Документация
На данной странице собран полный набор документации по VMware vSphere 4 (официальной и неофициальной), а также отдельным компонентам VMware ESX, ESXi, vCenter и всему прочему, что входит в состав виртуальной инфраструктуры VMware. Страница постоянно обновляется!
Обновления до VMware vSphere (Upgrade):
- VMware vSphere Upgrade Guide
- VMware vSphere Upgrade Center
- VMware vSphere: Got 64-bit hardware?
- vSphere Pre-requisites Checklist
- vSphere 4.0 Software Compatibility Matrix
- vSphere Upgrade Center Blog
- The Path to vSphere Unleashed Pt 1 - VMware VirtualCenter Management Components
- The Path to vSphere Unleashed Pt 2 - VMware ESX Host Migration Methods
- The Path to vSphere Unleashed Pt 3 - Virtual Machine Upgrades (VMware Tools and Virtual Hardware)
- The Path to vSphere Unleashed Pt 4 - Implementing VMware vSphere Licensing
- How to Upgrade from VMware Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4 (May 27th)
- Upgrading to ESX 4.0 and vCenter 4.0 best practices (KB Article)
- Upgrading an ESX 3.x virtual machine to ESX 4.0 (KB Article)
- Upgrading ESXi 3.5 hosts with OEM server vendor’s specific components to ESXi 4.0 (KB Article)
- How to create default alarms when upgrading to vSphere 4.0 (KB Article)
- When you use VMware vSphere to perform an ESX host upgrade, the upgrade might fail (KB Article)
- Sometimes the upgrade from ESXi 3.5 to ESXi 4.0 fails when the host is trying to reboot (KB Article)
- Performing an offline upgrade from ESX 3.x to ESX 4.0 on a local ESX host (KB Article)
Официальная документация VMware:
Главный набор документации:
- Main doc link
- Download the complete ESXi 4.0 Embedded and vCenter Server 4.0 Documentation Set
- Download the complete ESXi 4.0 Installable and vCenter Server 4.0 Documentation Set
- Download the complete ESX 4.0 and vCenter Server 4.0 Documentation Set
Документы VMware vSphere 4 по отдельности:
- Documentation Roadmap
- What’s New in vSphere 4.0
- Configuration Maximums for VMware vSphere 4.0
- VMware vSphere Compatibility Matrixes
- Introduction to VMware vSphere
- Getting Started with ESX
- ESX and vCenter Server Installation Guide
- Upgrade Guide
- Basic System Administration
- vSphere Web Access Administrator’s Guide
- ESX Configuration Guide
- Resource Management Guide
- Availability Guide
- Fibre Channel SAN Configuration Guide
- iSCSI SAN Configuration Guide
VMware ESXi:
- Getting Started with ESXi Installable
- Getting Started with ESXi Embedded
- ESXi Installable and vCenter Server Setup Guide
- ESXi Embedded and vCenter Server Setup Guide
- ESXi Configuration Guide
Разные guides и whitepapers:
- Setup for Failover Clustering and Microsoft Cluster Service
- vSphere Command-Line Interface Installation and Reference Guide
- License Server Configuration for vCenter Server 4.0
- ESX 4 Patch Management Guide
- Guest Operating System Installation Guide
Продукт VMware Update Manager:
- vCenter Update Manager Release Notes
- vCenter Update Manager Administration Guide
- vCenter Update Manager Sizing Estimator
Продукт VMware Converter:
Продукт VMware vCenter Orchestrator:
- VMware vCenter Orchestrator Release Notes
- VMware vCenter Orchestrator Installation and Configuration Guide
- VMware vCenter Orchestrator Administration Guide
- VMware vCenter Orchestrator Developer’s Guide
- VMware vCenter Orchestrator Example Applications
VMware Consolidated Backup и vStorage API for Data Recovery:
Автоматизация администрирования VMware vSphere:
- Как использовать возможности VMware vSphere Management Assistant (vMA)
- vSphere Management Assistant Guide
- vSphere Management Assistant (vMA) 4.0 Release Notes
- vSphere Command-Line Interface manual
