Virtualization Bookshelf

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The essential books and references for the Virtualization Professional

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VMware

• Edward L. Haletky. VMware vSphere(TM) and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment, July 2009, Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. Acailable from InformIT.com (eBook Version)
• Edward L. Haletky. VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers. Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (January 8, 2008). Available from InformIT.com (eBook Version)
• Ron Oglesby, Scott Herold, Mike Laverick. VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced Technical Design Guide & Advanced Operations Guide. The Brian Madden Company; Second edition edition (August 1, 2008).
• John Arrasjid, Karthik Balachandran, Daniel Conde, Gary Lamb, and Steve Kaplan. #18: Deploying the VMware Infrastructure. USENIX Association; 2008.
• David Marshall, Stephen S. Beaver, Jason McCarty. VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center. Auerbach Publications; 1 edition (August 25, 2008).
• Eric Siebert. VMware VI3 Implementation and Administration. Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (May 31, 2009) (eBook Version)
• Mitch Northcut. RapidApp's Quick Start guide to ESX 3.0. Rapid Application Deployment Inc. 2007. (added per Tom Howarth)
• Mike Laverick. Administering VMware's Site Recovery Manager. RTFM Education Ltd. 2008. (added per Mike Laverick)
• Hal Rottenberg. [hhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982131402?ie=UTF8&tag=virtuawiki-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0982131402 Managing VMware Infrastructure with Windows PowerShell TFM]. SAPIEN Technologies (March 31, 2009).
• Scott Lowe. Mastering VMware vSphere 4. Sybex (August 31, 2009).
• Scott Lowe, Jason McCarty, Matthew Johnson. VMware vSphere 4 Administration Instant Reference. Sybex (December 21, 2009).
• Dave Mishchenko, Duncan Epping, Bernie Baker, Thomas Bryant, Stewart Radnidge. vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide: Shortcuts down the path of Virtualization. BookSurge Publishing (November 20, 2009).
• Zunhe Jin. VMware VI and vSphere SDK: Managing the VMware Infrastructure and vSphere. Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (October 9, 2009)

Page a Day Calendar

• Jason Boche. vCalendar Virtualization Page-a-Day Calendar. The Printed Owl (2009).

General References

• Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins. Linux in a Nutshell. O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 5 edition (July 27, 2005).
• Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike. Unix Programming Environment. Prentice Hall (March 1984).

Xen

• Jeanna N. Matthews, Eli M. Dow, Todd Deshane, Wenjin Hu, Jeremy Bongio, Patrick F. Wilbur, Brendan Johnson. " Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization. Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (April 16, 2008). (eBook Version)
• David Chisnall. The Definitive Guide to the Xen Hypervisor. Prentice Hall PTR; 1 edition (November 19, 2007). (eBook Version)

Security

• Himanshu Dwivedi. Securing Storage: A Practical Guide to SAN and NAS Security. Addison-Wesley Professional (November 21, 2005).
• Michael Howard, David LeBlanc, John Viega. 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (July 26, 2005).
• Gregory N. Purdy. LINUX iptables Pocket Reference. O'Reilly Media Inc; 2004.
• Dan Farmer, Wietse Venema. Forensic Discovery. Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (January 9, 2005).

Magazines/eZines

• Virtualization Review
• Virtual Strategy Magazine
• SearchVMware
• Search Server Virtualization

Articles

• Going Virtual with Ubuntu, LINUX+: Linux Environments for Experts, Vol.2 No. 4, pp 24-28.
• Hard disk encryption: protect the whole system -- not just your home directory, Linux Pro Magazine, Issue 72, November 2006, pp 32-37.
• Choose the right encrypted filesystem, Linux Pro Magazine, Issue 72, November 2006, pp 22-31.

White Papers

• VMware, Inc. Shared Disk Clusters ala MSCS, RedHat Clustering, etc.
• VMware, Inc. Guest Operating System Installation Guide.
• VMware, Inc. Using IP Multicast with VMware ESX 3.5
• VMware, Inc. Implementing Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB) in a Virtualized Environment
• VMware, Inc. Interpreting esxtop Statistics
• VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Networking Concepts
• VMware, Inc. VMware ESX Server 3: 802.1Q VLAN Solutions
• VMware, Inc. VMware VI3 in a Cisco Environment
• VIOPS Proven Practice Setting Up VMware Consolidated Backup for any Backup Software

Specific Blogs

• TechTarget How Traffic Routes between VMs on ESX Hosts
• Texiwill's Topology Blogs
• Ken's Virtual Reality vSwitch Blogs

Blogs

• Ken's Virtual Reality
• VMware VMTN Blog authored by John Troyer
• Virtualization Evangelist authored by Jason Boche
• Planet V12n Blog Roll Up from all over the Virtualization Blogsphere
• Eric Sloof's NTPRO.NL Blog from the Netherlands

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