Forbes Guthrie & Scott Lowe 
VMware vSphere Design 

Achieve the performance, scalability, and ROI your business needs

What can you do at the start of a virtualization deployment to make things run more smoothly? If you plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize v Sphere solutions in your company, this unique book provides keen insight and solutions. From hardware selection, network layout, and security considerations to storage and hypervisors, this book explains the design decisions you’ll face and how to make the right choices.

Written by two virtualization experts and packed with real-world strategies and examples, VMware v Sphere Design, Second Edition will help you design smart design decisions.

* Shows IT administrators how plan, deploy, maintain, and optimize v Sphere virtualization solutions

* Explains the design decisions typically encountered at every step in the process and how to make the right choices

* Covers server hardware selection, network topology, security, storage, virtual machine design, and more

* Topics include ESXi hypervisors deployment, v Switches versus dv Switches, and FC, FCo E, i SCSI, or NFS storage

Find out the ‘why’ behind virtualization design decisions and make better choices, with VMware v Sphere Design, Second Edition, which has been fully updated for v Sphere 5.x.

Sobre el autor

Forbes Guthrie, VCAP-DCD, (tweet @forbesguthrie) is a technical architect who specializes in virtualization and storage technologies. He is also a VMware v Expert and the creator of several popular virtualization reference cards. Forbes blogs at www.v Reference.com. Scott Lowe, VCDX 39, (tweet @scott_lowe) is a technical architect at VMware. Scott is a VMware v Expert and the author of Mastering VMware v Sphere 5. Scott also writes at blog.scottlowe.org, which attracts thousands of visitors daily.