- vSphere Command-Line Interface 4.0 Release Notes
- vSphere SDK for Perl Installation Guide
- vSphere SDK for Perl Programming Guide
- vSphere SDK for Perl Release Notes
- vSphere PowerCLI Installation Guide
- vSphere PowerCLI Administration Guide
- vSphere SDK for .NET Developer’s Guide
- VMware vSphere PowerCLI 4.0 Release Notes
- VMware vCenter Update Manager - PowerShell Library 1.0
Продукт VMware vShield Zones:
- vShield Zones 1.0 Release Notes
- vShield Zones 1.0 FAQ
- Introduction to vShield Zones
- vShield Zones Quick Start Guide
- vShield Zones Administration Guide
Продукт VMware Data Recovery:
Продукт vCenter Server Heartbeat:
- vCenter Server Heartbeat 5.5 Update 1 Release Notes
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Quick Start
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Reference Guide
Скачать продукты VMware vSphere и другие:
Лицензирование продуктов VMware:
- Main Licensing Page
- VMware vSphere Licensing FAQs
- VMware vSphere 4 Licensing Troubleshooting Guide
- VMware vSphere Upgrade Center - Licensing
- vSphere 4 Pricing, Packaging and Licensing Overview
- vSphere Editions Comparison
- vSphere Key Features & Benefits Summary
- vSphere 4 Essentials Editions
- Comparison of product offerings for vSphere 4.0 and VMware Infrastructure 3.X (KB Article)
- vSphere - What’s New in Licensing
- vSphere Upgrade Entitlement Mapping
Совместимость оборудования (Hardware Compatibility Guide) с VMware vSphere:
- Main Search Page
- Systems Search Page
- Storage/SAN Search Page
- I/O Devices Search Page
- Full Compatibility Guide
Безопасность VMware vSphere
- VMware vSphere 4.0 Security Hardening Guide
- Безопасность Service Console для VMware ESX 4 от vSphere: как войти пользователем root и использовать sudo
- Аутентификация и политики паролей в VMware ESX / vSphere под Service Console
- Как ограничить доступ к VMware vCenter через Web Access по IP-адресу
- Как отключить VMware vCenter Web Access для vSphere в целях безопасности
- 18 полезных статей о безопасности VMware Virtual Infrastructure / vSphere (ESX / ESXi)
- Безопасность серверов VMware ESX / ESXi – информация о пользователях и их действиях
- Основные принципы безопасности в среде VMware Virtual Infrastructure на платформе ESX Server. Часть 1 – виртуальные машины
- Active Directory и серверы VMware ESX
Заметки к релизам VMware vSphere (Release Notes):
База знаний VMware Knowledge Base:
Заметки к VMware vSphere от vReference (идеально для подготовки к экзамену VMware VCP):
Онлайн база документов VMware vSphere Online Library
Загрузчик документации VMware Documentation Downloader от Xtravirt
Производительность VMware vSphere 4
- Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 4.0
- Производительность сервера VMware ESX и виртуальных машин - решение проблем с помощью esxtop и resxtop
Все, что касается работы приложений на VMware vSphere:
- Oracle covering licensing and best practices
- Java covering performance
- Symantec eVault
- Lotus Domino
- Active Directory
- SAP
- SunGard Ambit
- Exchange 2007
- SQL Server
Инструкции по установке VMware vSphere, ESX, ESXi, vCenter на русском языке
Подготовка к экзаменам и сертификация VMware VCP по vSphere - VCP410:
- vSphere 4 Reference Card
- vSphere Documentation Notes
- Как сдать экзамен VMware VCP по vSphere ( VCP410 )
Поддерживаемые VMware vSphere гостевые и хостовые ОС:
Неофициально о VMware ESXi:
- PXE Booting VMware ESXi (VMware)
- ESXi 4 Quick Install Guide (Xtravirt)
- ESX3i to ESX4i Update (Technodrone)
- Upgrade ESXi 3.x to 4.0 Video (VMware Tips)
- Installing VMware ESXi 4.0 on a USB Memory Stick - The Official Way (TechHead)
- vSphere ESXi on a USB memory stick (Yellow Bricks)
