VMware is the blue 600-pound gorilla in the data center. If you have any exposure to virtualization in a corporate setting, then the odds are that you have worked extensively with VMware's product line.

Since early 2000s, VMware has had an ever-increasing presence in the data center, which started initially as a way to deliver more computing power in the same space through server consolidation. Then, VMware continued to grow as a way to provide faster server provisioning to meet the ever-increasing demands for rapid deployment.

And now, VMware is the fast, fault-tolerant, and highly available on-site data center cloud provider. Regardless of the reasons, VMware virtualization environments are here to stay in our data centers (at least in the short term).

Because of this, you will need to be able to leverage Chef to manage the configuration of all VMware virtual machines.

Since VMware deployments are such a common part of the traditional data center, I am not going to take...