Tom MacKay of VMware was kind enough to pass along these useful resources via email, but they're definitely made for sharing.  So please check the links as well as the Shared Documents area of this site.  They will also be posted to the Central Ohio Communities Section of the VMware site.  Thanks so much Tom!  Please feel free to let Tom know how much you appreciate these the next time you see him.  In addition to that, feel free to let the authors/creators know how much you like them.

So here's the email as it was received:

Here are some great reference materials from a variety of authors you may or may not already be familiar...(8MB attached)

First, Dudley Smith’s great Ports and Connections poster as well as his Troubleshooting VI3 map. You can seek updates to this on his blog at http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/dudleysmith

From Hypervizor.com, Hany Michael’s excellent Memory Map for ESX. http://www.hypervizor.com/

And finally, the vReference handy guides by Forbes Guthrie. The poster sized one (18MB!) is available here: http://www.vReference.com/vsphere4-card/

Enjoy!

Thanks!
Tom

Thomas MacKay VCP, CNE, Master ASE
Senior Systems Engineer
US Central Region Strategic Accounts
VMware, Inc.

There are some upcoming presentations for those of you that are interested:

 

How to Safely Deploy VMs Without Impacting Performance

On this interactive webinar, one of our technical experts will walk you through VKernel's virtualization modeler products. We will quickly show you the benefits of our software and how you can start solving your critical pain points and optimizing your VMware infrastructure. We encourage you to ask questions and interact.

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Wed, Feb 17, 2010 9:00—10:00 AM EST
Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:00—10:00 AM EST

How to correctly size virtual machines

In about thirty minutes, we will show you how you can safely increase your VM densities and lower the cost per VM without affecting the performance of your existing VMware environment. By gaining immediate visibility into actual resource utilization, you can better allocate resources to get the most out of your existing virtualization hardware and software investment – saving you significant money and enabling you to delay future purchases.

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Tue, Feb 23, 2010 9:00—10:00 AM EST
Tue, Mar 23, 2010 9:00—10:00 AM EST

How to NOT over provision virtual machines

In about thirty minutes, we will show you how you can safely increase your VM densities and lower the cost per VM without affecting the performance of your existing VMware environment. By gaining immediate visibility into actual resource utilization, you can better allocate resources to get the most out of your existing virtualization hardware and software investment – saving you significant money and enabling you to delay future purchases.

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Tue, Feb 09, 2010 3:00—4:00 PM EST
Tue, Mar 09, 2010 3:00—4:00 PM EST

Effective Capacity Planning with VKernel's Free Capacity Modeler

On this interactive webinar, one of our technical experts will walk you through VKernel's virtualization modeler products. We will quickly show you the benefits of our software and how you can start solving your critical pain points and optimizing your VMware infrastructure. We encourage you to ask questions and interact.

Register Now:
Tue, Feb 02, 2010 2:00—3:00 PM EST
Tue, Mar 02, 2010 2:00—3:00 PM EST

Product Walkthrough

On this interactive webinar, one of our technical experts will walk you through VKernel's virtualization management and optimization software products. We will quickly show you the benefits of our software and how you can start solving your critical pain points. We encourage you to ask questions and interact.

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Thu, Feb 04, 2010 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST
Thu, Feb 04, 2010 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Thu, Feb 11, 2010 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Thu, Feb 18, 2010 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST
Thu, Feb 25, 2010 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

 

 

We have been evaluating CapacityIQ and I wanted to get some info out to you. Then I was trying to catch up on my podcasts when I heard this one #78.  In the discussion a site is mentions http://www.virtualinsanity.com/ and an article they published.  It is a really good artilce so instead duplicating work I am going to point you to their site's article.  In other news the presentations from January's VMUG have been published under the Shared Documents.  Also to make it easier to keep up FeedBurner has been installed so you can get e-mail from when the site is updated.  Here is a look at next month's meetings:

Agenda
8:30 a.m.  Check-In / Welcome 
9:00 a.m.  Hyper9 presents “Take Back Time:  Virtualization Best Practices – Reporting  by Zahid Ghauri, Director of Systems Engineering

Discussing virtualization best practices and technology around storage, VM sprawl, and management level reporting using VMware vSphere and Hyper9. Learn about the practical ins and outs of virtualization reporting and best practices that address the challenges related to storage (how to squeeze the most disk space out of your environment as possible), VM sprawl (how many VMs do you actually have and which VMs are you actually using?), and management reporting (who owns that and how much does it cost?)

10:15 a.m.  Ryan Troy author O'Reilly's VMware Cookbook: A Real-World Guide to Effective VMware Use  (Presentation TBD)

Ryan Troy has over 12 years of Unix/Linux system administration experience, working in diverse industries that range from web hosting to the newspaper industry. He founded the now-official Ubuntu Linux forums (ubuntuforums.org) in October 2004 and currently serves as technical administrator and chairman of the Ubuntu Forum Council. *Matthew Helmke has written articles for magazines such as Linux+ and Linux Identity, and helped write Prentice Hall's The Official Ubuntu Book. He is an active member of the Ubuntu Linux community as an Administrator and Forum Council member for the Ubuntu Forums (ubuntuforums.org), and a member of the membership approval committee for Ubuntu in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

11:15 a.m.  Questions/WrapUp /Giveaways  (TrainSignal VMware training videos, Best Buy gift cards and Hyper9 T-Shirts)

 

Happy New year and I hope to see you at the January VMUG. We will have HyTrust sponsoring and presenting at the event as well as a security presentation from Jeff Szastak. HyTrust will be giving away an Amazon Kindle at the end of the meeting so don't forget to bring business cards. Also be sure to check out the VMware forum as we are already booked out through 2011. Also we are still looking for feedback on the All day VMUG in May, so if you have any idea's let us know. I will also have some more Train Signal VMware training videos for February's meeting.