About vSphere Virtual Machine Administration

vSphere Virtual Machine Administration describes how to create, configure, and manage virtual machines in the VMware vSphere^® environment.

At VMware, we value inclusion. To foster this principle within our customer, partner, and internal community, we have updated this guide to remove instances of non-inclusive language.

This guide provides introductions to the tasks that you can perform within the system and also cross-references to the documentation that describes the tasks in detail.

This information focuses on managing virtual machines and includes the following information.

• Creating and deploying virtual machines, templates, and clones
• Deploying OVF templates
• Using content libraries to manage templates and other library items
• Configuring virtual machine hardware and virtual machine options
• Managing multi-tiered applications with VMware vSphere vApp
• Monitoring solutions with the vCenter Solutions Manager
• Managing virtual machines, including using snapshots
• Upgrading virtual machines
• Troubleshooting virtual machines

vSphere Virtual Machine Administration covers VMware ESXi™ and VMware vCenter Server^®.

Intended Audience

This information is written for experienced Windows or Linux system administrators who are familiar with virtualization.