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Extra Cyber Monday deal… 4.1 book also $ 4.99

Duncan Epping · Nov 27, 2011 ·

As multiple people asked for it, Frank and I decided to also put the 4.1 HA/DRS Deepdive on sale. Just wanted to inform you guys about it. Here are the links:

Once again, please note that Amazon might charge extra if you are ordering/downloading the book from remote. We cannot control that unfortunately. Never the less, this is the bargain of the year for sure when it comes to VMware books. No book out their with such an insane price/page/quality ratio!

Crazy Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal!

Duncan Epping · Nov 25, 2011 ·

I know there are a lot of crazy deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but this is most definitely the deal of the year for all virtualization fanatics! I just changed the price of the vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive to $ 4.99 and 3.99 for my European friends. Yes that is correct…. Less than 5 dollars for over 350 pages of deepdive material. Keep in mind that this is a limited offer, Tuesday the 29th the price will be back to “normal” again.

Pick it up, tell your friends / colleagues / family about it… Here are some snippets from Amazon reviews, but with 15 extremely positive reviews, all of them 5 out of 5, you know you can’t go wrong:

“If you’re serious about VMware virtualization this book is a must have. Regardless of you responsibilities with a virtual infrastructure administrative, or from a architecture design stand point this book is for you. The level of knowledge and depth which Frank and Duncan cover in this book about the new clustering changes in vSphere 5 is priceless. The design tips and illustrations through the book are truly invaluable. There is no other book that gets into the core of all the different vSphere 5 cluster technologies like this one, ”

“Whether you are longing to know about the transition from AAM to FDM, best practices for DRS and DPM, or are just curious to know what those acronyms are this is a great book! The technical detail, practical advice, and comparative analysis throughout make this book one of the most thorough yet concise technical books available.”

“The book is clearly written, a special emphasis has been made on making it understandable even for professionals like me who use vSphere daily yet do not manage huge production environments. The book goes to great lengths to explain all possible scenarios and I found answers to all my questions. Not only sections cover HOW the technology works, but the authors go as far as explaining the way the algorithms are working, which will satisfy the curiosity of everyone.”

“The complete explanations provide the reader all of the information needed to make informed decisions about their environment with excellent diagrams to provide strong visual reinforcements.”

** Please note that Amazon charges for remote downloads, so the price listed here is “local” download price without the additional Amazon transfer costs **

Spanish vSphere 5 book out now!

Duncan Epping · Oct 20, 2011 ·

A week ago Jose Maria Gonzalez contacted me and asked me if I wanted to write the foreword for his new book. I said yes and asked when it needed to be ready. Jose responded well… asap, preferably tomorrow so I started working on it. I finished quickly and Jose translated it to Spanish. So if you are Spanish speaking and looking for a book on vSphere 5 head over to and pick it up. It is a DIY book, in other words self-publishing. Before I post the link, let me congratulate Jose with his new book… I hope it will be a huge success!

http://www.josemariagonzalez.es/2011/10/20/libro-descubre-domina-vmware-vsphere-5.html

I want to a share a bit of the foreword for those who don’t speak Spanish, as I feel strongly about this…

Maybe even more important, consider sharing your experiences with the rest of the world like Jose did, and hopefully will continue to do. I do realize that not everyone enjoys writing books or blogging, but there are other ways of sharing knowledge and expertise. For example, join your local VMware User Group (VMUG) and host a session about your experiences and the challenges you faced. If there is no local VMUG consider starting one! (Bring back the UG in VMUG.)

When you start sharing your experiences you will quickly discover that there are more people facing similar challenges, you will meet new people who will give you their opinion on how to design, implement and maintain a virtual infrastructure. By giving back to your local, or even the global, community you will gain more knowledge than you could have ever imagined. Sharing your expertise might lead to opportunities you never expected to have, but more importantly it is what will enable you to be the best you can possible be.

Want to win a free vSphere 5.0 Clustering Tech Deepdive book?

Duncan Epping · Sep 14, 2011 ·

Want to win a free vSphere 5.0 Clustering Tech Deepdive book? Check out Frank’s article today…

If you follow me on twitter you might have seen my tweets I’m in Copenhagen for the last two weeks. Many followers asked me what I was doing there and were speculating it had something to do with VMworld. Even when replying I was visiting a customer, most dismissed these answers. Unfortunately yesterday Rasmus Jensen (@rasmusjensenvp) spotted me and I’m guessing the secret is out. So I might as well come clean. Yes I’m camping outside the Bella Center.

Top 10 books sold at VMworld US

Duncan Epping · Sep 10, 2011 ·

Top 10 books sold at the VMworld Bookstore. First of all congrats to everyone who made the top-10! I guess you can say we are really happy with this result especially because we don’t have a huge publisher helping with advertizement/distribution. Go Self-Publishing! Go DIY!

vSphere 5 Clustering Tech Deepdive (Self Publishing)
Admin VMware SRM Pre-Publishing (VMware Press)
VMware vSphere PowerCLI Reference (Wiley)
VMware vSphere Design (Wiley)
Cloud Comp w VMware vCloud Director (Usenix)
vSphere 5 DVD Training (TrainSignal)
Cloud Virtual Data Storage Networking (Taylor & Francis)
VCP VMware Certification for vSphere 4 (McGraw Hill)
Managing VMware Infrastructure w Win PowerShell (Sapien)
VCP4 Exam Cram (Pearson)

I want to thank DigitalGuru.com for giving us the opportunity to sell our book at VMworld.