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About the Author

Abhilash G B (@abhilashgb) is a virtualization specialist, author, designer, and a VMware vExpert (2014 and 2015) who specializes in the areas of data center virtualization and cloud computing.

He is a VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Data Center Administration (VCAP4-DCA and VCAP5-DCA). He also holds other VMware certifications, including VCP3, VCP4, VCP5-DCV, and VCP-Cloud. He has been in the IT industry for more than a decade and has been working on VMware products and technologies since the start of 2007.

Abhilash is also the author of two other well selling books: VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook and Disaster Recovery Using VMware vSphere Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager, both by Packt Publishing.

He is a passionate author willing to contribute more titles to the VMware community and an aspiring engineer keen to indulge in designing and creating great solutions.

I would like to dedicate this book to my family. Without their patience and support, this book would not have been possible.

Thanks to Kenneth van Ditmarsch, Andy Grant, and Daniel Langenhan, the technical reviewers of this book, for their valuable input.

Special thanks to Harsha Bharwani (acquisition editor), Karthik Vedam (project coordinator), Athira Laji (content development editor), and Mrunmayee Patil and Shruti Rawool (technical editors) for their support during the course of writing this book.