Another book about VMware vSphere 5 has been released by VMware Press. It's about a Storage Design vSphere 5. This book is written by Mostafa Khalil and is oriented on the vSphere Storage. There has been many new features introduced in vSphere 5, I presented some of them, like the VMFS 5 which has been introduced in vSphere 5, in my blogpost here. But there is much more: Storage DRS or SDRS, Profile Driven Storage and VASA, Datastore Clustering , VMFS5, additional VAAI capability and Storage IO Control improvements….
Learning all this with a book published by VMware press could be just easier…. And this shows the importance that VMware puts accent on good and quality published books.
Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 5.0 – get your copy.
A quick quote from Amazon:
The more important VMware virtualized infrastructure becomes, the more important virtualization storage becomes. Virtualization storage planning and management is complex, and it's been almost impossible to find authoritative guidance – until now. In Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 5.0, one of VMware's leading experts completely demystifies the “black box” of vSphere storage, and provides illustrated, step-by-step procedures for performing virtually every task associated with it. Mostafa Khalil brings together detailed techniques and guidelines, insights for better architectural design, planning and management best practices, common configuration details, and deep dives into both vSphere and external storage-related technologies. He gives technical professionals the deep understanding they need to make better choices, solve problems, and keep problems from occurring in the first place.
This book answers crucial, ground-level questions such as: How do you configure storage array from “Vendor X” to support vSphere “Feature Y”? How do you know you've configured it correctly? What happens if you misconfigure it? How can you tell from logs and other tools that you have a problem – and how do you fix it? Most of the author's troubleshooting techniques are based on his own personal experience as a senior VMware support engineer helping customers troubleshoot their own vSphere production environments – experience that nobody else has.
There are other ways to learn. Best way (if you can afford it) is throug the Official VMware Learning. VMware Training class especially targeted for storage exists through the VMware Learning portal here.
If not, want to go the cheaper way of learning VMware vSphere 5 – there are excellent video training courses from David Davis and Elias Khnaser – vSphere 5 Training DVDs. The training was released just before VMworld Copenhagen and I reported on it in my article here.
If you have a real lab with hardware which supports vSphere 5, and want to learn on your own you can still download the trial of vSphere from this location.
If you don't have a real lab but have a PC with enough RAM, you can also learn by using VMware Workstation 8, and it's ability to run virtual ESXi servers. You can read my post on the best new features which comes with VMware Workstation 8 – VMware Workstation 8 new features detailed.
You can even run Hyper-V as a nested VM and on the top of it, inside of that nested Hyper-V virtual machine, you can run another VM. You must follow this trick as I blogged about it here – VMware Workstation 8 – how to run Hyper-V.
There has been Scott Lowe's Mastering VMware vSphere 5 release, which is a “bible” for Virtualization admins.
Source: Amazon
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