This page is a collection of useful resources, white papers, Visio stencils, calculators, technical information and anything else we find on our travels as TAMs.
Cloud
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/aws-professional/services The differences between AWS and Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/resources/ Azure resources, free training, webinars, roadmaps
https://aws.amazon.com/resource-center/ AWS resources, scripting, tutorials, SDKs, and general info
https://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws/resources#compliance VMConAWS resources, videos, compliance, documents and blogs
VMware
https://code.vmware.com/home PowerCLI and scripting
https://www.vmware.com/uk/techpapers.html Technical Papers
https://labs.vmware.com/flings VMWare Flings from the office of the CTO
https://labs.hol.vmware.com/HOL/catalogs/ VMware Hands on Labs
http://docs.hol.vmware.com VMware Hands on Labs Documents
https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/support/product-lifecycle-matrix.pdf Product Lifecycle Matrix
Tools
Veem Backup Free Edition for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V
https://www.vmware.com/uk/products/converter.html
Calculators and Simulators
http://myvirtualcloud.net/vdi-calculators-2/ VDI Calculator
http://techhead.co/emc-storage-simulators-for-your-lab-free/ EMC VNX Simulator
http://tco.vmware.com/tcocalculator/ VMWare TCO calculator
http://wintelguy.com/vmcalc.pl Virtualisation calcultor
http://vmusketeers.com/vsphere-cluster-calculator/ vSphere cluster calculator
http://hasimulator.vmware.com/html/index.html#/summary VMware HA simulator
Notable Blogs
http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/ aka The Slogg
Visio
draw.io– Free web based visio tool
Technodrone VMware stencil pack
MacOS and Linux
https://brew.sh The missing MacOS package manager
https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu Impressive disk usage tool run from terminal
https://www.centos.org CentOS