Luciano Patrão is a Portuguese professional who has established himself in Germany. With extensive experience in the field, he currently serves as a Senior Consultant and Solution Architect at ITQ, offering top-tier VMware infrastructure solutions. Luciano has previously held notable positions as a Technical Project Manager and Technical Lead in various consulting companies as a freelancer. Throughout his career, he has provided exceptional guidance and solutions to teams and clients in the areas of VMware infrastructures, Backup, and Data Recovery. Luciano is a VCAP-DCV Design 2023, VCP-Cloud 2023, VCP-DCV 2022, and VMware vSAN Specialist, He is also a vExpert vSAN, vExpert NSX, vExpert Cloud Provider for the last two years, vExpert Multi- Cloud 2023, vExpert for the last 8 years, and Veeam Vanguard for the last 6 years. For updates and insights, he can be followed on Twitter: [...]

Chapter - 1 Understanding Virtualization.- Chapter - 2- VMware and vSphere Overview.- Chapter - 3- System Requirements and Licensing.- Chapter - 4- Deploying vSphere Environment.- Chapter - 5 vSphere Networking.-Chapter - 6-vSphere Datastores.- Chapter - 7-Virtual Machines.- Chapter - 8-VMware vCenter.- Chapter 9-vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface (VAMI).- Chapter - 10- Datacenter and Clusters.- Chapter - 11 vCenter Datastores.- Chapter - 12 Managing Datastores.- Chapter - 13 vSphere Storage Policies and Encryption.- Chapter - 14 vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS).- Chapter - 15- Advanced Configuration with vSphere Distributed Switch.- Chapter - 16- Configuring LACP in vSphere Distributed Switch.- Chapter - 17 vSphere Advanced Features.- Chapter - 18 vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS).- Chapter - 19 vSphere High Availability (HA) .- Chapter - 20 vSphere Proactive HA.- Chapter - 21 vSphere Fault Tolerance.- Chapter - 22 Virtual Machine Snapshots.-Chapter - 23 Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) Mode.- Chapter - 24 Host Profiles in vSphere.- Chapter - 25 VMware Hot Add & Hot Plug.- Chapter - 26 Direct Path I/O Passthrough.- Chapter - 27 Add a USB device to vSphere.- Chapter - 28 How to reset the vCenter root password.- Chapter - 29 vCenter Update/Upgrade.- Chapter - 30 vSphere Lifecycle Manager .- Chapter - 31 vSphere Backup and Disaster Recovery.- Chapter - 32 VMware other products.- Chapter - 33 VMware Certification Overview.-Chapter - 34 Final Chapter: Embracing the Future of Virtualization with VMware vSphere.