What Is Covered in This Book

This book is written with a start-to-finish approach to installing, configuring, managing, and monitoring a virtual environment using the VMware vSphere 5 product suite. The book begins by introducing the vSphere product suite and all of its great features. After introducing all of the bells and whistles, this book details an installation of the product and then moves into configuration. This includes configuring vSphere's extensive networking and storage functionality. I wrap up the configuration section with sections on high availability, redundancy, and resource utilization. Upon completion of the installation and configuration, I move into virtual machine creation and management and then into monitoring and troubleshooting. This book c....