I've been asked by my boss to manage our new VMware environment. We're moving off Amazon's EC2 for in-house virtualization and I've stood up ESXi hosts and guests in the past but have never had full VMware vCenter features available to me. Since I will be the guy who needs to make 'x' work in VMware or make sure 'y' fails over to another host. I am just asking for any references for study material for understanding and maintaining a full VMware vCenter / vSphere 5.5.0 functionality / configuration / maintenance / and most of all features and common pit falls.
We're currently running VMware ESXi hosts on all new IBM hardware and shared storage (NFS).
Thanks for any recommendations for VMware books / material / references.