Hardening guides for vSphere 4

It’s been published few days ago. A hardening Guides for vSphere 4.

It’s easy to follow PDF guides explaining why and how to do stuff. There are also links to other resources on VMware website.

The PDF guides are not in it’s final version. The on-line versions are just public draft (Revision B) for now.

So those PDFs are just great for all VMware administrators, who want to go a bit further. It’s a great source of how-to…

But, you might wonder how to get started with vSphere and virtual Infrastructure? Why don’t you check out my post about Train Signal who does some great videos about vSphere 4?

With David Davis as an Instructor, you’ll learn to prepare your future VCP Certification Exam. Watch this video about cloning in vSphere 4.

You can check it out. All the PDF guides are available from this page here: download and check it.

There is Five different PDFs, each one for different section of the Virtual infrastructure:

• Console OS (for ESX)
• vCenter
• Virtual Machines
• Host
• vNetwork

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