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’ve had this question too many times over the last couple of weeks and instead of answering all of them separately I figured I would dedicate a blog article to it so that I can reference to that. Here we go: Q) Will the e-book version of the HA/DRS deepdive be available soon? A) No. We have decided that we [...]
I got a couple of questions around what I have been up to lately as some noticed there was a slight decrease in volume from a blogging perspective on yellow-bricks. (from 4 articles per week to 2-3 article per week) Well I have been reading up on my new role but on top of that also started blogging for the [...]
Want a free HA/DRS Technical Deepdive Book? Watch vChat 15! In Episode 15 of our vChat series, we have a couple of special guests with us whom I’m sure you would have heard of or if not met before, Frank Denneman and Duncan Epping. These guys embody almost all things deep-dive when it comes to vSphere and with the recent [...]
I received a very valid question this week from someone who bought our book. The question was as follows: On Page 35 it is mentioned that a Secondary Node is not automatically elected as a Primary if a Primary fails. It then goes on to state the conditions under which this does occur, one of these is if the primary [...]
I did not know about this, but someone pointed this out last week and I figured it was worth blogging about as this feature can potentially impact your design. (Think HA admission control policies and resource management) When you create a VM in an Org vDC which is defined as a Reservation Pool you can actually manually set the shares [...]
