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VMware vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive Paperback – August 18, 2012

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VMware vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive is the follow-up to best seller vSphere 5.0 Clustering Deepdive and zooms in on three key components of every VMware based infrastructure and. It provides the knowledge and expertise needed to create a cloud infrastructure based on the solid foundation of vSphere HA, vSphere DRS and vSphere Storage DRS. It explains the concepts and mechanisms behind HA, DRS and Storage DRS which will enable you to make well educated decisions. Besides a brand new stretched cluster use case section it includes a fully rewritten Storage DRS section, and new details on both vSphere HA and vSphere DRS.

This book will take you in to the trenches of HA, DRS and Storage DRS and will give you the tools to understand and implement e.g. HA admission control policies, DRS resource pools, Datastore Clusters and resource allocation settings. Each section contains basic design principles that can be used for designing, implementing or improving VMware infrastructures.

Coverage includes:

Stretched Clusters
HA node types
HA isolation detection and response
HA admission control
VM Monitoring
HA and DRS integration
DRS imbalance algorithm
Resource Pools
Impact of reservations and limits
CPU Resource Scheduling
Memory Scheduler
DPM
Datastore Clusters
Storage DRS algorithm
Influencing SDRS recommendations

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416 pages
Language

English
Publication date

August 18, 2012
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5.5 x 1.25 x 8.25 inches
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1478183411
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978-1478183419
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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist working for VMware in the Office of CTO. Duncan specializes in vSphere HA, Storage DRS, Storage I/O Control and vSphere Architecture. Duncan was among the first VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX 007). Duncan is the owner of Yellow-Bricks.com and the author of Essential Virtual SAN He can be followed on twitter at http://twitter.com/DuncanYB.

Frank Denneman is a Chief Evangelist working for Pernix Data. Frank focused on Resource Management, features such as vSphere DRS, Storage DRS, Storage I/O Control and vMotion technology. Frank is among the first VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX 029). Frank is the owner of FrankDenneman.nl. He can be followed on twitter at http://twitter.com/FrankDenneman.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 18, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1478183411
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1478183419
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.25 x 8.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #5,226,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Duncan Epping
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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist working for VMware in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group. Duncan is responsible for ensuring VMware’s future innovations align with essential customer needs, translating customer problems to opportunities and functioning as the global lead evangelist for Cloud Infrastructure. Duncan is the owner of VMware Virtualization blog Yellow-Bricks.com and has various books on the topic of VMware including the “vSphere Clustering Deep Dive” series. He can be followed on Twitter @DuncanYB.
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Frank Denneman
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In addition to engaging with customers and press, I present at Industry leading events to drive awareness and excitement about what we are doing at VMware.
Currently, I am a Senior Staff Architect at VMware R&D, developing and communicating VMware’s technical marketing strategy of VMware Cloud on AWS. Previously I was the Chief Technologist at PernixData; a company focused on delivering next-level storage solutions for the VMware ecosystem. In the first decade of my career, I was an Architect designing virtual infrastructures for many Fortune 500 companies.
Besides my position at VMware, I serve as a technical advisor for ITQ and EVO Venture Partners. In this role, I provide strategic guidance for our service portfolio and product roadmap.
I am a VMware Certified Design Expert (nr. 29) and the primary author of frankdenneman.nl. A blog focused on resource management for virtual infrastructures. It has been voted as a Top 5 blog consecutively over the last five years.
I developed the vSphere Design Pocketbook concept, which is a platform for the virtualization community members to broadcast their knowledge. I have one patent pending in resource management, and co-authored the following books:
Designing a Storage Performance Platform (2015)
vSphere 5.1 Clustering deepdive (2012)
vSphere 5.0 Clustering technical deepdive (2011)
vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS technical deepdive (2010)
Currently, I'm co-authoring the vSphere 6.5 Host Resources Deep Dive. For more information please following us @HostDeepDive or visit our facebook page HostDeepDive.
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bdrew

Deepest, most thorough dive into vsphere 5.1 Clustering

Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2013

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I have come to rely on Duncan's "Deep Dives" into clustering, HA and DRS since the vSphere 4.1 edition. IMO, they/it are by far the best, single, consolidated source for the level of detail available. I use them to increase my knowledge and study for VMware certification exams. I'm studying for VCAPs now and won't go sit for the the DCA until I know the material in this book. It's that good and that essential. I would go so far to say that until one understands this book and can readily implement, when applicable, the concepts contained within, one is not a vSphere expert. Again, IMO, this edition is essential reading for any VMware oriented professional.

