About the Authors
Forbes Guthrie is an infrastructure architect who specializes in virtualization. He has worked in a variety of technical roles for over 14 years and achieved several industry certifications including VMware Certified Professional–Datacenter Virtualization (VCP2/3/4/5-DV) and VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5–Datacenter Design (VCAP5-DCD). His experience spans many different 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 was the lead author of this title's venerable first edition, co-authored by Scott Lowe and Maish Saidel-Keesing. He contributed to Scott's acclaimed Mastering VMware vSphere 5 book. Forbes has also spoken at VMware's own VMworld conference on the subject of design and vSphere 5.
Forbes' 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 for the last three years in a row. His passion and knowledge have also been rewarded with the peer-reviewed top virtualization bloggers listing for the last four years running.
Scott Lowe is an author, a blogger, and a consultant focusing on virtualization, networking, storage, and other enterprise technologies. Scott is currently a technical architect at VMware, focusing on virtual networking; previously he worked as a technologist at EMC Corporation.
Scott's technical expertise extends into several areas. He holds industry certifications from Cisco, EMC, Microsoft, NetApp, and others. He's also one of the few people who have achieved the status of VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX); Scott is VCDX #39. For his leadership and contributions in support of the VMware community, Scott is a four-time VMware vExpert award recipient (2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012).
Scott has published numerous articles on virtualization and VMware with a number of different online magazines, and he has been a featured speaker at numerous virtualization conferences as well as VMworld. Scott has spoken at four consecutive VMworld conferences (2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012). In addition to contributing to the first edition of this book, he has three other published books: Mastering VMware vSphere 4, VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant Reference (with Jase McCarty and Matthew Johnson), and the best-selling Mastering VMware vSphere 5, all by Sybex.
Scott is perhaps best known for his acclaimed blog at http://blog.scottlowe.org, where he regularly posts technical articles on a wide variety of topics. Scott's weblog is one of the oldest virtualization-centric weblogs that is still active; he's been blogging since early 2005.
Scott lives in the Denver, Colorado, area with his wife Crystal, his two youngest sons (Sean and Cameron), and his Chinese exchange student (Tim).
Kendrick Coleman is an infrastructure architect focused on enterprise datacenter technologies. In his daily role, he is responsible for being a design and integration expert on many VMware products. Kendrick holds the following VMware certifications: VCP3/4/5-DV, VCAP4/5-DCD, VMware Certified Advanced Professional 4–Datacenter Administration (VCAP4-DCA), and VCP5-Cloud as well as being a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). Kendrick has also been recognized as a VMware vExpert (2010, 2011, and 2012) for his contributions to the VMware community.
Kendrick's blog, www.kendrickcoleman.com, is known for having various articles focused on vSphere network design, free VMware tools, step-by-step tutorials, and vCloud Director. Year after year, it's ranked as an influential virtualization blog. Kendrick has spoken at three consecutive VMworld conferences (2010, 2011, and 2012) and continues to travel the country to speak at VMUGs and other trade shows.