Collection of VMware for Dummies Books

For Dummies books are short, beginner-friendly guides. VMware published a long list of free special editions on vSphere, Kubernetes, networking, security and more, and I collected them all here.

Click a cover or a title to open the book. To get them all at once, clone my GitHub repo vmware-for-dummies.

Browse the covers

Books by topic

Cloud and data center

• Cloud Management For Dummies, VMware Special Edition
• Managing a VMware Cloud For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Modern and Secure Hybrid Cloud Platform For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Data Center Modernization For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Next-Gen Virtualization For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Hyper‐Converged Infrastructure For Dummies®, VMware 2nd Special Edition
• Software‐Defined Storage For Dummies VMware Special Edition
• Telco Cloud For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• VMware Backup For Dummies®, Veeam Special Edition

Automation and DevOps

• vRealize Automation For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• DevOps for Infrastructure for Dummies, VMware Special Edition
• Network Automation For Dummies®, VMware® Special Edition

Kubernetes and modern apps

• Kubernetes® on vSphere® For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Kubernetes on vSphere For Dummies®, VMware 2nd Special Edition
• DevSecOps For Dummies®, VMware Tanzu Special Edition
• Service Mesh For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Service Mesh For Dummies®, VMware 2nd Special Edition
• Container Network Security For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition

Networking

• Network Virtualization For Dummies®, 2nd VMware Special Edition
• Micro‐segmentation For Dummies®, 2nd VMware Special Edition
• Internal Firewalls For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Multi-Cloud Load Balancing For Dummies®, Avi Networks Special Edition
• Software-Defined WAN For Dummies®, 2nd VMware Special Edition
• SASE & ZTNA For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition

Security

• SecOps For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Securing Your Organization from Threats For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Application Control For Dummies Carbon Black Special Edition
• Threat Hunting For Dummies® Carbon Black Special Edition

End-user computing

• Anywhere Workspace For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition
• Desktop as a Service (DaaS) For Dummies®, VMware Special Edition

vSphere and virtualization classics

• VMware vSphere For Dummies (EPUB)
• VMware® Infrastructure 3 For Dummies
• Virtualization 2.0 For Dummies

Wrapping up

Some of these books are a few years old, so names like vRealize, Tanzu and Carbon Black reflect when they were written. If I missed one, let me know in the comments.