VMware vSphere 6.x HA Deepdive

Like many of you I am constantly trying to explore new ways to share content with the rest of the world. Over the course of the last decade I have done this in many different formats, some of them were easy to do and others not so much. Books always fell in that last category, which is a shame as I have always enjoyed writing them.

I wanted to explore the different options there are to create content and share it in different ways, without the need to re-do formatting and waste a lot of time on things I do not want to waste time on. After an afternoon of reading and researching GitBook popped up. It looked like an interesting platform / solution that would allow me to create content both online and offline, push and pull it to and from a repository and build both a static website from it as well as publish it in a variety of different formats.

Let it be clear that this is a trial, and this may or may not result in a follow up. I am starting with the vSphere High Availability content as that is what I am most familiar with and will be easiest to update.

A special thanks goes out to everyone who has contributed in any shape or form to this project. First of all Frank Denneman, the person whom I wrote the first 3 versions of the Clustering Deepdive with and who designed all the great diagrams which you find throughout this publication. Of course also: Doug Baer for editing the content in the past and my technical conscious: Keith Farkas, Cormac Hogan, Manoj Krishnan, Anne Holler, Mustafa Uysal and Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin.

For offline reading, feel free to download this publication in any of the following formats:
PDF - ePub - Mobi.

The source of this publication is stored on both Gitbook as well as Github. Feel free to submit/contribute where possible and needed. Note that it is also possible to leave feedback on the content by simply clicking on the "+" on the right side of the paragraph you want to comment on (hover over it with your mouse). I will read and incorporate feedback as soon as I have time, hence it is useful to check back regularly and validate your downloaded version against the details below.

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Thanks for reading, and enjoy!

Duncan Epping
Chief Technologist
Storage and Availability - VMware