An easy-to-follow guide full of handson examples of real-world design best practices. Each topic is explained and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive, there are more details on the concepts used. If you wish to learn about vSphere best practices and how to apply them when designing virtual, high performance, and reliable datacenters that support business critical applications to work more efficiently and to prepare for official certifications, then this is the book for you. Readers should possess a good working knowledge of vSphere as well as servers, storage, and networking.