Bernard Golden (2)

This book provides a broad and comprehensive view of the complex world of virtualization. It covers a large amount of territory in 340 pages. All of the major virtualization technologies are discussed, along with the various drivers for implementing virtualization, and how to manage migrating to a virtualized computing environment.

What makes this book stand out from most other resources on the topic is its tone. You're helpfully guided through the issues and tradeoffs in making a number of decisions on the what, where, when and how of virtualization. This is extremely helpful for an IT manager who needs to come up to speed in a short period of time.

One challenge that this book has is acknowledged in the introduction: "Alas, virtualization's fevered evolution shows no signs of diminishing -- good for the virtualization user, challenging for the virtualization writer". Indeed, the technology has evolved so rapidly since the printing of this book that a second edition is probably already in order.… (más)