Author: Matt Liebowitz
One Weird Trick to Virtualize Monster VMs–Consultants Hate This!
We’ve all seen those ads on the Internet that promise to teach us “one weird trick” that “<someone> hates” to do something easily. Make money fast? Yep. Lose belly fat? Check. Grow “other” parts of your body? Easy. I couldn’t resist stealing the headline for something that I’ve seen come up time and time again when virtualizing large applications…
Perception is Reality When Virtualizing Business Critical Apps
It’s been too long since I’ve blogged anything on a regular basis. Sorry about that. I would love to blame it on the three books I’ve written in the last year but that isn’t the only reason. Hopefully I can turn it around and start writing on a regular basis again. I’ve been sitting on this one for a while…
Virtualizing Exchange and Scaling Up
I have to admit – Exchange virtualization is one of my favorite topics. I love talking about it with customers, colleagues, or anyone who will listen. It has a very well known workload profile which makes sizing consistent, it’s virtualization friendly in that it supports vSphere features like vMotion and HA, and I like talking about the challenges and creative…
Where Have I Been?
Looking at this blog over the past 12 months kind of makes me sick. If you ignore posts that have to do with books and a guest blog post by my brother, you’ll see I’ve only published maybe two or three posts all year. That’s very bad, though the explanation for why can be found in those posts. I’ve made…
Great deal on Kindle edition of Virtualizing MS Business Critical Apps
Amazon has the Kindle edition of Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere at a great price. It’s currently only $22.99, compared to $38 for the paperback version. You can grab the Kindle edition here: http://www.amazon.com/Virtualizing-Microsoft-Applications-Technology-ebook/dp/B00E8HSWQU/ I’m a little late in announcing this so hopefully the price stays at this level for a little while. If you already have…
New book announced: Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5
Now that VMware has officially announced vSphere 5.5, we’re very happy to announce that the new version of the best selling Mastering vSphere series will be released as well! Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 will be out a little bit later this year and brings with it all that you need to know about the new version of vSphere. Nick Marshall…
VMware Press “Meet the Author” Event at VMworld
Interested in getting your copy of a VMware Press book signed by the author(s) while at VMworld this year? VMware Press will be holding a Meet the Author event at VMworld to give you the opportunity to do just that! Come to the bookstore at VMworld on Wednesday, August 28th from 12:30-1:30 for a chance to meet the authors, chat…
Release of Virtualizing MSFT Business Critical Apps book!
After months of late nights and hard work, I’m very happy to announce that the book Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere, co-authored with Alex Fontana of VMware, has been released! The official release date from VMware Press was August 7th, and it will be officially in stock at Amazon on August 16th. It can be ordered from…
Changes in support for virtual machine snapshots for SQL Server
First off, I have to say that writing a book and working on a challenging project for a customer at the same time does not translate well into having a lot of time to blog. Shame on me – I need to do better. Back to business. Last year I wrote an article about using virtual machine snapshots with business…
New Book Coming Soon: Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere
I’m very pleased and excited to announce that the book I’m co-authoring, Virtualizing Microsoft Business Critical Applications on VMware vSphere, is available for both pre-order on Amazon as well as in Rough Cuts format from VMware Press. Though the release dates online currently list a September release date we’re working with VMware Press to try to get it released before…