Preface

I joined VMware in May 2008 as the first presales engineer (Account SE is the industry term) in ASEAN for VMware strategic accounts. That was more than 6 years ago—a long time in the rapidly-evolving world of virtualization. I have been fortunate to meet many different customers in the ASEAN region. In a sense, the book documents the lessons that my customers and I have learned in their journey to the fully virtualized data center. It is very rare for customers to master the virtual world, both architecturally and operationally, part of the reason for this is that Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is not yet matured. The biggest reason, however, is the lack of an in-depth understanding of what exactly virtualization means to IT.

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