Christmas is coming so Cormac and I figured we would do something special for everyone, after a long debate we decided to make the vSAN Essentials book available for free. Note that this is the “Essential Virtual SAN” book which was published by VMware Press / Pearson and is based on the 6.2 version of vSAN. The book however is still very relevant today, and of course we are considering doing an update of the content to either the latest release, or maybe even to an upcoming release. You can read the book online (which is what we recommend), but you can also download it as PDF, EPUB or MOBI format. Basically you can read it anywhere, anytime and using any device. Nice right!?!
We used the Gitbook platform to publish the book and decided to leverage the beta version of gitbook as it looks very clean and makes the content easy to read online. Also, I have used the gitbook platform in the past for the HA Deepdive, and I wanted to give back by beta testing their platform. Ah well, instead of rambling on, here’s the book:
If you find anything unusual, please leave a comment here. Hope you will enjoy it, and appreciates us (the authors) giving back to the community. If you do then I hope you will consider donating to charity, the amount doesn’t matter, all help is welcome! I personally support Hardcore Help Foundation, and I hope you will considering doing the same! A donation of 10€ will provide clean, safe water to a family for two years. They need your help to reach out to more families in need.
Andras says
19 December, 2017 at 14:00Thank you very much and have a nice Christmas! 🙂
kisstib0r says
19 December, 2017 at 15:42Thank you! 🙂
Nish says
19 December, 2017 at 16:15Thank you very much and Merry Christmas 🙂
Al Rasheed says
19 December, 2017 at 16:16Thank you! Your kindness is appreciated!
virtual_vic (@Virtual_Vic) says
19 December, 2017 at 19:36As always, my brothers are being gracious in sharing their knowledge. Kudos and thank you Cormac and Duncan.
GLAUCO ROD. says
20 December, 2017 at 00:12Much appreciated
Christian says
20 December, 2017 at 07:01Tks for the share !
-Christian
wajihrehman says
20 December, 2017 at 07:15Thank you ,I read this book last year and it is one of the best reference. To be honest , entire vSAN course ( deploy and manage) seems to be build on this book! I am sure this book will benefit many engineers.
Fayaz Khan says
21 December, 2017 at 17:05Thanks.
Armin Celaa says
21 December, 2017 at 19:39Merry Christmas! Eddie lives !!!!
shiva kumar Bheema. says
22 December, 2017 at 06:47Thank you
Mikael Paavola says
22 December, 2017 at 08:47Thank you
Ozz says
22 December, 2017 at 12:22Thanks very much, Season’s Greetings!
Amr Essam (@AmrEssa59860608) says
22 December, 2017 at 21:44Thank you So much 🙂
Alexey Vekshin says
9 January, 2018 at 17:14Thank you!
Behnood Moradi says
7 September, 2018 at 23:41Thank you!