Monday, November 18. 2013
Free Ebook: Continuous Delivery β What It Is and How to Get Started
Continuous delivery allows you to get new features and capabilities to market quickly and reliably. But what is this methodology, really, and what's required to get started? This new, introductory ebook will share: What continuous delivery is β and isn't Why continuous delivery is important to your business How to get started with the cultural technological changes required to practice continuous delivery
Thursday, November 7. 2013
New Book - Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms
More than 55% of the world's server systems are now virtualized, and 50-60% of today's critical business applications are built with Java. Information about optimizing virtualized systems running Java is critical β and it's remarkably scarce.
Often, there's a mindshare gapβ between VMware vSphere administrators and Java developers, who have fundamentally different knowledge and experience.
Now, the world's leading expert in Java enterprise virtualization bridges the gap between these fields, offering both the theory and practical solutions that vSphere and Java administrators need to optimize large-scale Java-based systems.
Both a reference and a performance cookbook, Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms will be indispensable to all technical professionals and IT managers responsible for Java performance in virtualized enterprise systems.
Emad Benajmin provides detailed case studies, specific technical advice, troubleshooting help, up-to-date FAQs, and much more. You'll learn how to correctly size, scale, and rationalize virtualized Java platforms; and tune VMware vSphere for the unique challenges of large Java applications.
Benjamin addresses crucial technical issues such as Java garbage collection, and helps you modernize Java application architecture using in-memory databases β preparing your applications for both Big Data and Fast Data. Whether you're virtualizing Websphere, Weblogic, Tomcat, or any other Java-based enterprise application platform, this guide will help you get all the performance, utilization, reliability, and manageability you're paying for.
Expected December 2013 - Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms
Friday, October 25. 2013
New Book - VCP5-DT Official Cert Guide (with DVD): VMware Certified Professional 5 - Desktop
- Master VMware VCP5-DT exam topics
- Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes
- Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks
- Practice with realistic exam questions on the DVD
- Installing and configuring all the key components in your VMware View
- Understanding storage of virtual datacenters and virtual machines
- Creating, configuring, and optimizing virtual desktops
- Understanding how local mode and kiosk desktops fit into the environment
- Learning the key components of your View environment and how they work together
- Providing direction and encouragement to schedule, take, and pass the exam
- Comprehending how to configure and optimize Windows desktops for a virtual desktop environment
- Leveraging GPOs to improve a VDI environment
Wednesday, October 2. 2013
Get a free copy of the vSphere Design Pocketbook
The vSphere design consideration is a platform for industry experts to share their learned lessons to the broader audience. In this book, over a 100 tweet-sized design considerations are listed grouped in various categories, such as Host design, cluster design, network & security.
Each author is listed with his or her twitter handle so you can easily add them to your twitter stream to receive more useful tips about managing your virtual infrastructure. The book was published and distributed for free at VMworld by PernixData.
You can still get a free copy of the vSphere Design Pocket e-book at Pernixdata.
Monday, September 23. 2013
Now available as Rough Cut - Networking for VMware Administrators
Overview
Increasingly, virtualization administrators and architects must have a deep understanding of networks. However, many have come to virtualization from other IT backgrounds, and do not have the knowledge they need to interact effectively with network specialists or solve problems with virtual networks. Networking for VMware Administrators fills this crucial gap, illuminating the core concepts required to "speak the language" of networking, and showing exactly how they apply to VMware vSphere.
- Physical networking: concepts, models, Ethernet, hardware, protocols, VLANs and routing/Subnetting
- Virtual switching and how it differs from physical switching
- vSphere standard and distributed switch concepts, terminology, configuration, and design
- Third party switches, including Nexus 1000v: architecture and overview
- Storage networking: use cases, design, and configuration
- Other design scenarios: 1 Gb Ethernet, 10 Gb Ethernet, blade servers, converged traffic, and virtual NICs
Upcoming Book Release β Networking for VMware Administrators by Christopher Wahl
Wednesday, September 18. 2013
Now available as Rough Cut - Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms
Overview
Often, there's a mindshare gapβ between VMware vSphere administrators and Java developers, who have fundamentally different knowledge and experience. Now, the world's leading expert in Java enterprise virtualization bridges the gap between these fields, offering both the theory and practical solutions that vSphere and Java administrators need to optimize large-scale Java-based systems.
Start Reading: Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Platforms by Emad Benjamin