Preface

When were we were originally approached to write this book, the first and most obvious question that we asked was "why should we do that?" However, on reflection, we both thought about our personal experiences with the product and the real world differences it made during times when we needed to troubleshoot performance problems or report on capacity trends. We also thought about our customers for whom we had either demonstrated vROps or run knowledge transfer sessions, and how only after a few hours, the energy in the room changed as people began to grasp the power and concept of how vROps could benefit them on a daily basis.

The second reason for writing this book was because we noticed that in some environments that had the product deployed, many of the concepts, terminology, and settings were not understood well enough. As a result, customers were not getting the maximum value from their investment simply because they weren't familiar enough with the product. There is a lot of great documentation for the product, but like most other product documentation, it is generally very thin on the why aspect. For example, why should I enable some containers for capacity management and not others? Through this book and our blogs, we are making an attempt to fill this gap and to hopefully show the positive impact this product can bring to an environment.