About the Authors

Most projects have to start somewhere as an idea, and this one was no different. Alan and I had discussed the idea of a PowerCLI book. When Sybex contacted us, our idea suddenly became a reality. As probably all first-time authors do, we horribly underestimated the effort that goes into writing a book like the one we had in mind. Luckily we had the good fortune to be able to attract some outstanding co-authors like Glenn, Arnim, and Jonathan. We hope that you, the reader, will enjoy reading this book as much as we did writing it.

Luc Dekens started many moons ago in the mainframe world as a system programmer. While the companies he worked for took Unix and Windows boxes on board, it was a natural evolution for him to expand into those areas. A couple of years ago Luc was impressed by a new scripting tool, Monad, that Microsoft was bringing to market. When the organization Luc works for was expanding their virtualization platform, he stumbled on a product called VI Toolkit. It was ideal for automating many administrative tasks. Luc was admitted to the early beta program and started contributing to the ever-growing PowerCLI community. After attending VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, where he did a session together with Hal Rottenberg, Luc started a blog (http://lucd.info). During VMworld 2010 in the US and in Europe, Luc did a session together with Alan Renouf that sold out several times.