This page is a collection of useful resources, diagrams, reference documentation, Visio stencils, PowerPoint templates, calculators, simulators and other technical information.
It includes information from contributors from the VMware community and many major vendors like VMware, Cisco, NetApp, Dell, EMC, etc.
Performance
Interpreting esxtop Statistics.
Esxtop & vscsiStats vReference Card.
Networking
Connections and ports in ESX and ESXi – firewall diagram.
Connections and ports in ESX and ESXi – Excel list.
Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere.
Cisco UCS: What’s the maximum bandwidth per blade.
Cisco UCS: Maximum number of VIFs per blade.
Reference
Configuration Maximums VMware vSphere 5.5.
Configuration Maximums VMware vSphere 5.1.
Configuration Maximums VMware vSphere 5.0.
Configuration Maximums VMware vSphere 4.1.
Configuration Maximums VMware vSphere 4.0.
Enterprise Hypervisor Comparison.
Resource Pool Pie Paradox diagram.
VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes
Calculators
VDI Infrastructure calculator.
VDI Protocol and Bandwidth calculator.
Dell Energy Smart Solution Advisor.
Simulators
Tools
Free Virtual Health Monitor Description: VMTurbo’s Virtual Health Monitor (VHM) product provides full featured monitoring and reporting in an unlimited fashion across vSphere, Hyper-V, XenServer and RHEV. In addition, VHM collects metrics and on a weekly basis, provides insight into risk and efficiency information and potential improvements across the environment.
30 day Operations Manager Cloud Edition Free-Trial Description: Operations Manager maintains the data center in a healthy state rather than alerting when anomalies occur. IT operators are freed from reactive, firefighting to become more strategic; architects and planners are able to effectively plan for new virtual applications, users and hardware upgrades.
Visio stencils
VMTurbo Visio & OmniGraffle stencils.
Technodrone VMware stencil pack.
Dell Equallogic PS6000 series.