In May of 2011 we published our book through Usenix as part of the short topics series. When this book was released as an ebook, shortly after the paper version, it originally was more expensive than the paper copy. I contacted the people responsible within Usenix and asked them if they could do anything about it. As Frank and I went through the same procedure for our own book I explained what some of the benefits were of using a $ 9.99 price and Usenix told me they would discuss it internally. I just received the great news that the book has a new price of just 9.99 and is available on Kindle through the Amazon store. I hope everyone appreciates the effort we’ve put in to it and the fact that Usenix decided to lower the price to $ 9.99!
Here are the details:
Book #24, Cloud Computing with VMware vCloud Director, by John Arrasjid, Duncan Epping, Steve Kaplan Ben Lin, Michael Haines and Raman Veeramraju. This Short Topics book provides use cases, design considerations, and technology guidance to answer your questions about cloud computing. The primary intended audience is those interested in learning about VMware cloud computing products and solutions, but content on third-party technologies is also included where appropriate. Without diving overly deeply into specific design patterns, it provides insight into the tools to fit your design criteria and it explains the concepts used by vCloud ranging from Organization Virtual Datacenters to External Networks.
- Authors: John Arrasjid, Duncan Epping, Michael Haines, Steve Kaplan, Ben Lin and Raman Veeramraju
- Paperback: 136 pages
- Publisher: Sage/Usenix (May, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 978-1-931971-83-6
Sigh… should have held off on buying the book earlier. Oh well, it was a good read anyway.
Rats, I paid a fortune to get this imported to the UK, not to mention local tax
Great deal on this book -I’ve heard wonderful things about it.
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Just finished this one. This provides a good overview of vCloud Director 1.5, along with an explanation of how VCD fits into a cloud design.
Must admit that I’m still a bit lost on integrating isolated orgzanization VDCs with Active Directory. Specifically, I would like to add a vApp to my catalog, which consists of 2 VMs (one web server, one DB server) both running on Windows 2008 Server. Once installed, the application running on the VMs does not tolerate hostname changes, so it would be ideal to be able to deploy this vApp with the same VM hostnames across multiple isolated organization VDCs.
The problem is the application requires the VMs to be members of an Active Directory domain. Since no two hosts can have the same name on the same domain, it seems like we would be forced to install a domain controller in each isolated organization VDC. While possible, this seems like an unscalable solution. It would be much better if all of the VMs across the VDCs could be members of the same domain.
Is there anything I am missing in my understanding of this type of setup?