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
- VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- Guest Operating System Installation Guide
Expand the items below to find the documentation for your product.
VMware Product Suites
- vCloud Suite Documentation
- vRealize Suite Documentation
- Operations Management Suite Documentation
- VMware Validated Designs
Data Center & Cloud Infrastructure
- Data Center Product Documentation
- VMware vSphere (ESX , ESXi, vCenter Server)
- VMware Administration Scripting Documentation for vSphere
- VMware vSphere Management Assistant
- VMware vSphere Command-Line Interface
- VMware vSphere PowerCLI Documentation
- Cloud Infrastructure Product Documentation
SDDC Platform
- SDDC Platform Product Documentation
Networking & Security
- Networking & Security Product Documentation
Infrastructure as a Service
- Infrastructure as a Service Product Documentation
Desktop & End User Computing
- Desktop & End User Computing Product Documentation
- VMware Horizon (all components)
- VMware Horizon 7
- VMware Horizon Cloud Service
- VMware Horizon Air Hybrid-Mode
- VMware Horizon Air
- VMware Horizon DaaS Platform
- VMware Workspace ONE
- VMware Horizon FLEX
- VMware Identity Manager
- VMware Unified Access Gateway
- VMware App Volumes
- VMware ThinApp
- VMware Dynamic Environment Manager
- VMware Mirage
- vRealize Operations for Horizon
- vRealize Operations for Published Applications
- VMware Workspace Portal
Consumer Desktop
- Consumer Desktop Product Documentation
Business Management
- VMware vRealize Business Product Documentation
Application Platform
- vFabric Product Documentation
Infrastructure & Operations Management
- VMware Infrastructure & Operations Management Product Documentation
- VMware vRealize Operations Manager
- VMware vRealize Configuration Manager
- VMware vRealize Log Insight
- VMware vRealize Network Insight
- VMware vCenter Infrastructure Navigator
- VMware vCenter Capacity IQ
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator
- VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
- VMware vSphere Data Protection
- VMware Software Manager
- 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
VMware SDKs & APIs
- VMware SDK & API Product Documentation
- VMware vSphere Web Services SDK
- VMware vCenter Single Sign On SDK
- VMware vSphere Storage Monitoring Service SDK
- VMware Storage Policy SDK
- VMware vSphere ESX Agent Manager API Reference
- VMware CIM APIs
- VMware vSphere Web Client SDK
- VMware Remote Console (VMRC) SDK
- VMware HTML Console SDK
- VMware vSphere SDK for Perl
- VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager API
- VMware OVF Tool
- VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK)
- VMware VIX API
- VMware VMCI Sockets
- VMware vSphere Guest SDK
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
- vSphere 4.x
- 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
- Archives for VMware vRealize Operations Manager
- Archives for VMware vCenter Operations Manager
- Archives for VMware vRealize Infrastructure Navigator
- Archives for VMware vRealize Business Standard
- Archives for VMware VMware vCenter Hyperic
- Archives for vRealize Operations Insight
- Archives for VMware Horizon Application Manager
- Archives for VMware Horizon Mobile
- 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
- Archives for VMware Fusion
- Archives for VMware Workstation
- Archives for VMware Player
- Archives 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
- Archives for VMware vCenter Chargeback
- VMware Infrastructure 3
- Deprecated Documentation