VMware Documentation
VMware provides a full range of technical documentation on our current products as well as older products. This documentation includes technical manuals, release notes, tools, and libraries.
The following links provide cross-product documentation and resources:
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- Guest Operating System Installation Guide
- VMware Technical Publications Glossary
Expand the items below to find the documentation for your product.
vCloud Suite Documentation
- vCloud Suite Documentation
Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure
- Datacenter Product Documentation
- VMware vSphere (ESX , ESXi, vCenter Server)
- VMware vSphere 4.1
- VMware vSphere 4.0
- ESXi 4.0 Embedded and vCenter Server 4.0
- ESXi 4.0 Installable and vCenter Server 4.0
- ESX 4.0 and vCenter Server 4.0
- VMware Administration Scripting Documentation for vSphere
- VMware vSphere Management Assistant
- VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface
- VMware vSphere PowerCLI Documentation
- VMware vSphere (ESX , ESXi, vCenter Server)
- Cloud Infrastructure Product Documentation
Horizon Suite Documentation
- Horizon Suite Documentation
Desktop & End User Computing
- Desktop & End User Computing Product Documentation
- Horizon Mobile Product Documentation
Consumer Desktop
- Consumer Desktop Product Documentation
IT Business Management
- IT Business Management Product Documentation
Application Platform
- vFabric Product Documentation
- vFabric Suite
- vFabric tc Server
- vFabric Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J)
- vFabric Web Server
- vFabric GemFire
- vFabric SQLFire
- vFabric RabbitMQ
- vFabric Hyperic
- vFabric Administration Server
- vFabric Postgres Standard Edition
- vFabric Application Performance Manager (APM), with vFabric AppInsight
- vFabric Application Director
- vFabric Data Director
- vFabric Enterprise Ready Server (ERS)
- vFabric Suite
Infrastructure & Operations Management
- VMware Infrastructure & Operations Management Product Documentation
- VMware vCenter Operations
- VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
- VMware vCenter Capacity IQ
- VMware vCenter Configuration Manager
- VMware vCenter Orchestrator
- VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- VMware vSphere Data Protection
- VMware vCenter Protect
- VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
- VMware vCenter Multi-Hypervisor Manager
- VMware vCenter Lab Manager
- VMware vCenter Lifecycle Manager
- VMware vCenter Converter Standalone
Application Management
- Application Management Product Documentation
Security
- Security Product Documentation
VMware SDKs & APIs
- VMware SDK & API Product Documentation
Archived and Deprecated Documentation
- Archived Documentation
- VMware Infrastructure 3
- ESXi 3.5 Embedded Edition and vCenter Server 2.5
- ESXi 3.5 Installable Edition and vCenter Server 2.5
- ESX 3.5 and vCenter Server 2.5
- ESX 3.0.1, 3.0.2, or 3.0.3 and VirtualCenter 2.0.1 or 2.0.2
- ESX 3.0 and VirtualCenter 2.0
- Archives for ESX Server 2.x
- Archives for VirtualCenter 1.x
- Archives for VMware GSX server
- Archives for VMware Importer
- Archives for VMware P2V Assistant
- Arhives for VMware ACE
- Archives for VMware vCenter Stage Manager
- Archives for VMware Server
- Archives for VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Archives for VMware vCenter AppSpeed
- VMware Infrastructure 3
- Deprecated Documentation