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Holiday Stocking Stuffers for the VMware Admin

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I hope that your holiday’s are already in full swing! If you have a VMware Administrator on your holiday shopping list (or you are one and haven’t bought yourself a present yet) I recently came across a few books that may help.

vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive

A new book from Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman.  If you have every wanted more details on the ins and outs of vSphere HA and how Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) works, this is the book for you.  If you’re read either of their blogs, you know these guys are the perfect duo with the hands on experience to have written this book.

VMware ESXi: Planning, Implementation, and Security

A recent book from Dave Mishchenko.  With the the future releases of vSphere being offered as ESXi only, if you haven’t started thinking about how to upgrade your environment to ESXi, this is a great resource or that process.

(note: Amazon is an affiliate sponsor of this blog)

Return of the Virtualization Round Up

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Regular readers will have realized a couple of things:

  1. Posts have been a little slow lately…still adapting to family life and focusing on building out some new family infrastructure. I plan on getting back to a more regular posting habit within a few months.
  2. The Virtualization Round Up posts have stopped…they actually just move to a more suitable location, Twitter.  They are my tweets hash-tagged with #VRU.

Thanks to the wonderful search feature of twitter, you can now see the latest Virtualization Round Up Tweets on the sidebar (though the search results seem a bit unpredictable…).  You can also follow me to get the Round Ups in real time…

Welcoming Matthew

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Matthew - 4 Days Old
Matthew - 4 Days Old

VMworld is over, and my biggest concern was skirted…that Baby Mini-G (who was due just after Labor Day) wouldn’t arrive early while I was in San Francisco at VMworld.  Skirted…but just.  Matthew arrive the day after VMworld to both mine and my wife’s surprise. And after talking to the delivery nurse we’re glad we weren’t the subject of a local news segment for being in labor on Labor Day.  In retrospect, we both were unmotivated to do anything on Thursday…almost like something was preparing us for the long day on Friday…

So, he’s the reason why there hasn’t been any post VMworld posts here on the blog…been focusing on settling into life as a new parent and an official member of the sandwich generation.  Hopefully, once Matthew settles into a better sleep routine and I catch up on sleep there will be a bit more activity here…thought that may wait until I’m officially over my NPTO (New Parent Time-Off).