Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Win a free vSphere 5.0 Clustering Book by leaving a comment…

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This month four years ago I created my own blog. Yes indeed, Yellow-Bricks.com had its 4th birthday this month. I want to thank all of you for contributing to the success of Yellow-Bricks by commenting / emailing / tweeting etc. As a token of my appreciation I want to give away 4 copies (paper version) of the vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive.

What do you need to do? Not much! Just leave a comment with a valid email address! On the 30th of this month I will announce the 4 winners who will be randomly picked, they will get a signed copy of the book!

Last but not least, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to each and everyone of you! Enjoy the holiday… I know I will.

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  7. Hey Duncan, keep up the good work. Ensure to get some rest for yourself. Merry Christmas! And a happy new year 2012! F

  11. vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive was awesome. I would love to have a copy of the vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive book. Have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

  12. Happy Holidays to you too, Duncan! Thank you for your continued hard work here at YB, this blog has saved my ass more than a few times now πŸ™‚

  14. Thank you Duncan, your blog and books have been beneficial to the community! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

  15. Thanks for your great blogs! Very merry xmas for you and your family. And the book: please make somebody else happy with it. I already own two paper copies of it (one at work, and at home) πŸ™‚ Love it!

  20. Merry christmas to you all and Duncan off course for his generousity.

    That 2012 be another virtual year with lots of VMWare hosts and servers.

    Greetz
    Jack

  26. If this book is anywhere near as good as the HA one then we’re in for a treat. πŸ™‚

    Thanks for all the work you put into this site and your book writing.

    Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.

  27. Great blogs, great books (Frank too!) and a great guy – Merry Christmas Duncan, thanks for all that you do for the VMware community

  28. Your site was one of the first with good technical information, and also now is one of the best.
    I’ve learned a lot about HA (but not only) by reading your posts.

    Thanks and Merry Christmas.

  29. Best wishes for 2012 for you and your family.
    Your site is our ultimate source of information for all things VMware.
    Continue doing this fantastic job !

  33. One of the best virtualisation blogs on the web. Can’t wait for the next year of posts!

  34. Holy Kaw! What a way to start off the year if I win. Many nights of sleeplessness as I engulf myself with everything this guide has to cover.

  40. Keep up the good work, yellow bricks number one again in 2012!

    Marco Broeken – ITQ

  54. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
    Congrats for the 4 years of Yellow Bricks!

  58. Thanks for all your hard work Duncan. You’ve found solutions to problems that most of us didn’t know existed.

  59. Happy birthday Yellow Bricks! Thanks for all the great content over the years Duncan, and Merry Christmas to you too!

  68. thank you very much Duncan for your blog posts and all these great books with some serious technical insights! I’m really wondering where you find the time to research and write all these great articles besides your job and the family.
    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family!

  71. esxtop was the reason that we(my team) started reading your blogs .. now we read for everything ha-drs, vcva,vcloud πŸ™‚ .. It has a inspiration to start our blog.. Good luck and Merry xmas ..

  73. Yellow Bricks is great, thank you for providing such a great resource.

    Merry Christmas.

  76. you can never criticize a man for the quality of his beer… but you can about the temperature of it. Merry Christmas y’all!

  80. Thanks Duncan For the best VM blog.
    Merry Christmas & Happy new year.
    All the best for 2012.

  81. Thanks for all the great info on your blog. Just used your ESXTOP how-to article to help a customer solve a performance issue with their custom app and perhaps close a pending Q4 ELA. Much appreciated! Merry Christmas.

  82. Love the site and keep giving us great information to combat this rough and tough virtual world.

    Thanks

  83. Hi,

    firstly thanks for this chance to win one of these copies. It has always been a pleasure and a huge value reading yellowbricks-articles.
    Keep on rocking and of course have an awesome cristmas!

    Greetings

  89. Great work Duncan! Already have the 4.0, would love the 5.0 πŸ™‚ Happy Holidays, and all the best!

  90. Thank you Duncan!
    I recently started working on virtualization and found “HA and DRS” extremely helpful, not to mention blog articles.
    I was reading an architecture design document at my company today
    and … found you name as author πŸ™‚

    Merry Christmas

  92. Thanks Duncan! You are awesome! I really appreciate your blog, your books and everything else you do for the community. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

  93. Thank you very much Duncan for all your great posts over such a long time!
    Merry Christmas to all!

  98. First time blog commenter here!! I recently took a vSphere class and the instructor raved about your book, HA DeepDive. Love the blog site too!!!!

