Everything about VMware

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: VMwareA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Implementing and Managing Hyper-Converged Infrastructure with VMware vSAN and Azure Stack HCIInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: VMware cookbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Memory resource management in VMware ESX serverCited 426 times
5. Go sideways: VMware ESXA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: VMware vSphereA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Memory resource management in VMware ESX server

  Carl A. Waldspurger · 2002 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 426 citations

• The VMware mobile virtualization platform

  Ken Barr, Prashanth Bungale, Stephen Deasy · 2010 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 101 citations

• Bringing Virtualization to the x86 Architecture with the Original VMware Workstation

  Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Mendel Rosenblum · 2012 · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 80 citations

• A research on the investigation method of digital forensics for a VMware Workstation’s virtual machine

  Sungsu Lim, Byeongyeong Yoo, Jungheum Park · 2012 · Mathematical and Computer Modelling · 10 citations

• Study of Smart Transportation Data Center Virtualization Based on VMware vSphere and Parallel Continuous Query Algorithm over Massive Data Streams

  Jia Chaolong, Wang Hanning, Wei Lili · 2016 · Procedia Engineering · 10 citations

• Online anomaly detection for multi‐source VMware using a distributed streaming framework

  Mohiuddin Solaimani, Mohammed Iftekhar, Latifur Khan · 2016 · Software: Practice and Experience · 8 citations

• Bringing Platform Harmony to VMware NSX

  Justin Pettit, Ben Pfaff, Joe Stringer · 2018 · ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review · 8 citations

• Performance analysis virtual server VMware Vsphere 5.5 with physical enterprise server

  Dwi Ely Kurniawan, Muhammad Nashrullah, Nuning Kurniasih · 2018 · IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering · 6 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Implementing and Managing Hyper-Converged Infrastructure with VMware vSAN and Azure Stack HCI

  Raja Venkata Sandeep Davu · 2024 · Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science · 3 citations

• Implementing a Disaster Recovery Solution for Datacenters Using VMware Site Recovery Manager

  Khaled Elgdamsi, Mohamed Embarak · 2023 · Tobruk University Journal of Engineering Sciences · 2 citations

• Application and Implementation of VMware-Based Virtualization Technology in Civil Aviation Meteorological Systems

  艳 王 · 2023 · Software Engineering and Applications · 1 citations

• Challenges And Issues Of Managing The Virtualization Environment Through Vmware Vsphere

  · 2024 · Nanotechnology Perceptions · 1 citations

• Pelatihan Instalasi Sistem Operasi Komputer dengan VMWARE

  Prayuda Bowono, Fahrizal Setiawan, Herlan Ryuchi Christian · 2024 · ARembeN Jurnal Pengabdian Multidisiplin · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• VMware cookbookRyan Troy · 2009
• Mastering VMware Infrastructure 3Chris McCain · 2008
• Maximum VsphereSimon Seagrave · 2010
• VCP5-DCV Official Certification GuideBill Ferguson · 2019
• 📕DevOps for VMware administratorsTrevor Roberts · 2015
• 📕Vmware Horizon Workspace EssentialsPeter Von Oven, Peter Bjork · 2014
• Critical Vmware Mistakes You Should AvoidLarry Loucks · 2011
• Instant VMware View Virtualization How-toRamesh Geddam, Prasenjit Sarkar · 2013

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