Disaster recovery is quickly becoming one of the more powerful and top use cases in the server virtualization market.  VMware has created its Site Recovery Manager (SRM) product to help eliminate the complexity of managing and testing recovery plans.  And now, Mike Laverick is once again helping to remove the complexity of SRM. 

Yes, the same person who has helped removed the complexity from so many other virtualization platforms and products is now attempting to take that same quick and easy approach to get you through your implementation of VMware SRM. 

If you are the least bit familiar with Mike Laverick's RTFM Guides, you will be happy to know that Mike is close to finishing up his own self-published book which sounds like it will be yet another winner in the virtualization help department.

Over at the RTFM Web site, Mike said his book is in the draft phase and going through some proof reading and editing.  He is even offering up a sample chapter... a really good one that covers the hot topic of PowerShell.  Mike writes:

The MOST interesting parts are the PowerShell pieces that allow you to do bulk administration tasks - neccessary in handling many virtual machines and ESX hosts it includes:

* Getting up and Started with Microsoft Community Technical Preview of PowerShell 2.0 with the VMware Community Extensions
* Rescan all the HBA on every ESX hosts in VirtualCenter
* Renaming VMFS volumes
* Creating a internal vSwitch on all ESX hosts with .PS1 file - prior to a test failover
* Searching a VMFS volume, and registering VMs to the right folder & resource pool
* Fixing the Networking of many VMs so that the point to the right port-group

Check out this chapter online at RTFM.  And I invite you to check out Mike's other guides online as well.  This is a great Web site, and Mike does a fantastic job trying to help educate the masses on some pretty confusing and complex topics.