Virtualizing the Sphere's Edge…

vSphere 4.0 is out and the virtualization.info Bookstore is getting filled with fresh new books about it, but the large majority of VMware customers are still on VI 3.x, so they should be happy to know that one of the bestseller about this platform is now available for free.
The book is VMware Infrastructure 3: Advanced [...]

VMware just released a very useful, 54-pages free ebook that collects many the principal guidelines to optimize the performance of the new vSphere: Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.0.
It includes four chapters:

Hardware for Use with VMware vSphere
ESX and Virtual Machines
Guest Operating Systems
Virtual Infrastructure Management

If you are planning a migration to the new platform this [...]