To get the most out of this book

It is important to focus on identifying the benefits, complexities, risks, and related costs associated with building a complete automation engine, from the data center to the end user device, along with the applications.

To achieve this we will cover a diverse range of topics, beginning with advanced GPU configuration and their performance comparison to HPC and big data workloads running on the ever reliable vSphere platform which will help you to get the most out of this book.

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781789802160_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "If we can't connect using wget, download the .rpm."

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# cd /opt/serengeti/www/yum/repos/centos/6/base/RPMS/
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/mailx-12.4-7.el6.x86_64.rpm

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "We have to select the Install radial button and fill out the form with vCenter information and click Submit."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.