About the Contributors
The following individuals also contributed to this book.
Forbes Guthrie (Chapter 4) is an infrastructure architect who specializes in virtualization. He has worked in a variety of technical roles for over 15 years and achieved several industry certifications, including VMware's VMware Certified Professional—Datacenter Virtualization (VCP2/3/4/5-DV), VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5—Datacenter Administrator (VCAP5-DCA), and VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5—Datacenter Design (VCAP5-DCD). His experience spans many industries, and he has worked in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and North America. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and business analysis and is a former captain in the British Army.
Forbes is the lead author of the first (vSphere 4) and second (vSphere 5) edition of the acclaimed book VMware vSphere Design, co-authored by Scott Lowe. He also contributed to Scott's book Mastering VMware vSphere 5. Forbes has spoken at VMware's own VMworld conference on the subject of design and vSphere 5.
Forbes's blog, www.vReference.com, is well regarded in the virtualization field and is aggregated on VMware's Planet V12n website. He is probably best known for his collection of free reference cards, long revered by those studying for their VMware qualifications. Forbes has been awarded the luminary designation of vExpert by VMware for his contribution to the virtualization community since its inception. His passion and knowledge have also been rewarded with the peer-reviewed top virtualization bloggers listing for the last five years.
Matt Liebowitz (Chapter 9) is an advisory solution architect with EMC Consulting with a focus on virtualizing business-critical applications. He has been a consultant and architect for over 12 years and has been working with VMware's enterprise virtualization products since 2002. Matt is an author of several books on virtualization, is a frequent contributor to the VMware Technology Network (VMTN), and has been an active blogger on virtualization since 2009.
Matt is honored to have been named a VMware vExpert each year since 2010 and also holds numerous industry certifications from both VMware and Microsoft. He maintains a virtualization focused blog at www.thelowercasew.com and is active on Twitter at @mattliebowitz.
When Matt is not out virtualizing the world, he is happily spending time with his wife, Joann, and his two kids, Tyler and Kaitlyn.
Josh Atwell (Chapter 14) is a vArchitect for VCE focusing on VMware and automation solutions on Vblock. Over the last 10+ years he has worked very hard to allow little pieces of code to do his work for him through various automation tools, especially PowerCLI. Josh is highly active in the virtualization community where he has led multiple technology-based user groups such as CIPTUG, VMUG, and UCS Users Group.
Josh holds both the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5—Datacenter Administrator (VCAP5-DCA), and VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5—Datacenter Design (VCAP5-DCD) certifications and enjoys working with others on preparing for their certification pursuits through the vBrownBag podcast. Never known for lacking an opinion, he blogs at vtesseract.com and talks shop on Twitter as @Josh_Atwell. When not helping folks with things that start with v, he enjoys spending time with his children and his supportive wife, who has made everything mentioned possible.