Abhilash GB is an author, a designer, and a VMware vExpert 2014, who specializes in the areas of Data Center Virtualization and cloud computing.
He is a VMware Certified Advanced Professional in Data Center Administration (VCAP4-DCA and VCAP5-DCA). He has been in the IT industry for nearly a decade, and he has been working on VMware products and technologies since the start of 2007. He is also the author of VMware vSphere 5.1 Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
He is a passionate author who's willing to contribute more titles to the VMware community, and also an aspiring engineer always ready to indulge in designing and creating great solutions for customers.
I would like to dedicate this book to my wife and my parents. Without their patience and support, this book would not have been possible.
Thanks to the technical reviewers Andy Grant, Kenneth van Ditmarsch, and Daniel Langenhan for their invaluable inputs.
Special thanks to Nikhil Chinnari (Acquisition Editor), Harshal Ved (Project Coordinator), Govindan K (Content Development Editor), and Shashank Desai and Menza Mathew (Technical Editors) for their support during the course of writing this book.