
About the authors
Roman Levchenko is a Microsoft MVP, VMware vExpert, and systems architect working for a leading international IT integrator. He focuses mainly on Microsoft technologies, including Windows Server, System Center, PowerShell, and Azure. Furthermore, he is certified as Microsoft MCSE, MCSA, MCS, MCITP, and VMware VCP6-DCV. As a technical reviewer, he has also participated in the making of some recent and well-known books by Manning. He runs his own blog, and you can follow him on Twitter at @rlevchenko to keep in touch and receive the latest news.
Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso is a former Microsoft MVP, international speaker, author, evangelist, and a subject matter expert in cloud, virtualization, management, and identity, working for Microsoft as a secure infrastructure architect for Asia Pacific, Greater China, India, and Japan.
He has more than 27 years of experience in the IT industry working with LBDMs, building trust, demonstrating business value, solving complex business problems, and transforming business strategy into technology utilizing existing and innovative technologies. He is a reviewer on this book.
Since the last edition, VMM evolved with some important new features and I would like to acknowledge the great work that Roman Levchenko did by updating the book and getting it to its 3rd edition.