Simon Gallagher - VMware Private Cloud Computing with vCloud Director

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This book is dedicated to my wonderful wife Carol; without her continual and selfless support this book would not have been possible. Also to our amazing children, Abigail and Rowan, for not asking too many times why Daddy spends all day and night in his office with all those computers.

Simon

I'd like to thank my VMware colleagues, Alan Renouf, Christope Decanini, Gary Blake, Timo Sugliani, Adrian Roberts, Duncan Epping, and Kamau Wanguhu, for their editorial contributions to some of the chapters in this book. John McGinn, Stephen Beck, and Matt Stepanski from my management team for being supportive of me taking part in this project. And last but not least, my partner, Jane Seabridge, for putting up with me working late evenings and weekends.

Aidan

Acknowledgments

I'd like to thank Aidan Dalgleish of VMware for his technical editing and for writing two chapters of this book. Thanks also go to Dan Senior, Brian Keats, and Michael Smith of Colt Technology Services for the involvement in real-world vCloud projects; Stuart Thompson, Martyn Storey, Peter Holditch and David Hill. And a special thanks to Servers Plus, for excellent service in my hour of hardware need; and the entire London VMware User Group for their continued encouragement in the production of this book.

I'd also like to thank the Sybex & Wiley book teams for their patience and diligent efforts in producing this book.

Simon Gallagher

About the Authors

Simon Gallagher first read about VMware Workstation in a magazine article in 2000. He was instantly hooked and used it to build various complex network and server labs for his studies. Simon built his first ESX server at version 2.5 and, in his work for a managed services provider, built complex test and development environments for customers. Simon saw an opportunity to create a multitenant environment using ESX 3 to deliver customer solutions faster, cheaper, and more flexibly, so he ended up building a very early implementation of a cloud.

Simon has since gone on to work for some of the largest technology & service providers in the world (including VMware), designing and delivering cloud solutions for customers using VMware technology.

Since his university days, Simon has maintained a large and ever-evolving home lab environment. When he found you could virtualize ESX itself, he spent a lot of his own time and money on the various incarnations of his vTARDIS project ( http://vinf.net/vTARDIS ).

In late 2007 Simon began attending the London VMware User Group (VMUG) on the advice of a colleague and was impressed at the technical content and approachability of all the attendees. In 2011 he joined the steering committee for the London VMUG to assist with finding content and helped organize (and presented at) their first ever national UK event, which attracted over 300 attendees. He has been awarded and continues to blog and contribute to the London VMUG and the wider community. You can follow Simon Gallagher's blog at http://vinf.net and follow him on Twitter: @vinf_net .