Ventresco - VMware horizon niew 5.3 design patterns and best practices

Jason Ventresco is a 14-year veteran of the IT field, currently working for EMC2 as a Principal Solutions Engineer. In this role, he architects, builds, and tests the latest end user computing solutions to validate their performance and provide guidance to EMC2 customers and partners. Jason previously worked as a member of the Global Infrastructure team for FHI 360, and as an IT consultant for WorkSmart and Xerox Global Services. He has also published the book, Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2 , Packt Publishing .

Jason lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife Christine and daughter Amanda. He holds two degrees, a Master of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University, and a Bachelors of Science in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix. In his free time, he likes to travel, ride his WaveRunner, and is a Carolina Hurricanes season ticket holder. You can follow him on Twitter at @jasonventresco.

I would like to thank my wife Christine and daughter Amanda for supporting me throughout all phases of my career, including the many hours I spent writing this book. I love you both very much.

I would also like to thank my parents, Richard and Linda Ventresco, for supporting me and making me the person I am today.

I would also like to thank my fellow members of the EMC Solutions Engineering Team. Working with them has provided me with the experience and knowledge required to write books like this.

Joe Jessen is a veteran of the IT industry, and has held roles in private corporations, vendor, and consulting organizations. Joe has been involved with application and desktop delivery since 1996, setting the strategic direction for global organizations with their end user computing initiatives. With a heavy focus on virtualization, Joe has been an industry analyst in the end user computing and desktop virtualization space for The Virtualization Practice (www.virtualizationpractice.com) since 2009 and is the owner of a marketing strategy firm, Solutions 101 (www.solutions101.us).

Jason Langer works as a solutions architect for a VMware Partner in the Pacific Northwest helping customers achieve their data center virtualization and end user computing goals. Jason has obtained multiple levels of certification both from Microsoft (MCSE/MCSA) and VMware (VCP/VCAP) and brings 15 years of IT experience to the table. When he is not working at his day job, Jason is active in the VMware community as a member of the Seattle VMUG Steering Committee and generating content for his blog, virtuallanger.com.

Erik Nielsen is currently working in Harbor Freight Tools. He is responsible for managing the Enterprise Storage as the company transitions to a software-designed data center. Harbor Freight Tools is a national retailer with 475 locations in the US. Each retail store has two VDI desktops to access the corporate network. They are currently in the final phases of their VMware Horizon View 5.2 POC and are planning to enter into pilot testing in January 2014. Erik was also the technical reviewer for the book Implementing VMware vCenter , Packt Publishing . You can follow him at www.linkedin.com/pub/erik-nielsen/6/a79/88.

Mario Russo has worked as an IT Architect, a Senior Technical VMware Trainer, and in the pre-sales department. He has also worked on VMware Technology since 2004. In 2005, he worked for IBM on the first large Project Consolidation for Telecom Italia on the Virtual VMware Esx 2.5.1 platform in Italy with Physical to Virtual (P2V) tool. In 2007, he conducted a drafting course and training for BancoPosta, Italy, and project disaster and recovery (DR Open) for IBM and EMC. In 2008, he worked for the Project Speed Up Consolidation BNP and the migration of P2V on the VI3 infrastructure at BNP Cardif Insurance. He is a VCI Certified Instructor of VMware and is certified in VCAP5-DCA. He is the owner of Business to Virtual, which specializes in virtualization solutions. He was also the technical reviewer of Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2 , Packt Publishing .

I would like to thank my wife Lina and my daughter Gaia. They're my strength.

Mitesh Soni is a Technical Lead with iGATE's Cloud Services, Research & Innovation group. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer, Sun Certified Web Component Developer, and VMware Cloud Professional. He has been involved in Thought Leadership and Technology Evangelization via papers, seminars, wikis, and creating solutions related to cloud computing. Mitesh has worked on cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, VMware vCloud, CloudStack, and CloudBees. He has published papers in national and international conferences. He is a regular author of cloud computing related articles in Open Source For You Magazine. He shares his technology explorations at http://clean-clouds.com. He has worked on VMware vCloud Director Cookbook , Packt Publishing and interested in reviewing cloud computing related books.

I would like to thank my parents Prakashchandra Soni, Ranjanban Soni, and my sister Jigisha for all the support and motivation.