Book: Deploying the VMware Infrastructure

There’s a new book launched at VMworld Vegas 2008! This book is written by John Arrasjid(VMware), Daniel Conde(VMware), Karthik Balachandran(VMware), Gary Lamb(INX) and Steve Kaplan(INX).
You can pre-order the book via Digital-Guru, and here’s there description just to give you an idea: Deploying the VMware Infrastructure is an introduction to the world of VMware virtualization technology [...]

Practical guide to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

VMware released a 232 page PDF titled “A Practical Guide to Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery with VMware Infrastructure”
This VMware® VMbook focuses on business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) and is intended to guide the reader through the step-by-step process to set-up a multisite VMware Infrastructure that is capable of supporting BCDR services for designated [...]

Scalable Storage Performance PDF

I was just reading up on the PDF’s I gathered over the last couple of weeks and found the Scalable Storage Performance pdf extremely useful. It contains a good explanation about the queue depth setting and much more….
To reduce latency, ensure that the sum of active commands from all virtual machines does not consistently exceed [...]

Cisco and VMware best practice

A couple of weeks ago I received a cool PDF via email, this week it appeared online(source blog). Check it out:
The Source PDF:
VMware has collaborated with Cisco to produce a guide for deploying VMware Infrastucture 3 with Cisco switches. This guide covers the physical and virtual data network and storage network deployment considerations for ESX [...]