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A great list over at VMwareLand has been compiled of lots of top tens relating to VMware and Virtualisation.

They include:

Top 10 free tools that should be in every VMware administrator’s toolkit

Top 10 things you must read when trying to sell VMware as a solution to managementTop 10 things you must read about VirtualCenterTop 10 things you must read about VMware PerformanceTop 10 things you must read about Memory

• Top 10 free tools that should be in every VMware administrator’s toolkit
• Top 10 things you must read when trying to sell VMware as a solution to management
• Top 10 things you must read if you are new to VMware
• Top 10 things you must read to get more technical with VI3
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Storage (SAN/NAS/iSCSI/NFS)
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Security
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Troubleshooting
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Networking
• Top 10 things you must read about VirtualCenter
• Top 10 things you must read about VMware Performance
• Top 10 things you must read about Memory
• Top 10 things you must read about the ESX Service Console
• Top 10 things you must read about Disaster Recover/Business Continuity and VMware

Check it out here.

ICT Freak have posted about how to use a connection to the VirtualCenter SQL Server database from Excel to display useful VMotion information.

Check out article here.

You think you know everything about VirtualCenter?!?  You don’t until you have read all the articles listed on this post at Virtual Strategy Magazine.

This article picks out some of the very best white papers and how-to papers that are out there for VirtualCenter.

Enjoy!

Just a quick note to point out that VMware have posted a new white paper on performance enhancements in VirtualCenter 2.5 database.

The white paper discusses sizing of the database server, test results of performance test and much more.

The document can be found here.