Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive, the book!

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In August we announced that we were working a secret project and let you guys in on it. The idea was to get it published through an official Publisher but due to several circumstances and a very tight deadline we decided to go the self-publishing route to make it available as soon as possible. So here it is, the moment both Frank Denneman and I have been waiting for…. it is finally available, the HA and DRS technical deepdive.

As of today “vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive” is available on paper via CreateSpace and Amazon. We are also working on getting a digital copy up for sale but that will more than likely be early 2011.

There is something I want to make very clear here as I have heard multiple people referring to this book as “Duncan’s Book”. This book was very much a joint effort. Frank has invested at least as much time in this project as I have, and probably even more. I want to thank Frank for his hard work and hope everyone realizes that it is our book and not my book!

We want to take the opportunity to thank our Technical Reviewers for their very valuable feedback and for keeping us honest; fellow VCDX Panel Member Craig Risinger (VMware PSO), Marc Sevigny (VMware HA Engineering), Anne Holler (VMware DRS Engineering) and Bouke Groenescheij (Jume.nl). A very special thanks to Scott Herold for writing the foreword!

For those who can’t wait, order it via CreateSpace or Amazon now. (Please be so kind to leave a review

This is the description of the book that is up on CreateSpace/Amazon:

About the authors:
Duncan Epping (VCDX 007) is a Consulting Architect working for VMware as part of the Cloud Practice. Duncan works primarily with Service Providers and large Enterprise customers. He is focussed on designing Public Cloud Infrastructures and specializes in bc-dr, vCloud Director and VMware HA. Duncan is the owner of Yellow-Bricks.com, the leading VMware blog.
Frank Denneman (VCDX 029) is a Consulting Architect working for VMware as part of the Professional Services Organization. Frank works primarily with large Enterprise customers and Service Providers. He specializes in Resource Management, DRS and storage. Frank is the owner of frankdenneman.nl which has recently been voted number 6 worldwide on vsphere-land.com

VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive zooms in on two key components of every VMware based infrastructure and is by no means a “how to” guide. It covers the basic steps needed to create a VMware HA and DRS cluster, but even more important explains the concepts and mechanisms behind HA and DRS which will enable you to make well educated decisions. This book will take you in to the trenches of HA and DRS and will give you the tools to understand and implement e.g. HA admission control policies, DRS resource pools and resource allocation settings. On top of that each section contains basic design principles that can be used for designing, implementing or improving VMware infrastructures.
Coverage includes:

  • HA node types
  • HA isolation detection and response
  • HA admission control
  • VM Monitoring
  • HA and DRS integration
  • DRS imbalance algorithm
  • Resource Pools
  • Impact of reservations and limits
  • CPU Resource Scheduling
  • Memory Scheduler
  • DPM

We hope you will enjoy reading it as much as we did writing it. Thanks,

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Comments

  3. Just bought it, but would have preferred an eBook version. Any idea if this will make it to the Amazon Kindle store in the near future?

  5. @Steve: as the post say “early 2011 as a digital version”. Not sure if it will be epub or plain pdf. It is fully self-publishing so all the reformatting needs to be done by us, and it is a lot of work.

    @Claudio: Unfortunately no, the shipping timelines didn’t allow us to get it in Holland on time.

  8. Congratulations! Only one question, will this book be available on amazon.co.uk or other online stores in Europe?

    Thank you!

  9. I ordered it too… I even paid Amazon for express shipping. I can’t wait to get my hands on it. It’ll go right next to the toilet on the bathroom counter. Didn’t you know that is where all the best reading is done?

  10. Looking forward to reading it and will be placing an order. I value the teaching from both of you.

  11. Of course I’m biased, but having read most or all of this book I can say it does get pretty deep into the issues, and there is some good counter-intuitive knowledge in there.

  13. …Order confirmed….
    Can’t wait to complete my vmware-related library 😉 The topic is promising, I expect really DEEP water 🙂
    Cheers,
    joerg

  14. Will definitely pick up a copy, can’t wait to read. Thanks for all the work that went into it guys!

  15. Congrats to both of you. I’ve already ordered the book. Waiting for it. I hope the feedback is going to be good on this book (number of Sales) so you guys can start some more secret projects.

    Keep up the good work.

  16. Can’t wait to get it. I ordered it immediately. Shipping takes 18-32 days to Germany. Now I’m counting the days…

  17. On a VCP310 course, teacher says to us: “real man works in command line”. I guess now he would add this book to his requirements list 🙂

  18. Can’t wait to get it .. ordered it with faster shipping 8-12 days to germany 😉 .. keep up the good work! Thumbs up!

  21. Congratulations!!! from Seville (Spain). I bought it two days ago on Amazon and hope to receive the next week. It’s my first virtualization book in english 🙂

    Good job guys.

  23. Hi again,

    i received the book from US Amazon to Germany in only three days, too.
    Thumbs up! Thanks for this great book!

  24. Ordered the book and downloaded the PDF as well for best practices of HA.

    Keep up the good work. Really valuable information you guys are providing for the whole VMware community. Good Luck!!!

  25. Would love to see this book on the amazon uk site or even better on the UK kindle list!

    Great work, are you looking to do other deep dives for other areas of vmware products.

  26. Hi Duncan
    Any chance we can have this book on kindle version . Will be very handy.

    Mohammad