Rob's Guide to Using VMWare: Covers Workstation, ACE, GSX and ESX Server, 2nd Edition

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Customer Reviews:

Very Good for 4.5 Users - Good tips for new 5.0 Users [Posted on 2005-10-24]
Good for new VMWare users, especially if using Workstation 4.5. Good tips for new users using VMWare version 5.0. Covers Netware and Windows clustering, including using iSCSI. Also covers version GSX and ESX. If using GSX or ESX versions exclusively instead of Workstation ...... you may want to search further.

specialised usages [Posted on 2006-02-06]
VMware is the most common commercially available virtual machine code. This book is a quick guide to how to install and use it. You should be pleased to know that the host operating system can be Microsoft or linux. However, you are restricted to an Intel CPU. A basic difference between VMware and emulation is due to this. There is no emulation of another CPU.

The book suggests several possible usages for VMware, based on customer experiences. Perhaps simply to standardise an environment for your users, if the applications they will run can do so with the performance loss involving in a virtual machine. You do need to be clear on this.

Another reason for using VMware, that does not seem to be mentioned, is if you are running a honeypot or an intrusion detection system, and want an extra level of protection.

Vmware Review [Posted on 2007-01-05]
Everything I have seen from Rob Bastiaansen has been
excellent. This Vmware book is no exception.

H Clark

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