Roman Levchenko is a Microsoft MVP, VMware vExpert, and systems architect working for a leading international IT integrator. He focuses mainly on Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, System Center, PowerShell, and Azure. Furthermore, he is certified as Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, MCS, MCITP, and VMware VCP6-DCV. As a technical reviewer, he has also participated in the making of some recent and well-known books by Manning. He runs his own blog, and you can follow him on Twitter at @rlevchenko to keep in touch and receive the latest news.
I am grateful to everyone with whom I have had the pleasure to work during this project: the team at Packt who found me and offered to take up the writing; Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso, the author of the previous editions, for being a technical reviewer together with Tomica Kaniski. I have worked nonstop on the book for the last few months and couldn’t survive without my family—thanks a ton for your support and love.
Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso is a former Microsoft MVP, international speaker, author, evangelist, and a subject matter expert in cloud, virtualization, management, and identity, working for Microsoft as a secure infrastructure architect for Asia Pacific, Greater China, India, and Japan.
He has more than 27 years of experience in the IT industry working with LBDMs, building trust, demonstrating business value, solving complex business problems, and transforming business strategy into technology utilizing existing and innovative technologies. He is a reviewer on this book.
It is always a challenge to maintain a work-life balance and I would like to thank my wife, Daniele, and my kids, Nicole, Lucas, and Matheus for their tremendous support, and for always pushing me to achieve my best. Since the last edition, VMM evolved with some important new features and I would like to acknowledge the great work that Roman Levchenko did by updating the book and getting it to its 3rd edition.
Tomica Kaniski is a Microsoft MVP for Cloud and Datacenter Management (since 2010). He is fully engaged with (but not limited to) Microsoft products and technologies. In his spare time, he plays the bass guitar and also likes to read and travel. He currently works in the telecommunications industry for VIPnet d.o.o. in Croatia (A1 Telekom Austria Group/América Móvil company).
I would like to thank my family for their patience and constant support.
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