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Cormac Hogan is a Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO in the Storage and Availability business unit at VMware. Cormac was one of the first VMware employees at the EMEA headquarters in Cork, Ireland, back in 2005, and has previously held roles in VMware’s Technical Marketing, Integration Engineering and Support organizations. Cormac has written a number of storage-related white papers and has given numerous presentations on storage best practices and new features. Cormac is the owner of CormacHogan.com, a blog site dedicated to storage and virtualization. He can be followed on twitter @CormacJHogan. Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist working for VMware in the Office of CTO of the Storage and Availability business unit. Duncan is responsible for ensuring VMware’s future innovations align with essential customer needs, translating customer problems to opportunities and function as the global lead evangelist for Storage and Availability. Duncan is the owner of VMware Virtualization blog Yellow-Bricks.com and has various books on the topic of VMware including the “vSphere Clustering Deep Dive” series. He can be followed on twitter @DuncanYB. Acknowledgements We would like to thank our VMware management team, Christos Karamanolis and Yanbing Li, for supporting us on this project. A special thanks goes out to our technical reviewers from VMware: Frank Denneman and Pete Koehler. Thanks for keeping us honest and contributing to this book. Lastly, we would like to thank everyone who has been supporting us by buying this book, attending our sessions at VMUGs/VMworld, and visiting our blogs. We truly appreciate it

The realm of technology is one that has traditionally been constructed on silos. We tend to fragment our skills into very specific areas of expertise, even going so far as to isolate the very people who run data center and cloud operations into little buckets of focus and energy. I’d like to think that this, more than anything, was the root cause for such painfully slow progress towards realizing the dream of a fully software defined data center. I had always felt a bit stifled by this organizational fragmentation and thirsted for a way to put my hands on just about any solution that shows the promise of removing the burden of manual processes. Since you’re reading this book, I’ll make the assumption that you have had similar thoughts.

It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come in the virtualization industry. What was once considered a niche technology used only for development and testing is now used for production work- loads and even business-critical applications. The VMware vSphere platform is capable of sup- porting nearly any virtualized workload with very few obstacles standing in the way of close to 100 percent virtualization. Today’s workloads are more demanding than ever before. Email servers frequently require large amounts of memory and CPU resources in order to handle the large volume of email that we all deal with on a daily basis. Database servers often require large amounts of memory and storage resources, from a capacity perspective as well as performance, to meet the demands of a business. And newer technologies, such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), have intro- duced signii cant demand for resources in vSphere environments.

vSphere Upgrade describes how to upgrade VMware vSphere™ to the current version. To move to the current version of vSphere by performing a fresh installation that does not preserve existing conigurationsǰ see the vSphere Installation and Setup documentation. Intended Audience: vSphere Upgrade is for anyone who needs to upgrade from earlier versions of vSphere. These topics are for experienced Microsoft Windows or Linux system administrators who are familiar with virtual machine technology and data center operations.

Frank Denneman is a Senior Staff Architect at VMware R&D focusing on VMware Cloud on AWS. Frank is a VCDX (29) and co-author of the bestselling vSphere Clustering Deep Dive series. Frank presents on a regular basis at global virtualization events and has been a VMworld Top 10 speaker for five consecutive years. You can find his articles at www.frankdenneman.nl. Follow Frank on Twitter @frankdenneman. Niels Hagoort is a freelance Virtualization Architect with more than 15 years of experience. Niels has extensive knowledge in the field of designing, building and implementing complex enterprise IT infrastructures. Niels presents on a regular basis at global virtualization events and is a VCDX (212).

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vSphere Upgrade describes how to upgrade VMware vSphere™ to the current version. To move to the current version of vSphere by performing a fresh installation that does not preserve existing conigurationsǰ see the vSphere Installation and Setup documentation. Intended Audience: vSphere Upgrade is for anyone who needs to upgrade from earlier versions of vSphere. These topics are for experienced Microsoft Windows or Linux system administrators who are familiar with virtual machine technology and data center operations.