Archive for the ‘SRM Chapters’ Category

I’m pleased to announce the general availability of my new book. It’s free to download as a PDF file – and if you prefer a hard-copy you can print a physical copy of the book from LULU.COM.

Both the PDF and the hard-copy are available from the LULU.COM website.

Some stats:”

• The book is just short of 100,000 words
• 400 pages
• 6 months to complete from start to finish
• Additional 100 pages of text and supporting graphics from the SRM 1.0 book
• Additional 3 chapters

What’s New?

• All graphics updated to vSphere4
• All new theme of the New York and New Jersey – Protected and Recovery Site
• How setup replication for EMC Celerra, Clariion CX3, NetApp Filers and HP Lefthand VSA
• Integrated with these three storage vendors  – so I cover what happens in EMC, NetApp, and HP when recovery plans are tested or run
• Coverage of the new “Shared Site” configuration
• Integrating PowerCLI scripts to the Recovery Plan
• How to automate VMware SRM using the SRM SDK API
• Updated PowerCLI chapter specific to the new vSphere4 Distributed vSwitches

This time around I won’t be taking a royalty for the new book.  I would however, strongly urge you to donate money to my chosen charity. That charity is Unicef and this is what they do:

“UNICEF works with families, communities and governments in more than 190 countries worldwide to protect and promote the rights of all children. We are guided throughout our work by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which guarantees every child the same rights: to an education, to a childhood, to be as healthy as possible, to be treated fairly and to be heard. UNICEF works in all these areas, and does so in a joined up way to achieve the best possible outcomes for children.”

So before you begin to read book, please pause to think of the millions of children you help by making a relatively small donation.

The recommended donation is $10 (US Dollars) or the equivalent in your currency.

http://www.supportunicef.org/forms/whichcountry2.html

Click the graphic to download/order the book, but before you do – please consider a donation of some kind.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Hyper9 as new advertiser to RTFM. To celebrate this here’s another here’s Chapter 4 from my SRM book…

Remember you can still buy the book in EMEA at much reduced cost via the VMworld EMEA store (whilst stocks last) – alternatively, if you prefer to buy the SRM book in the US it is still available on LULU.com. 

Work is coming along well with vSphere4 book. My hope is that by the end of the month – I should have working copy I can distribute to my VMTN reviewers and internally to VMware. The plan is to still have an “authors” edition out on LULU on the day of the GA – with a hope of having the final “cut” so to speak ready for VMworld in San Francisco. I’m in discussion with McGraw-Hill about potentially publishing the book via them – so that could change…

Download Chapter 4

To celebrate the arrival of yet another advertiser on RTFM – it’s my pleasure to release chapter 2 & 3 of my popular VMware Site Recovery Manager book. The chapter on Lefthand Networks VSA is somewhat dated – one of my projects is to update my chapter on iSCSI in my vSphere4 book to match the functionality of the new VSA… and also at the same time update the chapter on LHN so it matches with SAN IQ8.

Remember you can still buy the book in EMEA at much reduced cost via the VMworld EMEA store (whilst stocks last) – alternatively, if you prefer to buy the SRM book in the US it is still available on LULU.com. 

Work is coming along well with vSphere4 book. My hope is that by the end of the month – I should have working copy I can distribute to my VMTN reviewers and internally to VMware. The plan is to still have an “authors” edition out on LULU on the day of the GA – with a hope of having the final “cut” so to speak ready for VMworld in San Francisco.

Download Chapter 2

Download Chapter 3

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 commerically available for sometime – and when SRM 2.0 the “old” SRM1.0 book will become completely free. As I release each chapter I will be reviewing the content for any old typos, and rolling those changes through to the commerical book. Remember PDFs are great but when a book runs to 300+ pages it is actually cheaper to buy a copy than it is to take it to a printers (believe you me I learned this during the proofing phase how expensive) plus you get it delivered to your door with a perfect binding! My next free chapter will update the content I created about Lefthand Networks VSA, which is now on SAN/IQ Version 8. There aren’t a huge amount of differences so hopefully it won’t take long…

This book is still based on the original GA version – not the recent U2 edition. U2 did introduce new features and some options ceased being experimental. But not enough changes we introduced to force me to stop work on vSphere4. But I will as each chapter comes out – review the content and update it accordingly.

Enjoy your first free chapter!  

Chapter 1: Introduction to Site Recovery Manager