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"
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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)
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- 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
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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.
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