After spending twenty minutes writing an intro for this, I decided to give up. Suffice it to say that there are as many ways to write an intro as there are “Official” VMware Administrator Resources. In fact, Eric Siebert at SearchVMware.com summed up quite a few here.
I also came across a communities page that indexes and describes VMware’s Technical Resource Documents.
Now, like that little gnome guy on TV, you’ll never have to roam alone.