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