Andy Grant is a Technical Consultant for HP Enterprise Services. His primary focus is on datacenter infrastructure and virtualization projects across a number of industries, including government, healthcare, forestry, financial, gas and oil, and international contracting. He currently holds a number of technical certifications including VCAP4/5-DCA/DCD, VCP4/5, MCITP: EA, MCSE, CCNA, Security+, A+ and ASE HP BladeSystem. Outside of work, Andy enjoys hiking, action pistol sports, and spending time adventuring with his son.

Craig Risinger is a consulting architect and VCDX #006, who has been with VMware since 2004. His previous experience includes running help desks and small-shop, all-around, IT system administration. With VMware, he has helped to design virtualization infrastructures and operations for everything from small shops to defense contractors to Fortune 50 financial enterprises. His particular interests include performance management, storage design, and delivering clear and precise technical writing and training. He has had the pleasure of helping to review several books written by his colleagues, including those by Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman, John Arrasjid, and Mostafa Khalil.

Brian Wuchner is a senior systems administrator for a government agency. He has over 10 years of industry experience, with specialties in infrastructure automation, directory services, and data center virtualization. Brian holds the VCP 5 certification, and was awarded the vExpert title from VMware in 2011 and 2012. He can be contacted on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/bwuch), Twitter (@bwuch) or through his blog at http://enterpriseadmins.org.