  103. Love the books! Own the 4 version, and the 5 in kindle version. I would love a paper copy of the color version.

  106. It’s been an year since i left my long career in SAP Basis and started working on VMware . Got VCP certified, learning and doing amazing stuff. All this happened because of watching passionate people like Duncan working and contributing.
    You guys keep the standards high, which makes people like us to inspire, learn and contribute.
    You are my hero.

  110. Wish you a Blasting Chritmas and Happy New Year , your Links have given solutions during many time and have gained a lot of knowledge from it as well !!! Continue to share the knowledge πŸ™‚ …. Although i dont get a book i wanted to Thank you for your information sharing .

    With Regards
    Chandan Nagaraja

  112. Duncan,
    Thanks a lot for all the information you have enlightened us with over the years. Your blogs and and books have helped many over the years and I am sure will continue to do the same over the years. Happy birthday yellow-bricks.com !!

  113. Happy Birthday Yellow Bricks!

    This blog is a fantastic resource for many, and the hard work put into maintaining it, is appreciated.

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family!

  114. Merry Christmas, Duncan and Happy Birthday Yellow Bricks! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us in all the great Blogposts here!

  117. Happy Holidays to you and yours also Duncan. Your contributions to the VMWare community have made us understand this technology so much more in depth. Thanks for everything.

  119. thanks for all informations that your are sharing with the community. Happy birthday and Merry christmas.

  124. only thing i can say is thanks for all the great blogs, your site has been amazing source of info and helped me pass my vcp.
    wishing you and your family an amazing xmas, keep well and safe.
    yellow-bricks rock

    jit

  126. Keep up the good work. This blog is one of the best places to get good technical info on vmware products.

  128. I’d be more than glad of having a paper copy of it… Thanks for giving us a chance!! Merry Christmas!!

  129. Nothing beats the great book and this great blog. Keep it up and a merry christmas

  132. happy Hanuka!!
    thank you for great posts and for being such a great knowledge base for all VMware communities

  133. Merry Christmas and thanks for all the contribution, how about give one to a Chinese? πŸ™‚

  135. Many times the content on Yellow-bricks has provided the answer or clarification to a perplexing subject. Thanks for the abundance of info and I look forward to another year of reading.

  137. I Love your blog, it’s very professional and useful for all day work!
    Happy New Year and Happy Hanukkah from Tel Aviv!

  145. Nice blog and the helpful comments. Keep on this great job since its one of the best VM blogs out there.

    Stay safe and i hope you had a merry xmas.

  148. Prettige Kerstdagen en een gelukkig 2012!
    One of the sources I check for in-depth information. Keep up the good work.

  149. Yellow-Bricks is one of the sites I usually reference when trying to determine a solution involving VMware virtualization.

  153. Thanks Duncan.. Its very good idea to give a book.

    Its like cherry on cake with all the nice information you already share with us.

    Cheers,

    Rachit.

  156. I’m new here, and not so familiar with VM, but interested in it and the works here.

    I am enjoying the hard works…
    Thanks a lot and best wishes!

  165. Thank you very much for sharing your knowlege with us! Happy anniversary & merry christmas!

  166. It would be a great (although a little late) christmas gift from Santa Duncan πŸ™‚
    I hope one of these precious books will be mine.

    Best regards and happy new year to you and all your readers!

  167. Good website and great content!
    Thanks Duncan!

    with my best wishes and happy new year to you and all!

  169. Merry Xmas and a happy 2012, time to say you guys rocked in four beautiful years and the bricks has formed a wall by now.

  175. great initiative…Always a good reason to come back to this site, so much to learn, thanks mate for the knowledge sharing. That is what it is all about.

    Michael

  176. Wishing another wonderful New Year, living in hope I may be one of the lucky ones to get the book as this will certainly assist my VCP5 exam study as time is getting tight until 28th Feb even though seems miles away.

