As my readers already know Rob is a very active VMware expert, providing since ever tips about two hot arguments: Netware on VMware and guestOS clustering with VMware Workstation.
Now he wrote a book you can buy on his website: “Rob’s Guide to Using VMware”.
| Rob’s Guide To Using VMware Release Date: January 15, 2005 ISBN: 9080893412 Edition: 1 Pages: 268 Size: 9.4″ x 6.8″ x 0.79″ |
What this book covers
If you’re a newcomer to VMware products, this book tells you exactly what VMware is all about, and how to setup your first Virtual Machines. You will learn about networking, virtual disks and more.
This book continues where the VMware manual stops: real life. Users are doing things with VMware that were not planned by the developers. This book fills the gaps between what users want to do and what is described in the manuals. This book introduces new uses for VMware, for example how to configure a cluster with NetWare and Windows, and how to perform Physical to Virtual conversions with simple low cost tools. The configurations in this book are explained in detail for VMware Workstation, based on version 4.5.2. Most topics also apply to VMware GSX Server and VMware ESX Server.
Major topics in this book are:
- Fast track to VMware Workstation for new users
- Virtual Machine configuration and optimization tips
- Network configurations for NAT and routing
- Tips for Windows and NetWare in VMware
- Physical to Virtual conversion with low cost tools
- Clustering for NetWare and Windows with shared disks in VMware GSX Server
- Clustering for NetWare and Windows based on iSCSI for VMware Workstation
Where’s Linux?
If you’ve read the title and the table of contents of this book, you’ll notice that there isn’t much on Linux. You’ll find information on Linux guest operating systems, but not on configuration of all the available topics on a Linux host. A second version of this book covering Linux configurations has been planned for release in late 2004 or early 2005.