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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:

Expand the items below to find the documentation for your product.

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Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure

Datacenter Product Documentation
- VMware vSphere (ESX , ESXi, vCenter Server)
  - VMware vSphere 5.0
  - VMware vSphere 4.1
  - VMware vSphere 4.0
    - ESXi 4.0 Embedded and vCenter Server 4.0
      - Update 1 and later
      - Initial Release
    - ESXi 4.0 Installable and vCenter Server 4.0
      - Update 1 and later
      - Initial Release
    - ESX 4.0 and vCenter Server 4.0
      - Update 1 and later
      - Initial Release
  - VMware Infrastructure 3
    - ESXi 3.5 Embedded Edition and vCenter Server 2.5
      - Update 2 and later
      - Initial Release and Update 1
    - ESXi 3.5 Installable Edition and vCenter Server 2.5
      - Update 2 and later
      - Initial Release and Update 1
    - ESX 3.5 and vCenter Server 2.5
      - Update 2 and later
      - Initial Release and Update 1
    - 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
- VMware Administration Scripting Documentation for vSphere
  - VMware vSphere Management Assistant
  - VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface
  - VMware vSphere PowerCLI Documentation
    - VMware vSphere PowerCLI
    - VMware vCenter Update Manager - PowerShell Library
Cloud Infrastructure Product Documentation
- VMware vCloud Director
- VMware vCloud Request Manager

Desktop & End User Computing

Desktop Product Documentation
Fusion for the Mac Product Documentation
- VMware Fusion

IT Business Management

IT Business Management Product Documentation
- VMware vCenter Chargeback

Application Platform

vFabric Product Documentation

Infrastructure & Operations Management

VMware Infrastructure & Operations Management Product Documentation

Application Management

Application Management Product Documentation

Security

Security Product Documentation
- VMware vShield Products

VMware SDKs & APIs

VMware SDK & API Product Documentation

Archived and Deprecated Documentation

Archived Documentation
Deprecated Documentation
- Programming API
- Scripting API

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