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Space Adventure by Olivia Renouf (Aged 6)

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imageA little off topic for my blog but hey…. its my blog Smile

The other day my 6 year old daughter was at home with her Grandma and started writing some words onto a piece of paper, Grandma asked her if she was writing a book ?  From then on she was.

Once she had finished she drew some pictures and showed us all, she did a fantastic job.

Being the proud father that I am, I decided to make my daughter an author and used “iBook Author” to re-create her story, scanning in and using her original pictures.

So if you have children and an iPad make sure you go download my daughters book and let us know what you think.

Personally her mother and I think its amazing and my daughter is proud to be an author at the age of 6.

I wonder what the youngest ever author’s age is ?

Download

Download it for free here:: Make sure you hold it sideways to see it all –  http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/space-adventure/id499968729?mt=11

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HA and DRS Audit

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Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman are two of the biggest rockstars in the VMware Community, recently they wrote a fantastic book on HA and DRS, this can be downloaded for a fantastic price from here, if you dont have it then you are not a VMware admin !

But wouldn’t it be great if we could have our own little Duncan or Frank to carry around in our pocket and check our clusters out for HA and DRS issues and best practices – Well now you can – no I haven’t created bobble headed characters, instead I have created…..

The HA and DRS Audit Script

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PowerCLI Book Update

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As we announced in our post “We’re writing a book!”, Luc and myself started writing a PowerCLI book.
At about the same time I got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join EMC as a vSpecialist, how could I turn that down !

Now you don’t become a vSpecialist for free, I have been spending a fair amount of time in training, coming up to speed with VCE (VMware/Cisco/EMC) and travelling all over the globe.  The little time I did have spare was spent at home with my family.

As a consequence, our chapter-writing schedule failed miserably, something which I am ashamed of as Luc is doing a fantastic job.

And now, for the proverbial “silver lining”, have a look who agreed to help us out:

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Glenn Sizemore

Winner of the Scripting Games 2010 and vExpert

 Jonathan Medd

Microsoft Valuable Professional (MVP)

 Arnim van Lieshout

vExpert

In other words, the book will be now be written by “4 vExperts and a MVP” !

Can’t wait to read it 😉

We’re writing a book

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PowerCLI Some of you might be interested to know, Alan and Luc are writing a PowerCLI book.

We don’t have many more details at the moment but wanted to let you know, as we are both very excited (and nervous by the amount of work) about this project.

As you know we both live and breathe PowerCLI. And we want to share our knowledge to help others achieve the level of PowerCLI automation we both know is possible.

One thing you can expect from this book is a practical approach with examples galore, we aim to cover most of the common configuration/troubleshooting and reporting areas with easy to understand examples and explanations.

To answer some of your questions:

Q: What’s the title ?
A: Well, in the end we went for “VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere Administration”

Q: Why ?
A: We’re both crazy enough to think we can do this.

Q: When ?
A: Our publisher, Sybex, targets 2011 Q1

Q: What ?
A: Expect a practical, down-to-earth approach. We’re going to show you how you can manage all aspects of your vSphere environment with PowerCLI.

Q: Who are these guys ?
A: Alan, who recently joined EMC’s vSpecialist army, is well-known from his Virtu-Al blog, his UK VMUG appearances, as a co-host of the Get-Scripting podcasts and as the winner of the recent Script-O-Mania contest.
Luc, aka LucD, is known from the PowerCLI Community, his LucD notes blog, his Dutch VMUG and VMworld appearances and as the winner of the first PowerCLI Scripting contest.

Q: Where do these guys live ?
A: Alan, contrary to some rumours, is an English guy and lives in Wiltshire, UK.
Luc lives in Belgium and works in the Netherlands. The best of both worlds 😉