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vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide – Available in Europe

Alan — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:33:39 +0000

The vSphere Quick Start Guide is doing well, I don’t think we will quite take the Christmas Number 1 best seller slot but still, thanks to anyone who has purchased the book so far and a bigger thanks if you have left us a review or published a blog post, its always good to hear how people are finding the book.

After the release I had a few questions about when it would be released on the UK Amazon site, it seams that apart from sharing their name, these two sites do not have anything to do with each other, one would assume that once it was published on the US site it would soon make its way over to the UK site, that doesn’t seam to be the case.

Do not despair, we have now released it via LULU, a self publication site, you can now purchase the book and have it delivered very quickly from here for just…

£12.53 – no I am not missing a 0, that is correct, what a bargain price !

So, why not go their straight away and get all those stocking fillers, relative’s presents and buy yourself a copy or two while you are there.

If you haven’t yet read any of the reviews and would like a quick look for yourself then follow this link to the Amazon preview page.

Thanks Again !

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vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is here

Alan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:47:44 +0000

Its here, I’m an author, watch out JK Rowling !

Its been a while coming but the vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is now available to buy on Amazon (US), we are working at getting it on the UK site but I’m just pleased to see it out there and available to buy.

This book is a co-authored publication bought to you from some of the leading names in VMware bloggers and admins, and they also asked me to contribute too

The book is designed for you to carry around with you, its not a heavy duty full novel but more of a VMware admins help book which can be referred to when you are in the damp dark datacenter at 4am in the morning with no internet connection !

Having said that there is definitely something in there for everyone, whether you are new to VMware or a seasoned Pro.

Throughout the book you will find great tips, real life situations and numerous PowerCLI examples.

If you haven’t yet heard of this book then please read these wonderful comments already left on the Amazon post.

If you have read it then please, leave your comments along with the others.

Buy your copy now ! in fact buy two !

vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is here is a post from: Virtu-Al.
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vSphere 4.0 Quickstart Guide

Alan — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:05:26 +0000

For a while now I have been writing a book with a number of other people from the VMware community:

This book has been designed to be an affordable pocket size book, ideal for quick tips and how-to’s and of course it is full with PowerCLI examples for each of the tasks showing how PowerCLI is useful in every area of the virtual infrastructure.

The book is not available at the moment, we are still adding some final touches but please keep an eye out on my blog or if you are at VMWorld later this month you should be able to grab a copy.

For more information about this book check out Duncan’s blog post here

vSphere 4.0 Quickstart Guide is a post from: Virtu-Al.
Virtu-Al is one of the authors of VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration"

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ESX4 in Workstation 6.5.1

Alan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:15:00 +0000

I had tried this already as I don’t have any spare hardware at the moment but I just wanted to say a massive thanks to Eric, our test systems will live on !

A few weeks ago I filled a support request, because I couldn’t start a virtual machine on ESX4 while ESX4 was hosted on Workstation 6.5.0. ESX4 kept crashing at 95% during the VM Power On. An anonymous source just brought me up-to-date and whispered the following:

The WS 6.5 bug you noted earlier has been fixed. You will be able to run nested VMs under ESX 4.0 under WS 6.5.1, subject to the usual caveats (hardware virtualization has to be supported on your host for running the outer guest, and the inner guest is restricted to 32-bits). I can’t comment on release schedules, but it is only a dot-dot release, so it can’t be too far off.

Original post: http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/737-Running-ESX4-under-Workstation-6.5.1-will-be-supported.html

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VI4 Video’s

Alan — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:34:00 +0000

First rule of ESX4 is you cant talk about ESX4
Second rule of ESX4 is you cant talk about ESX4

But im just linking to another sight right ?!?

Just came across some VI4 / ESX4 videos that look interesting, also included is a look at the new vCenter (formerly VirtualCenter) 4.0 interface.

Original source at virtualisation.info

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Microsoft – Just plain nasty

Alan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:52:00 +0000

OK, until now I have had respect for Microsoft, I have just read this article and a few others and I have to say, that’s completely below the belt, they are resulting to nasty underhand tactics to try and steal the virtualisation market.

Just proves that they cant do it with there software which is more comparable to VMware workstation than VI.

I cant wait for VI4 to come out and really kick some butt.

Rant over !

I would be interested in what your thoughts are on this subject.

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More VI4

Alan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:30:00 +0000

Check out the following link which offers some nice VI4 videos explaining the following features:

VMware Fault Tolerance

VMware DVS

Host Profiles

More VI4 is a post from: Virtu-Al.
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Its coming…VI4

Alan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:05:00 +0000

Looks like VI4 is on the horizon and coming soon, there is a beta out there at the moment for a select few, some new features include:

64bit kernel and console operating system (COS)
clustered VirtualCenter Servers
ESX hosts profile management
cross-hosts virtual networking
8-way virtual SMP
virtual machines fault tolerance across multiple hosts (the famous Continuous Availability presented last year)
VMs and media library
alarms on physical hardware faults
access control on storage resources
configuration change tracking
full support for SATA local storage