books – vBrownBag

#vBrownBag Summer Book-apolooza contest courtesy of @VMwarePress and @PacktPub

Posted on July 15, 2014April 2, 2016 by Philip McKraken

The #vBrownBag crew, thanks to VMware Press and Packt Publishing, is proud to bring you the 2014 Summer Book-apolooza. We have several great titles to give away to our listeners including: DevOps for VMware Administrators Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware Essential Virtual SAN (VSAN) VCAP5-DCA Official Cert Guide CCENT Practice and Study Guide CCNA Routing
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On The Road with vCO Book

Posted on March 14, 2012April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

I’ll be at the Austin vMUG tomorrow with some free copies of vCO book (hard copy / kindle). If you are in town, stop by and say hello. There are a number of other vMUGs in the works (San Antonio, North Carolina, and any others that’ll have me).

vCO Book – Kindle Edition Is Now Shipping

Posted on February 27, 2012April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

Well, honestly I’m not sure if shipping is the right word for an electronic book, but nevertheless, the electronic editions of vCO Book are now shipping. Kindle If you have it, drop a line, or link a picture & tell me what you think.

Pre-Review – Mastering VMware vSphere 5 (Scott Lowe)

Posted on November 3, 2011April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

Hot on the release of vSphere 5, Scott Lowe has released an update to one of the best general vSphere books on the market, Mastering VMware vSphere 5. Pre-Review I pulled down the kindle edition of this one about a week ago and moving through at a pretty good clip and wanted to share my
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Input Requested – vCO Book, Troubleshooting

Posted on September 26, 2011April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

Woot! So, blogging may be picking up again in the nearish future as I approach the end of the first pass on writing the vCO book. That said, I was hoping to get some input from the larger vCO using community on some bits of the book. That is, help me shape the vCO troubleshooting
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Come Talk vSphere Design with Scott Lowe – BrownBag

Posted on March 28, 2011April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

Scott Lowe will be along for this weeks BrownBag to talk vSphere Design, his new book, and anything else we can come up with. New Book? Yes, Scott, in combination with Maish Saidel-Keesing, and Forbes Guthrie have put together a tome of… well, vSphere Design awesomeness. Go read a sample chapter here, or order it
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2011 vSphere Reading List – Take 2

Posted on February 27, 2011April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

One of the questions I get asked most often is some variant of: “I’m new to vSphere, how do I get up to speed?” or “I’ve been using VMware for ages, but I want to take it to the next level, recommendations?” My most common answer, is read. Read lots, and read often. With that
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Spring Reading Pre-Review

Posted on February 14, 2011April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

It’s that time of year again, when all the hard work various folks in the community turn into tangible products. In this round we’ve some second editions of some popular books. Let’s dive right in: VCP4 Exam Cram Elias Khnaser (@ekhnaser) The VCP4 Exam Cram volume looks to be about the only game in town
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Pre-Review Cisco UCS: Complete Reference

Posted on June 30, 2010April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

It’s summer reading time again! The first item on my reading list this summer is none other than the “Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) (Data Center): A Complete Reference Guide to the Cisco Data Center Virtualization Server Architecture (Networking Technology)” (A mouth and a half full). From the first two chapters of the book, the
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Virtualization Reading List – Updated

Posted on April 6, 2010April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

Being that I will have quite a bit of downtime in the near future (a broken arm will do that). Here is what is currently on my reading list: Tribes – Seth Godin Not exactly virtualization, but as a blogger it applies. In sum: “Stop waiting, start doing.” Presentation Zen – Garr Reynolds Again, not
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Lot’s of Awesome in a Small Package pt. 2

Posted on November 30, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

It’s HERE! What is? The vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide, that’s what. Oh, and it’s all of $15.99 US. This book is all of the distilled virtualization knowledge from some of the heavy hitters in the virtualization realm: Thomas Bryant III Stu Radnidge Dave Mishchenko Alan Renouf Duncan Epping The book has evolved from the
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Book Review: Interconnecting Datacenters Using VPLS

Posted on October 13, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

Amazon just published my 4 star review of “Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS (Ensure Business Continuance on Virtualized Networks by Implementing Layer 2 Connectivity Across Layer 3) ” Before we get too deep into it, I need to be up front that while I LOVE Virtualization, I still flirt a bit with networking and the
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vSphere SDK – The Book!

Posted on October 7, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

I just received my copy of Steve Jin’s “VMware VI and vSphere SDK: Managing the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere ”, As I tech edited the book I’ll not post a long review, other than to say that the book is a good resource, and overall a good book. If you are, or will be programming
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Lot’s of Awesome In A Small Package

Posted on September 15, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

As LucD points out: When you attend a conference like VMworld you get lots of goodies pushed your way. With some of these you only realise when you are back home what you were given. The vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide is a good example of such a little gem that came my way during
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OnlineFlashCards VCP310 – Review Posted

Posted on August 17, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

Amazon just posted my 3 star review of OnlineFlashCards for the VCP310. You can read the entire thing here. I’ve quoted some bits of it here: When I received the product, it came in a shrink wrapped box. Odd I thought, considering this is an online product, what is the box for? I shook it
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Summer Reading Pre-Reviews

Posted on July 21, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

They’re here! What’s here? My summer reading, that’s what. I’ve recently received review copies of Eric Siebert’s “VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration”, Edward L. Haletky’s “VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security”, “Interconnecting Datacenters Using VPLS” from Cisco Press, and finally “VCP VMware 310” Online flash cards by John Traenkenschuh. They all appear to be great
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It’s Here! It’s HERE! Well, Almost – Pre-Order Hal’s Book

Posted on April 6, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

“Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell: TFM” Is now available for pre-order from Sapien In "Managing VMware Infrastructure with PowerShell", you will learn how to perform everything from simple ad-hoc reporting at the command-line ("are any of my virtual machines powered off?") to complex scripts to automate a massive deployment of hundreds of virtual machines.
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Required Reading. Yes, There Will Be A Test

Posted on March 12, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

There are now four, FOUR ATDG chapters available, HA ha ha! http://www.vi3book.com/index.php/component/content/article/83 I can’t say this enough, but if Virtualization is the new Religion, this is it’s bible, and should be required reading all about.

New Book! – VI3 Implementation & Administration

Posted on March 11, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

This book is now officially on my wish list. Dead tree, PDF, doesn’t matter. More and more companies are choosing to virtualize and consolidate their server environments with VMware to achieve smaller footprints and reduced operating costs, but optimizing the virtualized environment is nearly impossible without a solid strategy in place. This complete guide to
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Administering VMware Site Recovery Manager – Chapter 1 Now Available!

Posted on February 5, 2009April 2, 2016 by Cody Bunch

Mike Laverick is doing something cool… he’s starting to slowly release his SRM book, chapter by chapter. Today, was chapter 1 To celebrate the arrival of my first advertiser to RTFM. I would like to begin the process of slowly releasing my SRM book free to download. The SRM book will remain commercially available for
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