VMware vSphere Best Practices

Best Practice for vSphere 5.X
Upgrade to vSphere 5 Best Practices
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vSphere-5-Upgrade-Best-Practices-Guide.pdf
VMware HA vSphere 5 Best Practices
http://blogs.vmware.com/uptime/2011/08/vsphere-ha-50-best-practices-guide-now-available.html
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmw-vsphere-high-availability.pdf
Performance vSphere 5 Best Practices
http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2011/08/performance-best-practices-for-vmware-vsphere-50.html
Distributed Switches vSphere 5 Best Practices
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsphere-distributed-switch-best-practices.pdf
vCenter server Upgrade vSphere 5 Best Practices
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vSphere-5-Upgrade-Best-Practices-Guide.pdf
AutoDeploy
http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vsphere.install.doc_50/GUID-980D9E38-633E-4557-9144-AC422FA239C5.html
VMware Update Manager vSphere 5 Best Practices
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vum-perf-vsphere5.pdf
Site Recovery Manager 5
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10239
VMware View 5
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/view/VMware-View-Performance-Study-Best-Practices-Technical-White-Paper.pdf
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-View-Backup-Best-Practices.pdf
MS Exchange 2010 on vSphere 5 Best Practices
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/exchange-perf-vsphere5.pdf
Oracle on vSphere 5 Best Practices
https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-11545


Best Practice for vSphere 4.X vSphere 4 security hardening
For vSphere 4.1 http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10198

For vSphere 4.0 http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10109

Common Best Practice (vSphere 4 and vSphere 5)
virtual Distributed Switches
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsphere-distributed-switch-best-practices.pdf
Virtual machine Best Practice on vSphere
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-Tuning-Latency-Sensitive-Workloads.pdf
Active Directory -Best Practice
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/Virtualizing_Windows_Active_Directory.pdf
SQL – Best Practice on vSphere
SQL Server on VMware – Availability and Recovery Options
SQL Server on VMware – Best Practices Guide
Oracle – Best Practice on vSphere
Oracle Databases on VMware – High Availability Guidelines
Oracle Databases on VMware – Best Practices Guide
Exchange – Best Practice on vSphere
Exchange 2010 on VMware_Availability and Recovery Options
Java – Best Practice on vSphere
Enterprise Java Applications on VMware – High Availability Guidelines
Enterprise Java Applications on VMware – Best Practices Guide
SAP- Best Practice on vSphere
SAP Solutions on VMware – Best Practices Guide
SAP Solutions on VMware – Business Continuance