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VMware vSphere beginner's guide
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Cathleen A. Gagne, Senior Editorial Director
If you're a newer VMware administrator, a student, or you just can't quite get a grip on the latest from VMware, this is where you want to begin. This part of the multi-tiered VMware vSphere guide provides you with resources that will help you learn what vSphere is made up of including explanations of new technologies that weren't present in older versions of the ESX hypervisor, and more.
VMware management and performance monitoring
guide
VMware management and performance monitoring tools are essential for a VMware
infrastructure. If you want optimal VMware performance, it's important to familiarize yourself with
these key VMware monitoring tools and trends.
VMware security best practices
guide
This resource guide covers some of the major VMware security risks facing admins today, then
offers VMware security best practices to address those problems. The guide also includes links to
additional VMware security resources.
VMware scripts and commands: A management
guide
Because VMware is a mature virtualization platform, it has several native and third-party
management options. Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) provide intuitive and conceptual ways to
manage VMware environments, but they generally don't scale well for large or repetitive tasks.
These activities -- such as mass provisioning and configuring of virtual machines (VMs) -- are best
suited for VMware scripts and commands. The following resources provide a detailed look at VMware's
command line options as well as scripts and commands for monitoring and managing VMware
environments.
VMware ThinApp tutorial: Resources on VMware
virtualized applications
VMware ThinApp is application virtualization software that condenses a program and its
associated data into a single executable file. For IT pros unfamiliar with the nuances of
virtualized applications, this VMware ThinApp tutorial provides valuable and informative
resources.
This was first published in February 2011