I just received the second proof copy of the new book and I’m really (really) stoked about the book. The full color print is awesome and truly adds that special feeling to the book.
I’m so excited how the diagrams turned out, that I must share some pictures of the inside of the book.




(For the CSI-fan’s, yes I have blurred some text fields as they contain NDA material)
Besides the diagrams, the whole interior is redesigned. The spread is reviewed, inner and outer margins are adjusted and we even taken the gutter space into account, providing a better and nicer reading experience.
We decided that we are going to offer the book in Full color format and a (full-color) ebook. After seeing the full-color version, we believe publishing a black and white version will not do the content any justice.And due to time constraints we cannot invest time in offering a black and white version of the book.
We are still finalizing the book but we hope to provide the possibility of pre-ordering near the publish date. Stay tuned for more information!

Lately the amount of content of frankdenneman.nl is getting a bit stale, so a small update from my side to show what I’ve been up to and that this blog is still alive.
vSphere x Clustering Deepdive
Duncan and I are working (feverishly) on a new book for a while. Calling it an update of the 4.1 HA and DRS technical deepdive won’t do the book any justice as the old chapters are complete rewritten. The HA section will cover the new HA stack of the upcoming vSphere version, while the focus of the DRS section leans more towards resource management. In addition this book covers Storage DRS and introduces a cool new feature called “supporting deep dives” These additional deep dives expand on supporting technologies of the main cluster feature set, it will contain in-depth information of technologies such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, EVC and certain new technologies introduced in the upcoming version of vSphere. I bet you guys will love this stuff.
Speaking at VMworld 2011
Last Friday I received very good news. In my previous post I asked everyone to consider voting on the sessions I participate in and the good news is that both sessions were accepted. Session VSP1682 – vSphere 5 clustering Q&A, co-presenting with Duncan is accepted for both VMworld Las Vegas as well as VMworld Europe in Copenhagen. The second session, VSP1425 – Ask the Experts vBloggers, I’m proud to join the incredible line-up of Chad Sackac, Duncan Epping, Rick Scherer and Scott Lowe to help answer questions on virtualization design. After 5 years of visit VMworld as an attendee, I finally get to experience what it’s like to be at the other side of the room.

Maybe you already seen the tweets flying by, seen the posts on Facebook or just heard it at the water cooler but we finally published the eBook (Kindle) version of the HA and DRS deepdive book. Duncan has the low down on how the eBook came to life: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/04/05/what-an-ebook-is-this-a-late-april-fools-joke/.
We know that many who wanted the eBook bought the paper version instead so we decided to make it cheap and are offering the book for only $7.50.
Please be aware that Amazon is using a regional price scheme, so orders outside the US pay a bit more. However, Marcel van den Berg (@marcelvandenber) posted a workaround how to save some money.
Disclaimer: we do guarantee this works and won’t support this in any form.
So without further ado we present: vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical deepdive,. Pick it up.
Duncan & Frank
PS: it is also available in the UK Kindle Store for £5.36.

Maybe you already seen the tweets flying by, seen the posts on Facebook or just heard it at the water cooler but we finally published the eBook (Kindle) version of the HA and DRS deepdive book. Duncan has the low down on how the eBook came to life: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/04/05/what-an-ebook-is-this-a-late-april-fools-joke/.
We know that many who wanted the eBook bought the paper version instead so we decided to make it cheap and are offering the book for only $7.50.
Please be aware that Amazon is using a regional price scheme, so orders outside the US pay a bit more. However, Marcel van den Berg (@marcelvandenber) posted a workaround how to save some money.
Disclaimer: we do guarantee this works and won’t support this in any form.
So without further ado we present: vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical deepdive,. Pick it up.
Duncan & Frank
PS: it is also available in the UK Kindle Store for £5.36.

As of today, our book “vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive” can be ordered via ComputerCollectief. Computercollectief is a dutch computer book and software reseller and ships to most European countries. Using Computercollectief, we hope to evade the long shipping times and accompanying costs.
Go check it out. http://www.comcol.nl/detail/73133.htm
Comcol expect to be able to deliver at the end of this month.