Kuminsky K. - Implementing VMware vCenter Server

Konstantin Kuminsky (MCSE, MCSA, MCITP Enterprise, CCNA, and CCNA Security) is an IT professional with over 10 years of experience in different areas of the industry, including virtualization, networking, and security. His experience includes support of Tier 3 datacenters, management of private clouds, administration of second- and third-level help desks and on-call support, and the deployment and support of various redundant systems and environments with high security requirements.

This book wouldnt have been possible without the support of my family. I would like to thank all my family members for their patience and encouragement during this and other projects. Most importantly, I would like to thank my parents for all that theyve done for me. This work is worth it because of their love and understanding.

Erik Nielsen is currently working for Harbor Freight Tools. He feels that working for a fast-growing company that is moving to become a 100 percent virtualized is challenging as the company is constantly moving to the latest and most stable configuration of an evolving software-defined datacenter platform.

NetApp and Dell|EMC are the two companies that allowed him to learn, as he previously worked for both these companies as a Professional Services Engineer.

You can read more about him at http://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 the 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 P2V on VI3 infrastructure at BNP Cardiff Insurance.

He is a VCI certified instructor of VMware and is certified in VCAP5-DCA.

He is also the owner of Business to Virtual, which specializes in virtualization solutions.

He was also the technical reviewer of the book Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2 , Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my wife Lina and my daughter Gaia. Theyre my strength.

Anish Varghese (Panthalani) has been working in the field of IT infrastructure for about a decade now, developing an expertise in VMware, Windows, Linux, and Web hosting. He has earned certifications/completed training in VCP, MSCE, RHCE, CCNA, and ITIL, and is an expert in many technologies. Whether it be IBM X series, Blade Centers, servers, or Enterprise applications; Anish has expert knowledge of all of them. He has expertise in VMware ESX/ESXi, vCenter, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange 2007/2010, MSSQL, DNS, DHCP, and so on. He is also well versed in backup solutions such as Symantec Netbackup, VEEAM, EVAULT, and PHD Backup.

After completing his B.Sc. degree in Electronics, he completed his postgraduate education at Cochin University of Science and Technology. Then, he joined Religare Securities of Ranbaxy Group, where he was in charge of the Kerala zone, and he later moved on to JRG Securities as an IT Officer. He currently works with UVJ Technologies, Calpine Group as Senior Systems Engineer, where he handles remote infrastructure management as a part of the Global IT team.

He has spent a lot of his time training people on the intricacies of VMware, sharing his valuable experience with fresh talents in the field. He has also been an expert technical blogger (http://blog.techmaniac.in/) for many years and has been the forefront of solving technical issues for the online world in the field of IT infrastructure.

I would like to thank all my friends and family members who have been a great encouragement and who have supported me in completing the reviewing of this book. I just cant imagine what I would have done without you all.