Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the following people for their support in developing and reviewing the material included. Thank you to our family and friends who supported our efforts in creating this work.

Thank you to the VMware Press team and the certification team, including Erik Ullanderson, Mark Brunstad, Jill Liles, Melissa Tuite, and Lisa Leong. Thank you to our team at Pearson Technology Group, including editor Joan Murray, our editor, and David Dusthimer, the associate publisher. Thank you to Marianne Bartow, our development editor, for her help in editing every chapter.

Thank you to the VCDX team for providing quotes and historical perspective for use in this book: Duncan Epping (VCDX-007), Wade Holmes (VCDX-015), Yvo Wiskere (VCDX-025), Frank Denneman (VCDX-029), and Chris Colotti (VCX-037).

Thank you to our deep-dive technical reviewers Michael Webster (VCDX-066) and Doug Baer (VCDX-019).

A special thank you for detailed review input goes to Duncan Epping (VCDX-007) and Aidan Dalgleish (VCDX-010).

Thank you also to additional reviewers who provided generous feedback: Craig Risinger (VCDX-006), Wade Holmes (VCDX-015), Mohan Potheri (VCDX-098), Phil Callahan (candidate), Jill Liles (VCDX Marketing Manager), and Cody Bunch (candidate). Thank you to our VMware management team as well.

It takes a large team to do this, and others have provided contributions besides those listed here. We thank them also.

John, Ben, Mostafa