Oh Yay, Oh Yay, Oh Yay! VMReference have updated their indispensable ESX3 guide!

Download it here, print it out and treasure it, because it will be your friend forever.

Forbes Guthrie you are a king among men!

Edward L. Haletky has put together a rather comprehensive overview document of backups in a VMware virtualised environment that can be found here on vmprofessional.

It covers everything from the speed of the backups to level of compression gained using the following tools:

• VCB (Included with VMware ESX)
• Vizioncore vRanger (~
  
  Backups, esXpress, VCB, vRanger