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Hal Rottenberg's new book "Managing VMWare Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell"  is coming to SAPIEN Technologies this month.  Pre-order yours today at ScriptingOutpost.com.

VMware is the king when it comes to virtualization. Windows PowerShell has gotten huge accolades as an extremely powerful tool for automation of IT tasks. These two technologies make a lot of sense together, and VMware is now making that happen with the release of their VI Toolkit for Windows.
Hal's book is the perfect companion when learning how to integrate VMware and Windows PowerShell.

Keith Hill received some requests to turn his Effective PowerShell blog posts into booklet form which he has done.  He expects that this document will grow over time as he adds new items.

I am a big fan of the “Effective” series of programming books from Effective COM to Effective XML. Without trying to be too presumptuous, I wanted to capture some of the tidbits I have picked up over the last couple of years using Windows PowerShell interactively and writing production build and test scripts. These items were written for PowerShell 1.0. Where appropriate I have added PowerShell 2.0 Update sections to discuss how the item is affected by the upcoming 2.0 release. As a final note, a number of the PowerShell code snippets shown use functionality from the PowerShell Community Extensions which can be downloaded from http://www.codeplex.com/PowerShellCX.

Via Arne Fokkema over at ICT-Freak.nl

I’ve reviewed Eric Siebert’s upcoming book. “VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration” is VMware above and beyond, a must read for every VMware believer.

As an experienced VMware Certified instructor, I’m involved in delivering VMware courses on a daily basis. I know how important it is to keep your students involved in a course. When you start reading this book, I can assure you, you will read it from A to Z. In the past three years I’ve seen lots of books. Eric Siebert did a great job with this one. He was able to write up topics varying from “installing” and “advanced configuration” in a clear and understandable way and put them together in this book.

I’m was one of the of the lucky bloggers who was asked to review Eric Siebert’s new book, VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration.

This book was written to cover all the various phases of implementing a virtualization project using VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 from the very initial planning stages all the way through designing, building, configuring, maintaining, troubleshooting and more. VMware has made it fairly easy to install and use their virtualization products but there’s a lot you need to know to properly setup your environment and to understand how everything works including the differences between physical and virtual servers. This book will walk you through the various stages and provide you with information and tips to guide you through them so you make informed decisions, utilize best practices and avoid common mistakes.

VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration By: Eric Siebert Last Updated on Safari: 2009/02/24 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub Date: May 21, 2009 (estimated) Pages: 500

Mike has rented out his advertisement space and is living in wealth now. He doesn’t have to earn his money with writing book anymore, so he’s giving them away. :-) You can download the first chapter of Mike's SRM book at RTFM-Education.

"This book will teach how install and configure VMware's Site Recovery Manager product. It also covers in detail the failover and failback processes - and I will guide you through step-by-step through the setup of the product. This book is not filled with project management padding that typifies a lot of IT books. It's practical and technical, and assumes you are already pretty familiar with VMware's Virtual Infrastructure products including ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5. In this book you will learn the strengths and weakness of the Site Recovery Manager product, and show you the common pitfalls and errors that can happen, and also more importantly why they happen, and how to fix them."

Update : Mike did it again, another Four Free Chapters from the Vi3Book are online.

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 VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) teaches readers how to plan for, implement, secure, maintain, monitor and troubleshoot a VI3 environment.

VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration By: Eric Siebert Last Updated on Safari: 2008/12/12 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub Date: June 26, 2009 (estimated) Pages: 400