Book Review: Professional VMware Server

Book Review: Professional VMware Server By Brian Ducharme published: Friday, July 06 2007 VSM speaks with Eric Hammersley author of a new book entitled "Professional VMware Server" Listen to the Podcast: Subscribe to the VSM Podcast: ( rss | m3u | iTunes | xspf | channel ) Download: mp3 Podcast Summary: Length: 21:30 Introduction CIO of the SASSI Institute (00:14) Business driver for Server virtualization (00:42) About the book “Professional VMware server” (01:34) The book evolved into a beast of Eric’s creation (01:48) Contorting VMware’s software to new limits (02:49) Scripting, coding, automation and how you can.. (03:30) Save money, time and headaches (03:55) Software development was grueling, expensive, time consuming and nasty (04:08) Being able to twist the testing environment is much better (06:00) What the industry should do “uniformity in development environment” (06:35) (08:00) Problems with development VMware Server can solve (8:22) Example of a smother running of a development environment (10:10) VMware Server is free (12:44) Reasons why the focus of the book is on VMware Server (13:02) VMware ESX Server sits on the hardware (14:12) VMware Workstation did not support automation in v5.5 (14:54) VMware Lab Manager now does a lot of what the book recommends (16:15) Does VMware run better on Windows or Linux (17:35) Better performance on Linux but less tools (18:35) Windows can suck up half your RAM (19:22) Closing This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. Related Links: Eric Hammersley Blog [vmcoder.com] VMware This book can be purchased from our bookstore, through Wrox publishing or amazon.com. Eric Hammersley is a Software Architect and Virtual Machine expert with over 15 years in the technology industry. He is also the author of Professional VMware Server, a Wrox Professional Series title detailing the use of VMware Server in the software development environment. Comments Search RSS Please register as a member of Virtual Strategy Magazine to comment.Click here to register. 3.26 Copyright (C) 2008 Compojoom.com / Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."