The authors walk us through
the installation of each of the products in detail(they even include
screenshots of the installation process) in the first chapter. In the
second chapter, they cover different types of storage and how to use
them in an ESX environment. In the third chapter, they cover recipes for
configuring networking for ESX. In the fourth chapter, they cover the
important topic of resource management.What I really liked about the book is that in the
fifth chapter, they present a bunch of really useful command-line tools.
I
wish they covered at least a part of the different APIs (for example:
vSphere PowerCLI) that are provided by VMware but may be they plan to
cover these in a future edition of the book.