Luc Dekens - VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration

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To Mom and Dad: I can do this because of youthank you! Matt

To my family, friends, and colleagues: This took quite a bit of our time away. Luc

For Ellen, my wife, my inspiration, and my best friend Brian

To my family, thanks for waiting for me to complete this during all those evenings when there were far more interesting things for us to do. Im back now Jonathan

To my family, for letting me do another one of these Glenn

To my children, you motivate me to be the person you believe I am Andrew

Thanks to the other authors on this book for making this book, and for being open to (most of) the feedback from the technical editor (feedback given in efforts to make functionality and features even better). And thank you, Gentle Editor, development editor Mary Ellen Schutz, for the guidance and wrangling throughout. LucD, thank you for what you do for the community, and for bringing me in on this project. Thank you, Jeffrey Snover, for risking life, limb, and career to make the great changes at Microsoft that then brought PowerShell, and a new attitude, to the world. Thanks also to the Microsofties responsible for PowerShell, and to those from VMware who have made PowerCLI a great product. And, to my wife, thank you much for tolerating the hours and days of me, locked in the office, poring over the manuscript and codeIHLY.

Matt

Thanks to my fellow authors and all the people at Sybex who were involved with this book. And a special thanks to our Gentle Editor, the little old lady from Wisconsin, development editor Mary Ellen Schutz. She had to organize all this geek talk into the book youre now holding in your hands. I would also like to thank all the people from VMware who produced such a great product, especially the PowerCLI Development Team in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Carter Shanklin, who made this product what it is today. Thanks also to Pablo Roesch; although we arent developers, we appreciate the drive with which you help us evangelize this wonderful piece of software. And finally, thanks to Jeffrey Snover and the PowerShell Team at Microsoft. Without PowerShell, none of this would have been possible. You shook the automation world!

Luc

Id like to thank my wife, Ellen, the love of my life, for patiently supporting me in my ambitions and endeavors, and my children, who bring me such happiness and joy. I would like to thank my parents for their kindness and love and for enabling me to reach my potential.

Id like to thank Chad Hancock for igniting my desire to learn and grow because of his passion for teaching and empowering his students. Id also like to thank the other authors for believing in me and allowing me this opportunity to write with them.

Brian

Thanks to the other authors for their contributions, especially for helping answer some of my queries. Particular thanks to our development editor Mary Ellen Schutz for taking us on again, despite the experience she had with us the first time around (!), and steering us on the path to getting the book complete. Thanks to Matt Boren for really keeping me on my toes with the quality of my code. Also to John Williams for producing so many great soundtracks that helped me concentrate during the late nights getting this stuff done.

Jonathan

Id like to thank my wife, Kristine, and children, Zachary and Emma, for being awesome. This was a tough one, but with your understanding and support we did it, again. I would also like to thank Luc for getting the band back together for one last ride. It was an honor and privilege to be invited back into this cabal of automation ninjas. Finally, I would thank all the thousands of professionals with whom I continue to interact. Together we are really making a difference, and moving the needle. Keep it up, gang, and be nice to each other in the process.