VMW Launchpad
While not guaranteed to answer all your VMware questions, this launchpad can get you to some of the most often requested and valuable information resource that I have encountered. I maintain this launchpad as a quick reference for myself and my clients, I hope you find it useful as well.
VMW Resources
- VMware Product Documentation Portal
- Hardware Compatibility Guide (systems, storage, IO devices…oh my!)
- VMware Technical Papers (VMware and 3rd Party)
- VMware Product Eval Downloads
- Key vSphere Documents
- vSphere Configuration Maximums

- vShpere Resource Management Guide
– discusses how vSphere 4 resource management
- vSphere Configuration Maximums
- Key VMware Communities
- VIOPS: where Operations Strategy rubbers meets the road
- VMware Beta Programs
My Most Recent VMW Related Articles
- Virtualization Round Up 20100307
- SRM 4.0 & Linux Failover Issue
- Virtualization Round Up 20091120
- VMware vSphere 4 U1 and Server Heartbeat 5.5 U2 Released
- VCE & Acadia the Tipping Point of Private Cloud?
- HP BladeSystem & vSphere 4.0 Reference Architecture
- Virtualization Round Up 20091005
- Virtualization Round Up 20090918
- Virtualization Round Up 20090824
- Virtualization Round Up 20090914
- Closed Source Buys Open Source V2.0
- Convergence of Private Clouds Presentation
- Virtualization Link Roundup 20090726
- VMware Network Port List
- Virtualization Link Roundup 20090710
- Fault Tolerance: Diamond in the Rough
- Virtualization Link Roundup 20090705
- VMware Studio 2.0 Beta Available
- Virtualization Link Roundup 20090619
- Virtualization Link Roundup 20090612
3rd Party VMW Resources
- VMware Network Port List: who talks to what over which port for VMware products.
- vRefernece Cards: Handy little PDF cheat sheet of information (courtesy of Forbes Guthrie of vReference)
- More comprehensive reference to VI3 command line commands (courtesy of Taupo Consulting)
- Mike Laverick’s RTFM Guides for VMware
- Virtualization Industry Radar from Virtualization.info – virtualization vendors and products
VMware Product/Function Acronym Key
CB = vCenter Chargeback
CIQ | CapIQ = vCenter Capacity IQ
FT = vSphere Fault Tolerance (function of vSphere)
HA = vSphere High Availability (function of vSphere)
LCM = vCenter LifeCycle Manager
LM = vCenter Lab Manager
SM = vCenter Stage Manager (now integrated with LM4)
SRM = vCenter Site Recovery Manager
VC = generally used to reference VirtualCenter Server
VI = Virtual Infrastructure (ESX 3.x)
VIEE = Virtual Infrastructure Enterprise Edition
vS | VS = vSphere (ESX 4.0)
VUM = vCenter Update Manager
The Virtualization Feeds I Subscribe To
(Disclosure: I am currently employed at VMware as a Global Accounts Solutions Consultant)


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