Liebowitz M. - Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere

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Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere

Matt Liebowitz
Alex Fontana

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Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere

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ISBN-10: 0-321-91203-9

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To Joann, Bean, and Katie MacAll of this is for you. I love you all very much!
Matt

To Laura, Joey-boy, Sissy, and SpudThis ones for you guys, but the next one will be just for me, j/k, I love you all very much!
Alex

Contents

Foreword

It is my privilege to introduce Matt and Alex, two humble and personable authors, with exceptionally brilliant minds when it comes to virtualizing business critical applications, and their new publication, Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere .

Ive been working passionately with VMware technology for more than a decade, starting when many people were having trouble understanding the value of virtualization, let alone the pending wave that both the GSX and the ESX platforms would unleash on the traditional world of IT. All these efforts afforded me many exciting opportunities and experiences from which I was able to successfully draw to defend an enterprise class virtual infrastructure design and become one of the worlds few VMware Certified Design Experts (aka VCDX-050) and actually join the VMware team in 2010. My current challenge, in the role of Performance Specialist within the Technical Marketing team, is to ensure that performance is no longer a barrier, perceived or real, to virtualizing an organizations most critical applications on their journey to the software-defined data center.

Throughout my career, Ive met many people but only a small number who truly share my same passion for technology and change. The authors of this book, Alex Fontana and Matt Liebowitz, are two of those people whom I continue to see push the adoption of this business-enabling technology, often against those fearful of change. Their knowledge, experience, approach, and personal respect for every person they work and collaborate with have earned them a reputation as experts in their craft of virtualizing business critical applications.

It is my belief that in order to offer trustworthy guidance on virtualizing business critical applications, one must have experience. Alex and Matt have spent much of their careers architecting, building, operating, and troubleshooting these applications prior to the widespread adoption of virtualization. It is this hands-on, diverse experience, coupled with their in-depth knowledge of VMware vSphere, that makes the advice in this book extremely valuable.