VMware vSphere Design Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe, Maish Saidel-Keesing
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated

Find out the “why” behind virtualization design decisions and make better choices, with VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition, which has been fully updated for vSphere 5.x. Written by two virtualization experts and packed with real-world strategies and examples, VMware vSphere Design, Second Edition will help you design smart design decisions. Over the last few months in my exceedingly rare spare time (Varrow + 3 year-old + rampant trap/skeet shooting addiction) I have been working with TrainSignal and Lane Leverett on a new course, vSphere Security Design. TrainSignal and well known VMware vSphere author and blogger, Scott Lowe, have released an informative free on-demand webinar entitled “VMware vSphere Design 101”. VMware vSphere Design - 2nd Edition. Our goal is to create a minimal compliance scan that is based around the VMware vSphere Compliance audit, and also reduces the number of plugins required to effectively run the scan. It is called : VMware vSphere Design by Forbes Guthrie, Scott Lowe and Maish Saidel-Keesing, published by Wiley Publishing of Sybex in 2011. I just finished a good vSphere book that I wanted to share and recommend. In fact, as I write this article, it seems that even the site design of the VSX has been improved with an almost Windows 8/2012 “metro interface” that I really love (I'm sure that VMware wouldn't like calling it that). And import them into VMware Player (which is free), VMware Workstation (30 day evaluation), VMware Fusion (30 day evaluation), VMware ESXi free edition, or the VMware vCloud Suite (which includes the commercial vSphere and has a 60 day evaluation). Hitachi UCP Pro for VMware vSphere was designed and developed from the ground up as a highly integrated solution with industry-leading elements. Begin the journey to a private cloud with datacenter virtualization While this may sound appealing there are some pros and cons to think about before designing and implementing this model. The Authors Scott Lowe and Forbes Guthrie were joined by Kendrick Coleman for a detailed chapter on vCloud Director.