Free book

Packt Publishing gives away a different ebook daily. The reason I'm posting this in the vAcademy blog is that for roughly the next 24 hours, they are offering Hersey Cartwright's book, "VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook" for free. You'll need to sign up for an account. The link:

https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

Dell to buy EMC

Dell to buy EMC

Free books (yesterday's and today's were virtualization-related)

Just in case y'all missed it, Packt Publishing is _still_ running their "free book every day" offering. Yesterday's book was "Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide". Today's book is "Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2". This latter will be available until around 7 p.m. Friday (that's when they change out the books). See: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/free-learning

SQL proxies

Will be taking a look at the following (mentioned in last night's class), just to see any can be used in conjunction with a lab config for ESXi 5.0:

• PL/Proxy - proxies PostgreSQL connections
• Myosotis - translates PostgreSQL and MySQL to JDBC
• Tungsten - can translate between SQLs but unsure if it's replication or proxying 

 Will keep y'all posted.

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