About the Reviewers

Doug Baer is a Principal Architect at IT Partners in Tempe, Arizona. He works with customers to design, upgrade, and optimize IT infrastructure with an emphasis on virtualization, storage, and disaster recovery. His 19 years in IT span a variety of roles and industries. His job responsibilities have included directory services, network and storage infrastructure solutions, training and lab management, and system administration. Doug earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, and holds several top-level industry certifications, including VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) and HP’s Master ASE Converged Infrastructure Architect. He has been a session presenter and content contributor to the hands-on labs at VMworld conferences and regularly serves on the review board for certifying new Master ASE-CI candidates.

Michael Webster, VCDX-066 (@vcdxnz001), based in Auckland, New Zealand, is a VMware Certified Design Expert on vSphere 4 and 5 and vExpert 2012. He is the owner of IT Solutions 2000 Ltd. (founded in 2000), which delivers project management, ITIL-based VMware operational readiness, and technical architecture consulting services to government, enterprise, and service provider clients around the world. In February 2012, IT Solutions 2000 Ltd. was granted the VMware Virtualizing Business Critical Applications (VBCA) Competency, making it one of the first companies in the world to achieve this accreditation. IT Solutions 2000 Ltd. is one of very few companies world wide that is accredited to deliver projects for all the business-critical applications covered by the VBCA program (SAP, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MS Sharepoint, and MS Exchange). Michael has been using VMware products since the first versions of Workstation for Linux and has been designing and deploying VMware solutions since 2002 as a consultant or project manager. He specializes in the design and project implementation of virtualization solutions for UNIX-to-Linux migrations, business-critical applications, disaster avoidance, mergers and acquisitions, and public and private cloud. Michael has been in the IT industry since 1995 and has consulting as a project manager and architect since 2001. He is regularly called on to consult and speak on all aspects of virtualizing business-critical applications at events and for organizations across the globe. Michael also holds VCP-DT, VCP-Cloud, MCSE (NT-2003), and ITIL Foundation, and he is experienced in PMP and Prince 2 project-management methodologies. He is an avid supporter of the VMware Community and is the author and maintainer of the Long White Virtual Clouds blog (http://longwhiteclouds.com), which discusses all things related to VMware, cloud, and how to virtualize business-critical applications.