A couple of weeks ago Alan Renouf contacted me and asked me if it was okay to turn some of our best practices mentioned in the book into PowerCLI code. I thought about it for 0.00001 seconds and yelled: hell yeah! Alan worked on it for a couple of days over the last couple of weeks and this is the [...]
This is one of those days that you realize how quickly things can change… 3.5 years ago I worked for a small consultancy company in the south of the Netherlands. Today I work for the number 1 virtualization/cloud company in the world, VMware, and just published my 4th book with a 5th coming later this year. What a ride, what [...]
I was lurking around the Kindle website to figure out how to enable “Public Notes” as I would love to read comments on our book and figure out how we can improve the content. Some of the things that we wrote make a lot of sense to us but might not make a lot of sense to you. I encourage [...]
No it isn’t a late April Fools’ joke… And we never expected this to actually happen to be honest. Last week I had discussion about the ebook on twitter and people were convinced that ebooks are the way to go. I won’t deny that and I know Frank agrees with me on this as well but the fact of the [...]
After 14 emails with absolutely no reply whatsoever our book, vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive, popped up on both the German and UK version of Amazon. For those who haven’t ordered it yet through comcol.nl you can also get it here: Amazon.de Amazon.co.uk Sorry about the delay and I hope they will continue selling it for a very [...]
Not sure where this discount is coming from but I figured I would share it with you. You can pick up the vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Tech Deepdive for $ 17.96 on Amazon.com. That is about as cheap as it can ever get in my opinion. Pick it up. By the way, Frank and I are working on a [...]
I blogged about this almost two months ago and just on Luc’s blog that the release date has been set and the cover art was released. I wanted to remind all of you the book that is one of a kind, VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference: Automating vSphere. Release date: 28th of March Authors: Luc Dekens, Alan Renouf, Glen Sizemore, Arnim [...]
