VMware vSphere Essentials for Infrastructure Engineers

VMware vSphere remains central to many enterprise environments. It turns physical hosts into pools of compute, storage, and network resources — and operators manage that layer every day through host health, VM placement, datastore capacity, and upgrade planning.

I’ve documented the core components, daily operational tasks, UCS integration patterns, and a common migration workflow that shows up repeatedly in production work.

Read the full guide: VMware

Learning Kubernetes on the side? See From VMware to Kubernetes for how the mental models map — and where they do not.

If you’re supporting vSphere clusters or planning migrations between vCenter environments, this page is a good starting reference.