VMware vSphere 4.0 Implementation Book – READY FOR PRE-ORDER
As you can see by the image bar at the top of this blog post – this week my book on vSphere4 has been listed on Amazon for pre-order. The book has been been placed on a Fast-Track programme internally to McGraw-Hill. At the moment the book is in what they call “copy edit” phase. So essentially the writing has stopped, and its in the hands of the publisher. It’s been proof-read a number of times – but goes through round of checking, and prep work ready to roll through the printers factory. When they have done that round of checking – it will be my last chance to make any tweaks. I’ve got about 2 pages of A4 notes to impleament and couple of images to add – but nothing major. For example this week I discovered some ESX hosts which had fan/heat problems – and of course, vSphere4′s “health status” was alerting me to this fact. I wanna put that image into the book to show how vSphere4 has much better hardware awareness than previous versions.
Before I start work on the new SRM book in September – I’m gonna put some PDFs together to cover the new ChargeBack, AppSpeeed and ConfigControl systems that were release a couple of weeks ago…
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August 1st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
We REALLY WANT to wait until February 2010 to read this book…at least that’s when Amazon says it will be out.
By then most really serious people will have already migrated.
August 1st, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Any chance you will bring a few copies to VMworld ?
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
Well, a couple of things. The Feb, 2010 date is a highly conservative one. If your a publisher like McGraw-Hill you need to give your customers rock solid dates they can depend on. Book that’s promised and then delayed kills that relationship. That said, my contacts at McGraw-Hill have said, that the book could be released before then. So its really about setting expectations. The publishing industry operates by its own schedules and standards after all. Personally, I could have rushed the book out in May/June if I’d gone down the route of self-publishing such as LULU. But I felt I owed it myself to give this book as wider distribution as possible – and do that you need a publisher like McGraw-Hill, and distributors like Waterstones, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
I had discussed with McGraw-Hill the idea of an limited run “authors edition” of the book – that would have been released at VMWorld. However, they weren’t conducive to the idea, as they prefer a focused launch date – rather than dribbling the thing out bit by bit.
Finally, I hope everyone appreciates that people like myself and Scott Lowe bring out books so earlier in the product life cycle is practically unheard of. In the world of IT books, its not uncommon for books to come out nearly 18/24 months after GA. In the case of my book it should be released within 9 months of the GA date. If you look at Vi3 for example, there a books coming out of the subject even as vSphere4 was released such as Eric Sieberts…
The way I look at it – the longer it takes a book to come out – the more complete and accurate its likely to be – but the quicker it will become dated by major release. It’s a tension that’s impossible resolve.
If your interested, I’m committed to second book on SRM. It will be free to download as PDF, and for print for a nominal charge. Work begins in September of this year…
August 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Oh. VMworld copies? I don’t think so. Not yet. Sorry about that…