General
- VMware ESXi (FREE Hypervisor, ESX is the older platform)
- Using thin provisioned disks with virtual machines
- Online Flash Overview of VMware ESXi
- Youtube: VMware Infrastructure 3 demo
- VMware On-demand Webcasts
- Fixing: vSphere 4.0 client on Windows 7
- ESXi support install by remote management software include Dell’s DRAC4/5 (Dell Remote Access Controller), HP’s iLO/iLO2 (Integrated Lights-Out), IBM’s RSA (Remote Supervisor Adapter)
- Download different versions of ESX/ESXi tools for different OS
- Operations / Tools
- Linked clones with ESXi without the help of a vCenter
- vGhetto Script Repository
The linked-clone script not work for ESXi 5.0 - MKSBackup overview
- Backup VMware ESX(i) using ghettoVCB
- ESXi Customization
- Intel 82579 Gigabit LAN controller driver for ESXi 5.0
- vm-help.com: ESXi-Customizer: A Windows script to customize ESXi 4.1 and 5.0
- ESXi Customizer official website (For ESXi 5.0)
- vm-help.com: tips for customize VMware ESX
oem.tgz can only apply to ESXi to enable unsupported hardware to run ESX does not support oem.tgz and cannot apply ESXi's custom drivers
- mkesxiaio – A bash script to create a custom ESXi installation image
Networking
Resources Management
- Understanding VMware Reservations Limits and Shares
- Disable swap file in ESXi VM
- Common Mistake: Using CPU reservations to solve CPU Ready
- Difference Between vSphere 5.1 and vSphere 5.5
- How too many vCPUs can negatively affect performance
Administration
- VMware Access Control 101: Roles and Permissions
- KB2004166: ESXi 5.0 Server Management Tool Support for LSI (MegaRAID)
- *May* need to pre-install VIB file from LSI
- Install with: esxcli software vib install -v /tmp/vmware-esx-provider-lsiprovider.vib –no-sig-check
- Manage an HP Smart Array directly from VMware ESXi
- ESXi 5.1: can’t create multiextent node Error (Affect 5.1 or 5.5)
- add /sbin/vmkload_mod multiextent to /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh
- Maybe affecting linked clone vm or vm from Workstation?
- Related KB: Powering on a virtual machine on an upgraded host fails with the error: File [VMFS volume] VM-name/VM-name.vmdk was not found (2036572)
- troubleshooting vmdk error: use vmkfstools -v 1 -e xxx.vmdk (-v 1 turn on verbose)