Brian Drew
VCP 3, 4, 5 and Cloud

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2013

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Now, I don't drink coffee, and coffee is quite expensive, but it's still a good comparison; for those who do, and for 3 cups of their morning brew, you have already paid for this book!

This book is jam packed with information; concise, yet detailed enough and to the point, explanations to complex VMware configuration and internals.

Now, you may say, "I could have got the info in this book after reading 100 white papers and numerous blog posts anyway", but why do that, when you can get this book, which gives you all that info, saves you time, and just for the price of 3 cups of coffee!

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2015

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I like the book.. It goes in depth about the clustering features. One thing I would like to see is better grammar. Yes you are right - grammar. There are lot of mistakes which makes understanding some topics a little confusing and challenging. Seems there was no one to review the work before publishing.
Apart from the above problem, this book is very good in contents

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David Luke

The more I learn about how vSphere works, the more I want to learn about it!

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2013

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While I haven't finished the DRS section of this book, the HA portion did help me to understand the process that ESXi hosts go through when marking a VM as protected with HA, as well as the procedure that is followed when a host takes a dive.

Great bit of reference material, I plan to finish it and re-read it once or twice in preparation for the VCP exam.

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TM

The go to resource for VMware Cluster

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2013

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Every VM admin and engineer needs to read this book. It should be required reading before designing a VMware vSphere solution. It is the most well written and detailed view of cluster, DRS, and HA available. This book contains all of the information required to understand how these features function and provides excellent information on best practices. I highly recommend adding Duncan's blog yellow-bricks.com to your favorites too!

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Learn how VMWare Clustering and HA works.

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2016

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Excellent resource for anyone managing and supporting VMWare. There a many writers that will tell you the options that you can choose when setting up VMware. This one tells you what each option does and the underlying workings of how vmware functions based on the options you choose.

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Laakness

Excellent Resource

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2012

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This is a must for anyone who runs a vSphere HA/DRS cluster. You will gain a much better understanding of what happens and why during different scenarios. Having that information during an outage will keep you from going insane and come to resolutions quicker.

I also found it to be a great resource in my VCAP5-DCA studying.

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Andrea

A must of each virtualization admin and architect

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2013

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This books give a lot of information and deep details about a VMware vSphere Cluster, manly on HA and DRS services, but also on other aspects.
For this reason could be a good resource also for Virtualization Architects and also for people involved in VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD and VCDX certifications.

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Mr. James M

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2013

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I own many VMware books and this book really does explain things in depth and is one of my favourites. Great price as well for what you get as you will not find this information anywhere else. So many books cover how to do things but this one tells you how it all works in the background so you have a clearer understanding of how it all comes together. Written by Duncan Epping who has a VSphere Blog rated as number one for a few years, Duncan also works for VMWare so he knows his stuff.

Tim Scheppeit

Ein Muss...

Reviewed in Germany on January 27, 2014

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...für jeden, der sich näher mit vSphere Administration oder Design beschäftigt.

Auch Administratoren mit mehreren Jahren Praxiserfahrung in diesem Bereich werden in diesem Buch noch etwas lernen.

Endlich ein Deepdive, dass hält was es verspricht.

Da dieses Buch nicht nur die Version 5.1, sondern auch die Neuerungen von 5.0 zu 4.1 noch einmal hervorhebt, lohnt sich dieses Buch gleich doppelt.

Kaufen!

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Jay

Tech deep dive and very informative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2015

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Another example of a concise technicle deep dive into a vmware product. Easy to read and navigate through the book targeting areas of interest. Potty this chap doesn't write a book or 2 on citrix products considering the utter cr*p that's available on those topics.

AL

Très bon livre

Reviewed in France on June 6, 2016

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Ce livre est vraiment intéressant, c'est une synthèse des fonctionnalités de clustering et très poussé également techniquement.

Il m'as permis d’accéder rapidement à un certain niveau de compréhension et d’appréhension de fonctionnalités vsphere.

De plus l'auteur est reconnu du dans le milieu, je suis un lecteur régulier de son blog.

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G

brilliant preparation book for VCP,VCAP and VCDX

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2015

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I have used this book for the third time now and for this time it is for my VCDX preparations where the real in depth information and the clustering scenario were really pertinent. Great book that every vSphere admin and architect needs to read

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