Mohammed Raffic Kajamoideen - VMware ESXi 5.1 Cookbook

Mohammed Raffic Kajamoideen (@VMwareArena) is a subject matter expert for VMware virtualization technology and works as a system administrator in VMware Inc. where he provides high-level technical guidance to support and implement VMware's virtualization products. He is an author, a technology enthusiast, and a blogger focusing on virtualization and cloud computing.

He has over six years of high-level knowledge in remote infrastructure services, consulting, designing, implementing, and troubleshooting VMware virtualization technology. He is well known for his contribution towards the virtualization community through his virtualization blog (http://www.vmwarearena.com).

He holds many specialized certifications from VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix, which includes VCP4, VCP5, VCAP4-DCA, VCAP5-DCA, VCP-Cloud, MCTS-virtualization, CCA, and MCSA. Prior to joining VMware, he has served other large organizations such as CGI, Infosys, and Microsoft as a virtualization support engineer and a subject matter expert.

I would like to thank my wife, Sahana Amreen, and my dear son, Rayyan Mohammed, for their support and patience throughout this project. Most of the work occurred on weekends, nights, while on vacation, and other times inconvenient to my family. I would also like to thank my parents, Kajamoideen and Bazriya Begum, for instilling in me a love for books and learning from an early age. I must mention my brothers, Iliyas and Moideen, and my sister, Thasleem, for their moral support throughout this book.

I would also like to thank my mentors, Sunil Patil and Manoj Ravikumar Nair, for all of their guidance throughout my career. Next thanks go to my friends and colleagues, Manopriya, Santhosh Ramamoorthy, Karthik Kannan Solomon, Lingeshwaran, Rajkumar, Venkatesh, Bhasker, Ajith Devaiah, Retheesh, Giri Ramanaiah, Ranjith Bolwar, Prakhar, Chetan, Shaik, Raj, Karthik, Suresh, Zaigui, Alfred, Mark, and Kandy, for providing all the support and friendship that I needed. Special thanks to my managers, Chanh Chi, Anand S, and Amit Ambast, for providing me with the support from my organization to complete this book.

Aravind Sivaraman is a virtualization engineer with over eight years of experience in the IT industry and for the past five years he has been focused on virtualization solutions, especially on VMware products. He holds different certifications from VMware, Microsoft, and Cisco and has been awarded the vExpert for the year 2013. He is a VMware Technology Network (VMTN) and Experts Exchange contributor and maintains his personal blog at http://aravindsivaraman.com/. He can be followed on Twitter at @ss_aravind.

He is also the technical reviewer for the book Troubleshooting vSphere Storage , Mike Preston , Packt Publishing .

I would like to thank and dedicate this book to my wife Madhu, my parents, and family members, who are always there for me no matter what, for all their unconditional support, and for teaching me never to give up.

Jason Langer works as a solutions architect for VMware Partner in the Pacific Northwest helping customers achieve their datacenter 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 that spans large enterprise and SMB. When not working during the day, he is active in the VMware community as a member of the Seattle VMUG Steering Committee, on Twitter (@jaslanger), and generating content for his blog (www.virtuallanger.com).

He is also the technical reviewer of the following books:

Alexzander Nepomnjashiy is an independent consultant and freelancer. He is particularly interested in the following IT technologies: Windows Server OSes administration, Microsoft SQL Servers internals, virtualization (VMware ESXi), OLAP, and business intelligence.

Fernando F. Rodrigues is an IT professional with more than 10 years experience in systems administration, especially with Linux and VMware. He is a system administrator who also focuses on programming (Perl, PowerCLI, Bash, and so on) and is currently learning Ruby and Python. He has experience in projects for the government sector and financial institutions. He is a technology enthusiast and his areas of interest include cloud computing, virtualization, infrastructure automation, Linux administration, and Raspberry Pi.

Timothy Smith has over 15 years experience in system administration and has been working with VMware products almost since the beginning. He is a VMware vExpert, and a VMware certified professional, and holds various Microsoft certifications. As an active blogger (http://tsmith.co), Tim has been actively testing and working with VMware vSphere and giving back helpful articles and posts to the community regarding various problems he has come across.