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Revision as of 17:22, 13 May 2022
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- Identify correct driver for ESXi host hardware component
- Raw device mapping (RDM)
- Enabling Realtek NIC on VMWare ESXi6.5
- Recognize new virtual disks added to Linux VMs without reboot
- Install latest ESXi on older unsupported hardware
- Configure VMFS filesystem on USB disk and mount it as datastore on ESXi host
- Install ESXi patch via depot zip file
- ESXi host configuration backup and restore
- Disable ESXi coredump and delete coredump file
- ESXi persistent scratch location esp. for VSAN nodes
- Disable password complexity in ESXi 6.5
- ESXi host time settings
- Create standard port-group for trunking all VLANs to VM
- Best practices for using snapshots in vsphere environment
- Configure VM with paravirtual adapter for better queue depth
- Renaming VM or template storage folder name
- Downgrade virtual machine hardware version
- Copy sparse or thin VM disks from one ESXi host or one datastore to another
- Configure ESXi host to use multiple network ports for iSCSI multipathing
- Find mapping between VMWare virtual disk and Harddisk inside Windows VM
ESXi host troubleshooting notes
- Unregister invalid VMs using ESXi command-line
- Enable SSH or SCP from one ESXi host to another
- ESXi host fails to enter maintenance mode without any error
- ESXi losses all vmkernel or ip configuration
- Install nested ESXi on top of ESXi in a VM
- Install nested ESXi on top of KVM in a VM
- Create template of nested ESXi for cloning and repeat use
- Create nested ESXi for vSAN experiments with SSD disk
