Who Should Buy This Book

This book is for IT professionals looking to strengthen their knowledge of constructing and managing a virtual infrastructure on vSphere 5. While the book can also be helpful for those new to IT, a strong set of assumptions is made about the target reader:

• A basic understanding of networking architecture
• Experience working in a Microsoft Windows environment
• Experience managing DNS and DHCP
• A basic understanding of how virtualization differs from traditional physical infrastructures
• A basic understanding of hardware and software components in standard x86 and x64 computing