VMware – Best practices for creating VMware View “Golden Master” Images
Creating "Golden Master" images can be broken down into two main parts Optimizing the VM within ESX Optimizing the Operating System For a complete overview see Best practices …
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VMware Capacity Planner Overview
VMware Capacity Planner is a business and IT capacity planning tool for the datacenter and desktop that provides an integrated set of analysis, planning and decision support functions …
VMware – Support Toolbar
The VMware Support Toolbar gives you instant access to documentation, patches, live peer to peer chat and more. It can be downloaded at http://vmwaresupport.toolbar.fm/ httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W875WccJ_E
VMware – vscsiStats
vscsiStats can be used to perform storage performance analyses. vscsiStats collects and reports counters on storage activity. Its data is collected at the virtual SCSI device level in …
VMware – Powershell
How te get started with Powershell. Download and install Powershell from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/ Powershell 1.0: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926139 Powershell 2.0: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968930 Add Registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\PowerShell\1\ShellIds\Microsoft.PowerShell\ExecutionPolicy and set to “RemoteSigned” (REG_SZ) Download …
VMware – esxtop
A very good article about ESXTOP can be found at http://www.yellow-bricks.com/esxtop/ Reference card: http://www.vreference.com/public/vReference-esxtop1.2.pdf Read also the VMware article http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-9279
VMware 3.5 upgrade to vSphere (Video)
Upgrading your Virtual Infrastructure Management Components http://download3.vmware.com/vsphere/vsphere-migration-part1.html ESX Host Migration Methods http://download3.vmware.com/vsphere/vsphere-migration-part2.html Virtual Machine Upgrades http://download3.vmware.com/vsphere/vsphere-migration-part3.html Implementing vSphere Licensing http://download3.vmware.com/vsphere/vsphere-migration-part4.html
Support Validation Wizard
To know if a Microsoft Product is supported on VMware (or another hypervisor), Microsoft has an easy to use support validation wizard
VMware vCenter Orchestrator
VMware vCenter Orchestrator is a powerful workflow solution designed to automate tasks for VMware vSphere and allows orchestration between multiple solutions. Through an easy drag-and-drop interface, administrators can automate tasks …