- Three ways to kill a frozen vSphere ESXi host virtual machine (Virtualization Pro)
- How-to install ESXi 4.0 on USB memory Key (ESX Virtualization)
- Create ESXi 4 USB flash drives with Workstation (vCritical)
- The Mechanics of VMware GO (SearchVMware.com)
- Using VMware Go to get going on your ESXi virtualization project (SearchVMware.com)
- Using ESXi & VMware Go - Part 1 Download & Install (Professional VMware)
- VIDEO: Jumpstart ESXi and P2V with VMware GO (VMware Videos)
- ESXi Lessons Learned - Part 1 (Yellow Bricks)
- ESXi Lessons Learned - Part 2 (Yellow Bricks)
- VMware Easter Egg? Easy Install of ESXi 4 On VMware Player 3.0 (VM/ETC)
- VMWare ESXi 4.0 Installation on UCS Blade Server with UCS Manager KVM (Cisco)
- 10 Reasons why VMware ESXi 4 is perfect for the SMB (Virtualization Admin)
- 10 Steps to Install and Use the Free VMware ESXi 4 (Virtualization Admin)
- Restarting the Management agents on an ESX or ESXi Server (VMware KB)
VMware Fault Tolerance
- VMware Fault Tolerance Recommendations and Considerations on VMware vSphere 4(VMware)
- Protecting Mission-Critical Workloads with VMware Fault Tolerance (VMware)
- VMware vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance: Architecture and Performance (VMware)
- Fault Tolerance Datasheet (VMware)
- Master’s guide to VMware Fault Tolerance (Virtualization Pro)
- VMware Fault Tolerance: What it is and how it works (Virtualization Pro)
- More details on VMwares Fault Tolerance Feature (Virtualization Pro)
- New SiteSurvey utility from VMware checks for Fault Tolerance compatibility (Virtualization Pro)
- VMware engineers caution IT pros: Use Fault Tolerance sparingly (SearchServerVirtualization)
- FT Problem Decoder Chart (Virtualization Evangelist)
- Not All FT Compatible CPUs Are Created Equal (Virtualization Evangelist)
- After enabling FT on a VM - subtleties to expect (Virtualization Evangelist)
- vSphere FT disk format (Musings of Rodos)
- How does Fault Tolerance prevent a split brain scenario? (The VM Guy)
- vSphere 4.0 Fault Tolerance (Architecture Diagram, Video and Use Cases) (HyperVizor)
- Video: vSphere4 Unleashed: 04 - Fault Tolerance (HyperVizor)
- List of VMware FT (Fault Tolerant) compatible CPUs (Gabes Virtual World)
- Fault Tolerance Checklist (NTPro)
- CPU compatibility with VMware Fault Tolerance (NTPro)
- VMware Fault Tolerance at your home-lab (NTPro)
- Disaster Recovery and vSphere 4.0 Fault Tolerance (Xtravirt)
- Comparing Performance of 1vCPU Nehalem VM with 2vCPU Harpertown VM (VMware VROOM!)
- Performance of Exchange Server 2007 in a Fault Tolerant Virtual Machine (VMware VROOM!)
- Scheduling VMware’s FT (Professional VMware)
- VMware FT (Virtualised Reality)
- Demo of Fault Tolerance (video)
- Meet the Engineer - VMware Fault Tolerance (video)
- Fault Tolerance discussion on VMware Communities Roundtable (podcast)
- Fault Tolerant VMs in VMware Infrastructure: Operation and Best Practices (VMworld 2008)
- VMware Fault Tolerance Architecture and Performance (BC2961) (VMworld 2009)
- VMware Fault Tolerance Real-World Use Cases (BC3369) (VMworld 2009)
- VMware Fault Tolerance - Overview and Best Practices (BC3370) (VMworld 2009)
- VMware Fault Tolerance - vSphere Workflows and API Considerations (BC3602) (VMworld 2009)
- VMware Fault Tolerance FAQ (KB Article)
- Reducing FT logging traffic for disk read intensive workloads (KB Article)
- Processors and guest operating systems that support VMware Fault Tolerance (KB Article)
- VMware Fault Tolerance migration transition states (KB Article)
- Understanding VMware Fault Tolerance (KB Article)
- The turn on Fault Tolerance option is disabled (KB Article)
