DISCLAIMER:  All of the information provided on this page is simply informational.  This is not formally endorsed VMware information, just a helpful page to find things that may assist a VI-3 engineer/administrator. 

Andrew's interesting VMware links:

VMware Education Schedule page

Veeam Software - makers of FastSCP (free), VEEAM Reporter, VEEAM Configurator, VEEAM Monitor and VEEAM RootAccess.  They also have some very cool Visio Stencils for virtualization that are free.

RTFM Education - Lots of virtualization information, but specifically, go to the menu on the right hand side, navigate to RTFM Guides and you will find the Guide to the ESX 3 Service Console - a document that contains useful and practical uses of the ESXCFG and other ESX specific commands.

Vizioncore - makers of esxRanger (backups) along with a suite of other useful VI-3 based applications including esxMigrator, esxCharter and esxReplicator

Platespin - makers of PowerConvert (Physical to Virtual migration utility).  They also have PowerRecon, which is a tool that is used to evaluate your infrastructure for server consolidation projects.

FabulaTech - these folks make USB over IP and Network Serial Port solutions.  Great for mapping USB Dongles and fax modems to Virtual Machines.

Microsoft Windows Licensing and VMs

Andrew's VCP Test prep guidelines:

Use the VCP Exam Blueprint as your guide...

Then you should read these two documents cover to cover:

    Basic System Administration Guide

    Installation and Upgrade Guide

Of course, your VI-3 coursenotes and labs are one of your best sources for information, but there are other gems to be had in these two guides.  Don't forget, the Exam Blueprint is your first source for "things to know for the exam".  If they reference something that is in one of the other documents on the VMware site and you don't understand that concept - go and get that document and read the relevant portions...

Miscellaneous technical tidbits:

Installing ESX on Workstation 6

Configuring NTP on ESX Hosts (click the link)

Purpose of step-tickers file (click the link)

Partition table issues for scripted installations:

Sometimes when building a scripted installation, the save of the kickstart script can sometimes mess up one or two of the lines - particularly the vmfs3 line.  Your partitioning portion of the file should read something like the following (assuming an HP host with the CCISS controller and a local installation of ESX).

part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
part / --fstype ext3 --size 4997 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
part swap --size 1600 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
part /var --fstype ext3 --size 4096 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
part /var/log --fstype ext3 --size 4096 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
part /tmp --fstype ext3 --size 1024 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
part None --fstype vmkcore --size 100 --ondisk cciss/c0d0
part None --fstype vmfs3 --size 1 --grow --ondisk cciss/c0d0