Wadia Y.R. - Learning VMware vCloud Air

I wish to dedicate this book to both my loving parents, Ma and Paa. Thank you for all your love, support, encouragement, and patienceI know you need a lot of it when dealing with me! I would also like to extend my thanks to my best buddy and brother, Mitesh Soni, who not only taught me blogging and authoring but has also been a strong source of moral support and guidance ever since.

I would also like to thank the entire Packt Publishing team, especially Hemal Desai and Gaurav Sharma, for their excellent support, guidance, and patience. Last but not least, a special few who also made a difference towards the completion of this book in their own ways are Karthic Kumar, Nikhil Madhava, Dave Fitzjarrell, and Yashvardhan Vyas. Thank you for all your support.

And finally, to someone who really made a big difference in my lifemy knight in shining black armour. Miss you a lot, my Xena. Wish you were here.

"Lost, but not forgotten"

Anil Gupta (AJ) works as a technology consultant for VMware's System Engineering (Presales) team, which supports the Sales function of VMware. He is a vExpert 2014 and an active member of the VMware community. His industry experience includes working in a wide range of roles, such as system administration, architecture, consultancy, sales, presales, product marketing, partner management, team leadership, support, training, and software testing. Apart from VMware, he has worked with organizations such as Hewlett Packard, Avaya, and IGate.

In his current role, Anil is an expert in business development around virtualization and cloud solutions. He does this by helping customers identify the right and optimized solution for their infrastructure. He has implemented complex designs and incorporated his clients' existing infrastructure and applications. Anil has superior knowledge of formulating business sense to technology, which he also shares with the virtualization community on his blog at http://www.walkonblock.com. He has spoken at many events, such as VMworld, vFORUM, Partner Exchange, and various industry-leading events.

First and foremost, I would like to thank the author, Yohan Rohinton Wadia, for not only writing this amazing book, but also giving me an opportunity to be part of it.

Then, I would like to thank my parents, friends, and colleagues at VMware for their love and support.

Special thanks to Murad Wagh, the senior manager of VMware, for his mentorship and the encouragement that made me venture into new ideas.

I am also grateful to Bijal Patel from Packt Publishing for her continuous support during the review.

Ram Pradyumna Rampalli is a Technical Support Engineer at VMware and provides support for wide range of VMware Virtualization and Cloud solutions.

He has 4 years of experience in the technical industry, for a year and a half of which he worked at Avaya Telecommunications. For the rest of the period, he worked on VMware virtualization and cloud support.

I would like to thank Bijal Patel at Packt Publishing, who is the project coordinator of this book. She has been very cooperative throughout the review phase and all the hurdles that came along with it.

I would also like to express my gratitude and give thanks to my elder brother, Prathyush Ram Rampalli, for all the motivation and encouragement for this project.

My heartfelt thanks to the Packt Publishing team for giving me an opportunity to review this book.