    Keep up the good work and may you have many more successful years.

  179. Thank you for your great content, keep the posts coming!

    Happy new year!

    BR
    Andreas

  189. Your books are great and I recommend them to any new engineer that comes to work at the company I work for.

    Congrats and thank you for all your efforts.

  192. Thanks for giving us this wonderful source in disguise of a blog. I must say, this one of main contributors (Yellow-bricks) which got my feet wet and interested in Virtualization arena. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

  195. Thanks for this great blog, the lot of infos you daily give and all your valuable knowledge!

  198. I’ve never commented
    I “just” always read all your work
    so thanks about that

    Roberto.

  201. First Merry Christmas.

    Secondly, I just attempted to purchase both the vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive and the vSphere 5.0 Clustering Book from Amazon to read using the Kindle desktop application. After 3 hours chatting on-line with a “Kindle Specialist”, I was refunded the full cost of the purchase as neither eBook was readable.

    The “Kindle Specialist” wasn’t sure why neither book was readable but they said they’d look into it.

  203. I am a regular reader, but this is my first comment, it might be worth it πŸ™‚

    Srečen božič in veselo novo leto !
    ( this is Slovenian, but I suppose everybody can guess the meaning – without google translator )

  204. 01001000 01000001 01010000 01010000 01011001 00100000 01001110 01000101 01010111 00100000 01011001 01000101 01000001 01010010 00100001 00100001 00100001 00100001

    (HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!)

    πŸ™‚

  205. Hey Duncan! Have been reading your blog for a while now. Great articles. Keep up the Good Work!.

    Happey New Year!!!

  206. Thanks for the blog and the book. Great resources! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

  211. Vsphere is amazing in and of itself, but without the tireless work of people like you Duncan, it could not possibly have the community it does. Thank you for always posting interesting and challenging topics about this every changing technology!

  219. Great site. I am using it as part of my VCP5 studies. One of the best VMWare web sites around. I enjoy reading your articles.

  220. Thanks for All these great articles, not to mention your books. Keep the good work on!

    Happy 2012.

  221. Duncan,
    At almost every session i attended at vmworld this year the speaker(s) reffered to “a blog at Duncan’s website” for more information.
    Its amazing to see that even in the international virtual community you have reached the level where they can easily leave out your last name and still everybody knows who we are talking about.

    Thanx for all the blogs and please keep them comming.

    Great 2012 2u2

  224. My favorite sites, thank you and keep rocking Duncan. Looking forward to 2012 for more great articles.

  225. Merry Christmas Duncan! Thanks for all your work on this blog, it’s become one of my daily sites I check, as well as a port-of-call when we encounter issues. Cheers!

  227. Late to the party but would love a signed copy of the book just the same! Thanks for all the useful posts and the work you’ve done for the community Duncan!

  228. Duncan,

    Thanks for all the intelligent posts on VMware. May you and your family have a blessed 2012.

  229. Hi Duncan,

    I always enjoy reading the blog posts and I appreciate your passion for the details. Thanks very much for sharing your knowledge with the community.

    Happy New Year!!!

  235. Thanks for the chance to win! We really appreciate the time & effort on this blog!

    Happy holidays!

  240. Hi Duncan,

    the yellow-bricks website is very good with contents wise and helps to keep a pace with VMware technology.Thanks and keep up the good work.

    Wish you & your family a Happy New year 2012.

    Thank you,
    Jayprakash

  241. Great blog, one of my favourite sites to stay up-to-date with the VMware technology!
    Happy 4th birthday, and happy new year!

  242. Happy new year! Great thanks for your posts – it is a great interesting resourse about virtualization!

  244. Here’s my comment too! Thank you for your effort on this blog and happy new year everybody! πŸ˜€

  249. Hi Duncan,
    I am VMware geek and VCP5. can i get copy of vsphere 5 clustering deepdive book for my next level VCAP certification. I Love VMware!!! you and frank dennamen doing great job.

  250. Hi Duncan,
    I purchased VMware vSphere 5 Clustering technical deepdive book from amazon. since my environment uses vSphere version 5.0. and i am started reading.