VMware vSphere® Power CLI™ Reference
Second Edition
Luc Dekens
Jonathan Medd
Brian Graf
Glenn Sizemore
Andrew Sullivan
Matt Boren
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To Mom and Dad: I can do this because of you – thank you! – Matt
To my family, friends, and colleagues: This took quite a bit of our time away. – Luc
For Ellen, my wife, my inspiration, and my best friend – Brian
To my family, thanks for waiting for me to complete this during all those evenings when there were far more interesting things for us to do. I’m back now – Jonathan
To my family, for letting me do another one of these – Glenn
To my children, you motivate me to be the person you believe I am – Andrew
Thanks to the other authors on this book for making this book, and for being open to (most of) the feedback from the technical editor (feedback given in efforts to make functionality and features even better). And thank you, Gentle Editor, development editor Mary Ellen Schutz, for the guidance and wrangling throughout. LucD, thank you for what you do for the community, and for bringing me in on this project. Thank you, Jeffrey Snover, for risking life, limb, and career to make the great changes at Microsoft that then brought PowerShell, and a new attitude, to the world. Thanks also to the Microsofties responsible for PowerShell, and to those from VMware who have made PowerCLI a great product. And, to my wife, thank you much for tolerating the hours and days of me, locked in the office, poring over the manuscript and code – IHLY.
