I have written many administration guides which cover all of the VMware Enterprise Products (ESX, vCenter, P2V). They have been created in a PDF format.

Administrating VMware Site Recovery Manager 4.0

The SRM book is available as free PDF download from LULU. Alternatively, if you wish a hard-copy you can order one from the lulu as well.

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.

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

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

Administrating VMware Site Recovery Manager 1.0

The SRM book is available as free PDF download from LULU. Alternatively, if you wish a hard-copy you can order one from the lulu as well.

The Virtual Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide

The Vi3 ADTG book that I co-authored with Ron Oglesby and Scott Herold is now available as free download

Be sure to download the two other guides below on Vi3.5 to “upgrade” the book to be more up to date. If you still want a hard copy, the book is available on Amazon

Quick Start Guide to ESX3i

Doc Version 1.1
This guide covers the primary configuration of the ESX3i product. It was based around the Beta & RC1 distrubutions. It has yet to be verified against the GA release, primarily because I don’t have access to it (yet!)

Upgrade Guide to ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5
Doc Version 1.1
This guide is geared up for people already familiar with ESX 3.x.x and VirtualCenter 2.x.x and wish to quickly upgrade their skills to ESX 3.5 and VirtualCenter 2.5. It was based on the Beta and Release Candidates – and has yet to be fully tested against the GA Release.

Upgrade Guide to ESX 3 and VirtualCenter 2
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This guide is geared up for people already familiar with ESX 2.x and VirtualCenter 1.x and wish to quickly upgrade their skills. It was based on the Beta and Release Candidates – and has been update for the GA Release

Guide to ESX 3 Service Console
Doc Version 1.1
This guide is geared up to people already familiar with ESX 3.x – but now want to dig deep into the VMware’s platform, and discover ways of managing ESX from the command-line environment

Guide to ESX 2.x Administration I
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Includes topics such as: Installation, Virtual Machine Administration, Disk Management (both Virtual and Physical), Performance Management, Networking, Basic Security.

Guide to ESX 2.x Administration II
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Includes topic such as:  Advanced Usage of the Service Console, Overview of SANS, Performance Tools (esxtop, vmkusage, vmktree), Clustering-in-a-box, Overview of Scripting (Shell Scripts and VBS Scripts)

Guide to vCenter 1.x Administration
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Creating farms, virtual machine groups, cloning, templates, permissions & delegation, cold migration, performance monitoring, alerts and creating charts

Guide to P2V 2.x
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Overview of VMware’s P2V Product based on many server builds including NT4, Citrix, SQL, Dynamic Disks and Microsoft Software Fault Tolerance, Ghost and BartPE Boot CD and Overview of LeoStream P>V. Refreshed for ESX 3.x and VirtualCenter 2.x

Beyond the Manual – VMware ESX 2.x
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A round up of assorted “value-add” material not conventional covered in VMware courses or in documentations, including: Advanced Disk Management (both Physical and Virtual), Unattended Installations, A Firewall “Tutorial” (MS NAT and MS ISA Server), Controlling & Restricting the ESX User Interface (MUI/Service Console)

ESX 2.x Service Console Quick Command-Line Guide
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A round up of the common commands used at the Service Console, with samples and quick explanations