This book covers materials that were previously not documented and topics that needed experts’ opinion. I knew that behind every author there are many people involved who help to make the book possible. What I did not expect was the generosity shown by so many folks to ensure that I completed this book! Besides the four reviewers, I would like to specially thank the following individuals:
The VMware vRealize Operations product team:
- David LaVigna, Director, Product Management
- Sam McBride, Senior Staff Engineer
- Tom Findling, Staff Engineer
- Dave Overbeek, Group Manager, Technical Marketing and Enablement
- Hicham Mourad, Staff Technical Marketing Manager
- James Ang, Senior Manager, R&D
The VMware vSphere product team:
- Ravi Soundararajan, Principal Engineer
- Anne Holler, Principal Engineer
- Guolin Yang, Staff Engineer
- Emre Celebi, Staff Engineer
- Seongbeom Kim, Staff Engineer
- Fei Guo, Staff Engineer
- Haoqiang Zheng, Staff Engineer
VMware Asia Pacific management:
- Sanjay Mirchandani, SVP and GM
- Mike Sumner, Senior Director, Systems Engineering
VMware ASEAN management:
- Ron Goh, VP and GM
- Santoso Suwignyo, Senior Director, Technical Services
- Colin Png, Senior Director, Marketing
- Leslie Ong, Director, Singapore
The VMware Global Support Services team:
- Ramprasad, Senior Staff Technical Support Engineer
The VMware CTO Ambassador group:
- Ben Fathi, CTO
- Paul Strong, CTO, Global Field
- Kevin Lees, Principal Architect, Global Center of Excellence
- Shannon Schofield, Program Manager, Office of the CTO
Others:
- Tessa Davis, Systems Engineer, ASEAN, VMware
- Prasenjit Sarkar, Solutions Architect, Global CoE, VMware
- David Nelson, Director, Academy Program
- John Arrasjid, Senior Consulting Technologist, Office of the CTO, EMC