VMware and Pearson Team Up to Offer VMware Press

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May 202011

Pearson and VMware Announce the Creation of VMware Press

New Publishing Alliance to Provide Virtualization Learning and Certification Resources from VMware

Indianapolis, IN – May 19, 2011 – Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, and VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware Press, a newly created technical imprint that will serve as VMware’s official publishing entity. The newly formed press will provide a suite of virtualization technology and certification products in multiple languages and formats.

News Facts

The newly formed press will focus on three types of content:

  • Technical books, ebooks and videos that concentrate on specific applications of virtualization.
  • Decision Maker books, ebooks and videos that focus on the business aspects of virtualization.
  • Official certification materials that support VMware’s complete certification program.

The majority of the new products will target VMware technology, primarily VMware vSphere®, VMware View™, VMware vCenter™ and VMware vCloud®, which comprise the basic platform for all of VMware’s products and services.

Expert authorities, IT professionals, and subject matter experts from VMware will author official VMware Press titles.

Working in conjunction with VMware, Pearson plans to leverage the user group community programs and social channels to further engage the VMware community and offer exclusive promotions and access to the certification and technology products endorsed by VMware.

Visit http://www.vmware.com/go/vmwarepress for a complete product listing of relevant materials for IT professionals.

Usable Quotes

“Pearson stands for accessible, engaging learning, and we look forward to working with VMware to create materials that help IT professionals master innovative technologies and prepare for career-building certifications,” said David Dusthimer, Associate Publisher for Cisco Press, Pearson IT Certification and the new VMware Press.  “Through this partnership, we will work hard to make VMware Press synonymous with exceptional VMware learning.”

“Many qualified subject matter experts from our engineering and technical communities are already reputable authors,” said Andrea Eubanks de Jounge, Senior Director at VMware, “and the time is right for VMware, through our alliance with Pearson, to establish a publishing entity as an official source of books and certification preparatory materials.”

Additional Publisher Links

Facebook: VMware Press fan page

Twitter: @VMwarepress

About Pearson

Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, is home to such respected brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, and Sams Publishing, which have as their online publishing arm, InformIT-The Trusted Technology Learning Source. In addition, Berkeley-based Peachpit, the publishing partner for Adobe Press, Apple Certified, and others, publishes best-selling books for creative design professionals. Pearson is also co-founder, with O’Reilly Media Inc., of Safari Books Online, the premier on-demand technology content library providing thousands of expert reference materials through a single point of contact, including expert technology, creative and design, industry and management resources in video, audio and written formats. Pearson Education is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company. Pearson’s other primary businesses include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group.

About VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes.  With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere® – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 revenues of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization, which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com

Press Contacts

Jamie Adams, Senior Publicist
Pearson 317-428-3012
Jamie.adams@pearson.com / @Jamieadams76

Joan Stone, Global PR

650-224-8733

joanstone@VMware.com

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Posted by Jae Ellers at 3:55 pm

ESX 3i Embedded Availability Imminent

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Feb 272008

With VMworld Europe in full swing we can expect some product announcements and press releases happing every day.

VMware ESX 3i Embedded will be available from at least 4 major vendors “real soon now”. At least that’s the word on the street. I’ve definitely heard similar things from my vendor contacts.

I’m very excited about this since it will be great to use in some of our regional sites. It’s tough to get disparate hardware in and have to juggle configs around to get on that new hardware remotely. This should really smooth things out.

Here are some announcements in that arena:

Fujitsu Siemens announces immediate availability: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/fsc_vmworld.html

HP announces March 31 availability:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/hp_vmworld.html. This comes with the announcment that HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 will support ESX 3i. HP SIM 5.2 is already available here: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/index.html

Dell announces early April availability:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/dell_vmworld.html

IBM is only included here as part of the “available within 60 days”:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/3i_rollup_vmworld.html, however a search of their site shows they are well along in preparing to support 3i.

Posted by Jae Ellers at 7:41 am

ESX 3i - The End of the World As We Know It

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Nov 182007

Welcome to a giant paradigm shift in computing. The future is warming up on the runway and should launch in the next couple weeks.

VMware ESX 3i is ESX 3.5 with the Console OS (Service Console, COS, what have you) removed. Gone. Kaput. No more logging in to fix things. No more backup or management agents running on the ESX host. Check out VMware’s product page and datasheet for 3i.

Does that sound like big deal to you? If not, it sounds like you’re ready to move on down the road. Just bump your VirtualCenter load to 2.5 and get after it. However, if this move leaves you confused about how to handle backups, managment agents, or other services let’s cover the pain points and how VMware expects you to deal with the change.

  • Custom Scripts: Do you use bash or perl scripts to gather performance data, perform some process related procedures, or other custom sequential operations? Expect to port these to either the new remote CLI (Command Line Interface) or get used to using one of the other APIs on a remote system.
  • Management Agents: If you use servers from major manufacturers you may use their management agents to report hardware and software events to a centralized management server. Those agents are now useless for monitoring a 3i system. The good news: An industry standard CIM interface is used to expose all of those things you’d expect to see. The bad news: We’ll be waiting on the manufacturers to update their management platforms and they’re notoriously bad about hitting launch dates with supporting agents. In a big shop this will either force the use of the full version of 3.5 as a transitional stop-gap or slow adoption of 3.5 until these are available. HP, IBM, Dell, etc. please get your SIM, Director, OpenManage, etc. updated ASAP as everyone will want to move to 3i once the dust settles.
  • Backup: Hmmm. Here’s the only place that should cause some big growing pains. I’d expect the usual suspects will eventually support using their backup software remotely. But again, not out of gates. In fact, while the server manufacturers will take 3-6 months to get their management agents aligned with the 3i CIM model, my guess is that it will take more like 6-12 months for the major backup players to figure out the new backup paradigm. Your best bet is to try VCB or look at a major ESX backup player like Vizioncore vRangerPro or Phd Esxpress to support 3.5/3i if you want to move on this quickly. Since VCB should work in a VM without additional plumbing and support all storage types (see p. 29 here) it’s worth a look in 3.5 if you haven’t already checked it out, especially if you’re already on Enterprise ESX licenses.

So why move? What’s so compelling here?

  • 32 MB footprint (yes, it takes only 32 MB of code to make the entire ESX server run)
  • New hardware will ship with a dual bank flash drive for firmware like redundancy. Blow an upgrade and just switch back to the code you were running 5 minutes ago.
  • Security. No agents. No services. No access without secure authentication.
  • No more customizing installations for new releases.
  • No more drive failures or complicated SAN booting setups.

So what’s the plan? I think many sites will adopt a two phase approach:

  1. Move to 3.5 using the standard install with COS for production. Poke & prod at 3i in the lab and migrate the problem areas forward.
  2. Once the issues are sorted, move to 3i. That’s assuming the hardware vendors understand that we want this for our existing servers and not just for some SKU that includes 32 GB of memory and 8 sporty cores with lots of zeros after the $ sign. We want to stuff a USB drive in an existing blade or discrete server and go with 3i.
Posted by Jae Ellers at 7:31 pm
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