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As I mentioned in an article a few days ago, I will be representing Vizioncore at the Virtualization Congress show taking place in London from the 14th - 16th of October. I actually had every intention of releaseing my primary presentation that was rejected by VMware for the VMworld 2008 show to the public, but was stopped by my marketing team when this opportunity presented itself. With a slightly extended preparation time, and a much more interesting presentation format, I'm quite excited that I'll be able to provide some valuable information to the community about the future challenges surrounding virtualization, and how to meet them head on.

Yes, I realize the abstract describes me as a Vizioncore employee. I find that I often need to bring shirts for 3-4 different companies to various shows depending on exactly what I'm talking about on that particular day.

I was recently asked a question by a reader that made me realize some further explanation was required. The question as posted to me was the following:

Why should a zoned lun not be shared between clusters? I tried to find an official stance from VMWare on the communities section and the only information I could find was that you could share a lun between clusters or more accurately between all ESX host in multiple clusters. I would rather not share the luns between clusters, but a team member seems to be bent on doing it. What reasons personal, political, or technical led to the statement in the book about not having luns cross environmets?

It's no secret that I get to travel to Europe a lot for my job, and truth be told, I quite enjoy it.  One country that has continuously eluded me has been Germany.  In fact, the only reason I have ever been there is to connect through either Frankfurt (an airport I absolutely despise) or Munich to get to Italy.  Well, not only will I finally get my chance this summer, but I will also get a second chance in the fall.  Combine that with another trip to London in October and I'm all of a sudden moving up to Platinum status on American Airlines in 3 quick trips.

As promised, I am now notifying the world that the book is FINALLY available for Pre-Order on Amazon.com.  According to Amazon, who has a better estimate directly from the distributor than I do, the book is set to ship on July 15.  To Pre-Order, head on over to Amazon.  To help keep this site updated in the future with technology and book updates (both of which will be on their way), feel free to click on any of the links (including my 30 second hack-job of the book image above) and order through my Amazon Associates link.

Once again, thank you to everyone for their patience while we provide the best virtualizaiton book available.

As reported last week in my update, we were anticipating sending the final version of the book to the printer this week. Well, as of Wednesday, June 11th, we have officially gone to the printer! What this means is that the printer will schedule the printing and binding of the book and have it sent straight to the distributor upon completion. The distributor is then responsible for sending it to retailers such as Amazon , Borders, Chapters, or any other outlet that will be providing it directly to the customer.