Brown Mike - VMware vSphere 6.7 data center design cookbook: over 100 practical recipes to help you design a powerful virtual infrastructure based on vSphere 6.7

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Mike Brown is an army veteran and full stack, data center engineer with over 10 years' experience in IT. At work, he's most comfortable on the data center floor with his laptop, a console cable, and a closed container of coffee. At home, he's the biggest cheerleader for his children at their football and basketball games or just while they're hanging out.

Mike has held many positions in IT, from help desk to systems administrator, to engineer and consultant. He can be found on Twitter at @VirtuallyMikeB. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in a variety of roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a solutions engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined data center products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.

Mario Russo is a senior solution architect at Atos, based in Italy. He has worked as an IT architect, a senior technical VMware trainer, and in the presales department. He has worked on VMware technology since 2004. He is a VCI level 2 certified instructor of VMware and holds the following certifications: VCAP5-DCA, VCP-Cloud, VMware Certified Professional 6 Network Virtualization (NSX v6.2), VCP7-CMA, VMware Certified Professional 7 Cloud Management and Automation, Nutanix Platform Professional AOS5 (NPP5), Zerto Certified Professional (5.0) Implementation Engineer, RecoverPoint Version 2.0 Associate, and Information Storage and Management Version 3.0. He has also acted as a technical reviewer for many books published by Packt Publishing.

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VMware is the industry leader for data center virtualization. This third edition of the Data center Design Cookbook covers VMware's vSphere 6.7 suite of products, which provides a robust and resilient platform for virtualizing server and application workloads. The features available in vSphere 6.7 simplify management, increase availability, provide security, and guarantee the performance of workloads deployed in the virtualized data center.

The VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook provides recipes for creating a virtual data center design using the features of vSphere 6.7 by guiding you through the process of identifying the design factors and applying them to the logical and physical design process.

The VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook steps through the design process from beginning to end. From the discovery process, to creating the conceptual design, to calculating the resource requirements of the logical storage, compute, and network design, to mapping the logical requirements to a physical design, and finally, creating the design documentation.