VMW Launchpad

While not guaranteed to answer all your VMwarequestions, 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
• VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes
• Hardware Compatibility Guide (systems, storage, IO devices…oh my!)
• VMware Technical Papers (VMware and 3rd Party)
• VMware Product Eval Downloads
• Key vSphere 5.0 Documents
• What’s New in vSphere 5.0
• Configuration Maximums for vSphere 5.0 
• Key vSphere 4.1 Documents
  • What’s New in vSphere 4.1
  • Configuration Maximums for vSphere 4.1
  • Resource Management Guide – discusses how vSphere 4.1 resource management works
• Key VMware Communities
  • VIOPS: the VMware Operations Strategy community
  • VMware Beta Programs

My 10 Most Recent VMW Related Articles

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)
  • vSphere 4 Card
  • VI3 Card
• More comprehensive reference to VI3 command line commands (courtesy of Taupo Consulting)
  • B2V Command Line Guide to VMware ESX Server 4 (vSphere)
  • B2V Command Line Guide to VMware ESX Server 3
• Mike Laverick’s RTFM Guides for VMware
• Virtualization Industry Radar from Virtualization.info – virtualization vendors and products

The Virtualization Feeds I Subscribe To

(Disclosure: I am currently employed at VMware as a Global Accounts Solutions Consultant)