Virtualization with VMware ESX Server

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 608 pages
• Published by: Syngress
• Edition: 1st Edition June 1, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1597490199
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1597490191
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.8 pounds

Product Description
A virtual evolution in IT organizations throughout the world has begun. It is estimated that currently 3% of all servers run virtually and that number is expected to grow rapidly over the next 5 years. VMware's ESX server is the enterprise tool that provides the platform on which a complete virtual infrastructure can be designed, implemented, and managed. ESX is the most powerful, resilient and customizable of VMware's three virtual platforms and this book explores many of the possibilities that a virtual infrastructure running on ESX Server provides.

Server Sprawl and escalating IT costs have managers and system administrators scrambling to find ways to cut costs and reduce Total Cost of Ownership of their physical infrastructure. Combining software applications onto a single server, even if those applications are from the same software vendor, can be dangerous and problems hard to troubleshoot. VMware ESX Server allows you to consolidate 15 to twenty or even more servers onto a single physical server reducing hardware, electrical, cooling, and administrative costs. These virtual servers run completely independent of each other so if one crashes the other are not affected. Planning and implementing a server consolidation is a complex process.

This book details the requirements for such a project, includes sample forms and templates, and delivers several physical to virtual migration strategies which will save both time and costs. You will easily be able to plan and deploy VMware's ESX Server and begin down the path of an evolved, virtual infrastructure in which costs, administration overhead, and complexity are reduced. VMware has provided the technology for a virtual infrastructure and this book shows you how to build it.

Reader Reviews
Things I liked about this book:- *A good start for someone who wants to learn about VM and Virtualization. *The chapter about best practices, gotchas and common problems. *ESX Vmware under the cover , file structure of ESX server. *The list of useful tools than can be used with ESX. Things I didn't like about this book:- *The book title is about ESX, but many chapters are bout general VM & Virtualization. *I didn't like putting a lot of URLs referring to VMWare site for more details regarding a setting or a configuration for ESX , many of the popele who think to buy this book already have spent sometime on the VMWare site and looking for other resources like this book !. All in all it's a good start for a beginner in VM world in general, not the book you look for to be ESX guru.