This 120 page guide was just published by VMware last week and is full of great information related to vSphere. It covers all the major features in vSphere including what they are, use cases for them and how to setup and use them. Don’t let the title of the guide fool you, this guide is great mini-install/upgrade doc and is useful for anyone using vSphere. Here’s a list of the topics covered in the guide:
- vNetwork Standard Switch Configuration
- iSCSI Storage Configuration
- ESX Host Cluster Setup
- High Availability (HA)
- VMotion
- Fiber Channel Storage Configuration
- Host Profiles
- Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Distributed Power Management
- Fault Tolerance
- Storage VMotion and Thin Provisioning
- VMware vApp
- Update Manager
- Linked Mode
- vNetwork Distributed Switch (vDS)
- Private VLAN
- Hot Add
- Dynamic Storage Management
- Alarms
- Management Assistant (vMA)
- PowerCLI
- Basic Network Troubleshooting
- Basic Storage Troubleshooting
- Basic vCenter Server Troubleshooting
