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Guides
Unlike the blog — where posts stand alone — guides are series meant to be read in order. Each series targets a specific experience level, so you can start where you actually are instead of where documentation assumes you are.
Beginner friendly
Start here if the topic is new to you — no prior experience assumed, jargon explained as it appears.
vSAN for Dummies
5 partsA from-zero guide to VMware vSAN for people who have never touched hyperconverged infrastructure. Five parts, from 'what even is HCI' to running a cluster with confidence — building, breaking and operating it yourself.
- vSAN for Dummies, Part 1: What vSAN Actually Is (No Buzzwords)
- vSAN for Dummies, Part 2: How a vSAN Cluster Comes Together
- vSAN for Dummies, Part 3: Failures, Quorum, and Rebuilds
- vSAN for Dummies, Part 4: Policies Beyond Mirroring (and Where Your Capacity Goes)
- vSAN for Dummies, Part 5: Running It for Real
NSX for Dummies
5 partsA from-zero guide to VMware NSX for people who know what a VLAN is and nothing else. Part 1 builds the one mental model — overlay networking — that makes everything NSX does afterwards feel obvious.
- NSX for Dummies, Part 1: Networks Made of Software (Explained Without the Fog)
- NSX for Dummies, Part 2: How an NSX Overlay Fits Together
- NSX for Dummies, Part 3: Gateways, Edges, and the Route Out
- NSX for Dummies, Part 4: vDefend and the Security Layer Inside NSX
- NSX for Dummies, Part 5: Day-Two Operations Without the Panic
Intermediate
For working admins and engineers — assumes day-to-day familiarity with vSphere basics.
VCF Demystified
6 partsA practical map of VMware Cloud Foundation 9: its core components, operating model, and why a VCF fleet is more than a collection of vCenters.
- VCF Demystified, Part 1: Understanding VMware Cloud Foundation 9
- VCF Demystified, Part 2: The Foundation - Installer, Fleet, and Lifecycle
- VCF Demystified, Part 3: VCF Operations - Seeing and Running the Fleet
- VCF Demystified, Part 4: VCF Automation - From Requests to Governed Services
- VCF Demystified, Part 5: NSX - The Network and Security Fabric
- VCF Demystified, Part 6: vSAN - Storage as a Platform Service
Advanced
Deep dives for people who design and troubleshoot these systems for a living.
ESXi Scheduler Deep Dives
1 partAn advanced series on how ESXi actually schedules CPU. Part 1: why %RDY beats every other counter, what co-scheduling really costs wide VMs, and how to read esxtop like the scheduler sees it.