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The team who wrote this book
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working
at the International Technical Support Organization, Raleigh Center.
David Watts is a Consulting IT Specialist at the IBM ITSO Center in Raleigh. He
manages residencies and produces IBM Redbooks publications on hardware
and software topics related to IBM Flex System, IBM System x®, and IBM
BladeCenter® servers and associated client platforms. He has authored over
200 books, papers, and Product Guides. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering
degree from the University of Queensland (Australia) and has worked for IBM
both in the US and Australia since 1989. David is an IBM Certified IT Specialist
and a member of the IT Specialist Certification Review Board.
Jose Martin Abeleira is a Certified Consulting IT Specialist, and IBM Certified
Systems Expert Enterprise Technical Support for AIX and Linux in Montevideo,
Uruguay. He has been with IBM for 6 years and has 10 years of AIX experience.
During this time, he has worked for Global Delivery as a Senior AIX/UNIX
Administrator, Uruguay Service Delivery Center as a Senior AIX/UNIX
Administrator, and a UNIX/Storage Team Leader.
Kerry Anders is a Consultant for IBM POWER® systems and IBM PowerVM® in
Lab Services for the IBM Systems and Technology Group, based in Austin,
Texas. He is part of the Lab Service core team that implements IBM PureFlex
System and supports clients in implementing IBM Power Systems blades using
Virtual I/O Server, Integrated Virtualization Manager, and AIX. Previously, he
was the Systems Integration Test Team Lead for the IBM BladeCenter JS21
blade with IBM SAN storage using AIX and Linux. His prior work includes test
experience with the JS20 blade, and using AIX and Linux in SAN environments.
Kerry began his career with IBM in the Federal Systems Division supporting
NASA at the Johnson Space Center as a Systems Engineer. He transferred to
Austin in 1993. Kerry has authored four other IBM Redbooks publications, the
most recent being IBM BladeCenter PS703 and PS704 Technical Overview and
Introduction, REDP-4744.
Alberto Damigella is an IT Specialist working in the IBM Power Systems and
IBM Flex System pre-sales team for IBM Italy as a Customer Technical Support
(CTS) specialist. He regularly performs Power Systems presentations and
demonstrations, and he helps the sales team write technical descriptions and
system consolidation studies. He is based in Milan, Italy. Alberto started at IBM
as a Computer Aided Three-dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA)
pre-sales and post-sales specialist in 1985.