Just starting out with VI3 and VC; Are hard copies available of the

[ghelton]

VMware Infrastructure 3 and VirtualCenter 2.5 documentation? I've got the link to the online docs,

but would like to purchase printed copies too. Do any exist?

[Troy_Clavell]

that would be nice if you could get an already printed out book of all the VI3 documentation. The documentation is changing often, so my choice would to be just save the .pdf's to your system, print them out if needed and check back periodically for updated information.

Hope this helps.

[pshearduk]

When my company first purchased ESX 3.0 we got printed admin guide, server config etc and the media to go with it, but since then I have been studying for VCP on ESX 3.5 so d/loaded all the PDF's and quite literally spent a whole day printing off (duplex) and binding the things

I'm not good at reading and studying from "on screen" PDF's so in my opinion it was worth the little bit of effort..

regards

Paul

[ghelton]

Yeah, that's what I'm doing as I go. I just have a few OS's that have official printed guides and documents. It's just so nice to have that compact printed instruction rather than toting around a big thick binder.

So we're in the process of ordering VI3 Enterprise and VirtualCeneter Management server. Will any books come with it?

[Texiwill]

Hello,

No books come with anything as you get a license redemption key, and everything is then downloaded. The PDFs as well..... The documents change regularly so having printed copies may not be the best way to go. But you could print your own or invest on some of the other books out there.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.

CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354

As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

[pshearduk]

I'm not sure about that.. it may be worth seeing if a "media kit" can be added at the time of purchase. You may need to pay a little extra but will be worth the extra cash so you can study/learn

[pshearduk]

This should be ok..

[ghelton]

Isn't that for VMware server and not ESX? I have been playing around with VMware Server; Installing the eval copy of virtual center right now. But I'm a newbie so I could sure be wrong.:)

[pshearduk]

DOH! no you are correct mate, that is for VMware server (apologies)

I certainly got a media kit when we 1st ordered ESX (via IBM) .. but I'm not sure why or how this was..