Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

deep dive

vSAN 6.7 U1 Deep Dive book coming soon!

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Cormac and I decided to update the vSAN Essentials book. We added a whole bunch of extra info and also decided to rebrand it. “Essentials” did not really cut it, it is much more than that. Considering I just finished the Clustering Deep Dive with Frank and Niels, we figured this could be a nice addition to that series, complementing both the Host Deep Dive as well as the Clustering Deep Dive. We’ve received all the feedback from our reviewers, Frank Denneman and Pete Koehler, and spend various evenings digesting and processing it. Now it is just a matter of adding the foreword to the book, and then we can simply press: Publish. Hopefully, within 2 weeks, I will have a new article that details how you can buy the book!

The plan is right now to release the paper copy and the ebook at the same time, we will link the books, so those who buy the paper copy can buy the ebook at a discounted price. We will also make sure the ebook is priced very attractive, as we feel it should be the format of choice for everyone!

Books linked, buy paper Clustering Deep Dive get ebook for 2.95!

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We just managed to link the paper and electronic version of the Clustering Deep Dive. This means that if you buy the paper book today, you can get the e-book at a discount. This was something a lot of you have asked for, so we pushed it through. Unfortunately, it did mean we had to re-upload the book to a different back-end system and “history” is lost, so those who already bought the paper version of the book, unfortunately, can’t get the same deal. If you are interested in getting both versions, go here. Or click below on the book, or one of the other books I recommend reading 🙂


VMworld Video: vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive

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As all videos are posted for VMworld (and nicely listed by William), I figured I would share the session Frank Denneman and I presented. It ended up in the Top 10 Sessions on Monday, which is always a great honor. We had a lot of positive feedback and comments, thanks for that! Most importantly, it was a lot of fun again to be up on stage at VMworld talking about this content after 6 years of absence or so. For those who missed it, watch it here:

Also very much enjoyed the book signing session at the Rubrik booth with Niels and Frank. I believe Rubrik gave away around 1000 copies of the book. Hoping we can repeat this huge success in EMEA. But more on that later. If you haven’t picked up the book yet and won’t be at VMworld Europe, consider picking it up through Amazon, e-book is 14.95 USD only.


You asked for it: vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive ebook, now available!

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We knew when we released the paper version of the book that many would yell: What about an e-book? Although sales numbers of the Host Deep Dive and previous Clustering Deep Dive books have shown that by far most people prefer a printed copy, we decided to go ahead and create an ebook as well. It is not as simple unfortunately as simply uploading a PDF or an MS Word file. We had to spend evenings reformatting the book in an e-book authoring tool, compile it, review it, fix issues, compile again etc. Nevertheless, it is done!

So what we did is we just uploaded it to Amazon, and we made it available for 14,95 USD, or whatever that roughly converts to in your local currency in your local store. We also noticed there was a bundling option, so as soon as the ebook and the paper copy are linked you can buy the ebook alongside the paper copy for only 2,99 USD. (Linking the book may still take a couple of days, we’ve initiated the process with Amazon and are waiting for them to complete it.)

You wanted it, so go out and pick it up, right before the weekend! Also, note that we have both the ebook and the paper version available right now, we are working on linking the books, so you can get a nice deal for both versions. Also, I would highly recommend picking up the Host Deep Dive books as well, and while you are at it pick up the VDI guide, it is an excellent read! Amazon links are on the right side for your convenience.

Now Available: vSphere 6.7 Clustering Deep Dive book!

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Over the past couple of months Frank, Niels and I have worked ferociously to update the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive. Some of the material was already brought up to date to vSphere 6.0 U2, but the majority was never updated after vSphere 5.1. As you can imagine, this was a tremendous undertaking. Not only did we need to validate every sentence, all diagrams needed to be updated, and with the introduction of the HTML-5 Client also all screenshots had to be retaken. 

Now, just a couple of weeks before VMworld, we are finally at the point where we can press “publish”.

What can you expect? Well, we have said this with previous books, this is not a beginners guide! This is a deep dive, and we aimed to take you in to the trenches of vSphere Clustering technologies. We cover a multitude of different features, and for those who haven’t read the previous books expect the following features to be covered:

  • vSphere HA
  • vSphere DRS
  • vSphere Storage DRS
  • vSphere Storage I/O Control
  • vSphere Network I/O Control

We also have a chapter on stretched clusters, in this chapter we describe how to design and implement a vSphere Metro Storage Cluster, leveraging all of the knowledge gained in the previous chapters.

For your convenience, I copied/pasted some of the Amazon info below.

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  • Paperback: 566 pages
  • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (July 29, 2018)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1722625325
  • ISBN-13: 978-1722625320
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.3 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

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I hope all of you will enjoy the book as much as we enjoyed writing it. And before I forget, I want to thank my co-authors for the late night discussions, the hard work, insights and fun/laughter at times.

Get it while it is hot! (Look on the right side column for the links to the book!)