Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Book

Number 1 book at the VMworld Store this year was…

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The vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive! Thanks everyone for your support, we very much appreciate it!

How cool is it that an independent book hits the top of the chart two years in a row?! Frank and I are really pleased about this and we did not expect this at all. Especially not considering we also gave away a 1000 copies at VMworld for free. We want to thank our sponsors CloudPhysics and Fusion IO, and the MyVMUG people for hosting this give-away in their booth!

Oh by the way, my apologies to all vendors out there which had this massive queue (it was all throughout the solutions exchange) in front of their booth on Tuesday with people all waiting to get their free copy of our book. Thanks everyone for picking a up copy, don’t forget to check out the sponsors and don’t forget to sign up for your local VMUG.

90% of all vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive books sold are virtual

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I was just checking the sales numbers of the vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive and 90% of all vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive books sold on Amazon are e-book copies. Both Frank and I are heavy supporters of e-books and hence the reason we priced all of our books aggressively. Just some facts for the 5.1 book:

  • 100 pages extra content
  • Stretched Cluster section added and Storage DRS section fully rewritten
  • Over 3000 copies sold in under two weeks (wooohooooooooooo)
  • Over 200 paper copies sold at VMworld
  • Available on paper for just $ 24.95
  • Available as an ebook for just $ 7.49
    (location based pricing so may vary)
  • Yes this book contains all 5.0 info with call-outs to what has changed in 5.1!

While we are at it, I just enabled the vSphere 5.0 Clustering Deepdive book for the Kindle Lending Library. But for $ 4.99 you can’t really go wrong. The 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive is still available for only $ 0.99, and there might just be another opportunity to pick it up for $ 0.- next week between the 11th and the 13th of September.

Virtualization Changes Everything: Storage Strategies for VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing

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A long long time ago Vaughn Stewart reached out to me and asked me if I wanted to write a foreword for his book. When Vaughn told me the topic I knew this was going to be a hit! For several reasons it took a while for the book to be released but now it finally is available. Vaughn and Michael Slisinger did an excellent job and I would recommend everyone who is interested in storage / virtualization / cloud to pick it up. I love the fact they went the self-publishing route and decided to make it available for $ 19.95 (print) and just $ 9.99 (location dependent pricing, so may vary) for the ebook! I would recommend everyone to pick up the ebook though, GO VIRTUAL!

I want to thank Mike and Vaughn for the opportunity to write the foreword, and congrats on the release… I hope you will sell millions.

Storage is a foundational component in the support of virtualization and cloud computing – and it is dynamically evolving. It is an aspect of the datacenter that is all-too-often overlooked, but without storage, there is no data, and without data, there is no cloud. Virtualization Changes Everything, by Vaughn Stewart and Mike Slisinger, examines the evolutionary influence of host virtualization and cloud computing in breaking storage deployment out of outdated silo models and into a dynamic, flexible hosting environment. Virtualization Changes Everything reviews common goals and challenges associated with providing storage service with cloud computing, and addresses each through the application of advanced storage technologies designed to scale in order to support the ever-expanding storage needs of the future. The examples within the book are pulled from real-world experience, and often involve the integration of multiple innovative technologies. If you are looking for measured guidance on high availability, efficiency, integration and performance for the storage in your cloud, then this book is for you!

 

vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive promo was a huge hit!

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Thanks to each and everyone of you who took the time to download the vSphere 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive kindle copy during our promo days. Over 6000 downloads in just 2 days is nothing short of amazing. Frank and I were talking about this promo opportunity a week ago for the 4.1 book and never anticipated on these kind of numbers. We expected a couple of hundred copies to be given away, maybe close to a 1000, but definitely not 6000+. Just some facts about this promo:

  • 175+ retweets of my tweets
  • 600+ tweets
  • 30.000+ people reached
  • 6000+ Kindle copies

We were shocked, we anticipated on a couple of hundred copies, maybe close to a 1000, but never did we anticipate on 6000 kindle copies being downloaded. Thanks to everyone who helped driving this. All the tweets / facebook and G+ mentions helped with this huge success.