Essential Virtual SAN second edition paper copy available now!

As of today Essential Virtual SAN second edition paper copy is available on Amazon! If you are interested, pick it up today, note that there is also a Kindle version out there if you prefer that!

VMware’s Virtual SAN has rapidly proven itself in environments ranging from hospitals to oil rigs to e-commerce platforms. Along the way, it has matured to offer unsurpassed features for data integrity, availability, and space efficiency. Virtual SAN 6.x makes all-flash storage practical for even more use cases, while radically simplifying IT operations and supporting the transition to hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI). Now, the authors of Essential Virtual SAN (VSAN) have thoroughly updated their definitive guide to this transformative technology. Writing for vSphere administrators, architects, and consultants, Cormac Hogan and Duncan Epping explain what Virtual SAN is, how it has evolved, what it now offers, and how to gain maximum value from it.

If you want to order the paper version at a local book store, here are the ISBN details:

ISBN-13: 978-0134511665
ISBN-10: 0134511662

For those like me who love reading research papers by developers you might want to head over to labs.vmware.com as today a new version of the VMware Technical Journal was released, the summer 2013 edition. You can download it as a PDF on the website, or you can read the individual articles straight in your web browser. Below you can find the Table of Content, and the titles convinced me that these are worth reading. Personally I found the “Redefining ESXi IO Multipathing in the Flash ERA” very interesting… but I suggest you read all of them as it typically gives a good hint of what VMware engineering is working on now / or in the future!