As many of you already know, since the beginning of the year I’d been working on a virtualization book, Mastering VMware vSphere 4. Today I received word from my publisher that the book has been officially released from the warehouse! It’s finally out!
I can’t tell you how excited I am about this release. It’s been so much work, and now I’ll finally get to see the fruits of my labor in real, physical form! As soon as I read the message from my editor I called my wife, Crystal (follow her on Twitter). I think she’s more excited than I am!
I’m sure there will be lots of questions about when Amazon will start shipping pre-orders. Although the book has been released from the publisher’s warehouse, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Amazon will start shipping out right away. I’m hoping that pre-orders will start shipping very soon, and as soon as I have more information I’ll post something here on the site as well as post an update via Twitter (feel free to follow me as well). As of right now, I don’t have any firm information on when pre-orders will start shipping, so I can’t really give you any dates. Sorry, folks!
Thanks to everyone who has helped raise awareness of the book and thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered a copy. Your support has been tremendous! Feel free to continue to spread the word!
Tags: Virtualization, VMware, vSphere, Writing
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Congrats Scott!
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Congrats on your book release! Do you know if Amazon will be offering your book on the Kindle? The DX is *outstanding* for technical material.
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Congrats on the book release Scott!
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That’s a great news Scott! Hopefully I can deliver it to Reunion Island…. -:)
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Can’t wait for my copy to arrive and to start delving in, congrats!
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I checked today and it still said awhile before the release. None of the vSphere books are released yet it seems.
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Congratulations Scott! An amazing accomplishment. You can now officially say “I wrote the book on it”.
Looking forward to getting my copy in the mail.
Congrats,
Brad -
I had placed a per release order on Amazon, do you know if they will start the shipping soon ? Cant wait to get my hands on it.
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Congratulations Scott
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Congrats Scott… I know from experience how writing a book can really suck away any “free” time you may have had, and how it eats into your family time if you aren’t careful. So again, congrats, and I wish you and the book well of course. I know it will be a success and an awesome read for people to learn vSphere.
Best.
David -
Hi,
I’m developing a vSphere training for the Netherlands and I want to use your book for the students. Do you have a Content for me so I can see the line your are following in you book?
Thanks.
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That is so incredible! Congratulations! I know how hard you have worked on it and I think it is awesome!
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Scott, Congrats, that’s very exciting. I can’t wait to get my pre-order copy in the mail. Very excited for both you and Crystal!
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Scott… Congrats on the completion of the book. Now maybe you can take that deep breath that you always wanted to take….LOL. can’t wait to get my hands on a copy… BTW …can I get an autograph?….LOL
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Got this email this morning
Hello from Amazon.com.
We have received new release date information related to the order you placed on August 18 2009 (Order# 103-4649024-7720236). The item(s) listed below will actually ship sooner than we originally expected based on the new release date:
Scott Lowe “Mastering VMware vSphere 4 (Computer/Tech)”
Previous estimated arrival date: September 02 2009
New estimated arrival date: August 26 2009 – August 27 2009 -
Amazon emailed me last night and told me the new estimated arrival date would be August 26-27th.
Congrats on the publication.
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Congrats Scott!
Looking forward to getting my copy soon, just in time for the boy to get here. I foresee some late nights reading this in my future! -
Amazon has started shipment for pre-ordered books, i will get the book in Japan in a week or so (Ordered on US Amazon).
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Thanks Scott, just got the book delivred today.
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Scott, Congrats on the book. Received it a few minutes ago. Now go be a “Daddy” again
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got it today! sweeet
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Just ordered from Amazon. Can’t wait to arrive, i may buy a second one from Borders if they have. Congrats on the publication. Looking forward for the 4.5 revision.
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This thing is HUGE! Just arrived can’t wait to dig in!
Ron
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hai
congratulations scott & crystal
scott bring some more killer books on vmware
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Got mine yesterday from Amazon in the UK. The print size is a little small but otherwise looks good!
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I’m a few chapters into this book and really enjoying it. Thanks much Scott!
Your documentation on the vcenter upgrade is concise and covers all the critical bases. I’ve read through the upgrade, installation, vum guides from vmware and was left with some questions, especially regarding the db setup. Your book absolutely clarified all of my questions. Money well spent! Especially when it was my employer’s dollars.
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Great book, thank you for taking the time to write it. One small thing, on page 290 you indicate that using the GUI to SvMotion and selecting the Thick option eagerzeroedthick’s the vmdk. After repeated attempts I have found this not to be the case. While migrating a Thick VM it remains zeroedthick. just thought I would let you know. Perhaps migrating from Thin to Thick using the GUI does the eagerzeroedthick-ering of the vmdk. I’m using this KB to determine the state of the vmdk: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1011170 Thanks again! When is the 4.1 update coming?
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Mike, thanks for the feedback. I’ll double-check that stuff on the eager zeroed thick VMDKs; I appreciate you pointing that out.
As for an update to the book, the next update will coincide with the next major release of VMware vSphere, whenever that might be; the publisher opted not to do an update for 4.1.
Thanks!
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