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vsphere best practices (above and beyond security)

Aside from Security best practices for vSphere and your virtual server infrastructure, are there any other best practice documents to adhere to when designing/configuring/management your vSphere infrastructure, if so what specifics do they cover, and are there any useful tools to check for alignment to these best practices also? I could do with a checklist to see how well our vSphere infrastructure aligns to best practice guidance, there is a lot on security but not so much in other risk areas outside of security.
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Aside from security issues if you've reviewed other companies vsphere setups, do you come across any other common misconfigurations/risks?
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Yes, many, Single Point of failures  mostly, non certified equipment, which is not on the HCL.

Organisations with NO VMware Support, running FREE ESXi, no backups, no resilient networking, no resilient storage.

Untrained staff, staff with zero VMware skills.
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When you say no backups, are you referring to hosts here, or guests (virtual machines), or other things? I was under the impression many dont backup hosts, just guests.
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Are there any tools that can match your hardware against the HCL to identify mismatches, or is that a manual task?
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No VM backup no docs for ESXi host config

Search the HCL manually ensure hardware is on HCL before purchase!
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VMware, a software company founded in 1998, was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies. VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture. Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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