Review: VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise

Posted by tripwire45 on Jan 22, 2008 8:01 PM EDT
CertForums.co.uk; By James Pyles
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Skip the table of contents unless you want to go blind. Sorry, it's just the formatting of the TOC seems to run all the chapters and topics together and at least in my case, makes me work extra hard to get my visual markers and make sense of the content. I had a much better time in the "How is this Book Organized" section, though it didn't let me take in the different topics in the book at a glance. This is how I first approach a book to try and understand in brief, what's inside and if I'm interested. So far, if I'd come across this book in a bookstore or library, I might have passed it by. That would have been a mistake on my part.

Since the book is actually in my hot little hands though, let's continue and see

what Haletky has to offer here. Beyond the TOC, I noticed that the target audience runs

from beginner to advanced administrators who are interested in some aspect of

virtualization. That's kind of brief and a bit vague, but I suppose if you know what

VMware ESX Server is and why you'd want to use it, you know who you are. The author

does advise that you "sit down in your favorite comfy chair, with a cup of your

favorite hot drink, and prepare to enjoy the chapters in"
the book which can be

read either cover-to-cover or as a reference. I assume the former if you are a VMware

and virtualization newbie and the latter if you know what you're doing in some sense

and want to learn more.

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