It gives me great pleasure to announce that my book on VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0 is now available from lulu.com. You can buy the book by clicking the book cover at the top of the blog or by clicking this link here:

http://www.lulu.com/content/4343147

In case you missed it – I have two free chapters available from the rough “Authors Edition” that was sold in limited copies at this years VMworld 2008:

Install and Configure Lefthand Networks VSA ready for SRM
PowerShell and DR

Currently, I’m the only experienced VMware guy who as written substantially about SRM. In fact there no books available on SRM at all. So I’m really pleased to be the first guy to get there.

Remember by buying the book via LULU.com you will be directly supporting me and the RTFM Education website, which I hope you will agree has been a valuable and useful source of information on all matter regarding VMWare Virtualization.

I order my copy of the book about a week and half ago using “Express Delivery”. That’s from the US where it is printed to Europe. I’m not sure how quick internal US delivery will be. The book is priced in US dollars mainly because I know most of my readership (85% in fact) are from there. With the current exchange rate that works out about £29.99 or about €37. That works out about .10p a page which I think is pretty good value for money. Some might ask why didn’t distribute via PDF. Unfortunately, DRM for PDF is still very expensive, and I’m afraid to say that what’s downloaded as PDF is on BitTorrent tommorow.

As for the long-term future. I will refresh the book when new releases come out – and people who buy the book now will be able to download a “What’s New” style PDF within the 1.x.x release. Once SRM is on version 2.x.x I will release this book for free to download as PDF, or as a paid-for printed book. I want to do this keep up RTFM’s reputation for free resources. It’s taken me 7 months to write this book from starting with the Beta in April, to a finished copy in October. So I think its only fair that I make something out of this venture, don’t you? At least you can be safe in knowing purchase results in the author receiving the full value of his work (the essance of self-publishing) rather than the bookshop or Amazon.com taking their hefty cut.

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