• HOW TO: Upload an ISO CD-ROM/DVD-ROM image to a VMware datastore for use with VMware vSphere Hypervisor
• Upload ISO Image Installation Media for a Guest Operating System
• Convert VMWare ESXi Thick Provisioned Disk to Thin

• Clone a VMware’s VM without vCenter in ESXi 5.x by commands

ls /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/

mkdir /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/MegaLVA02/

vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/MegaLVA/MegaLVA.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/MegaLVA02/MegaLVA02.vmdk

vmkfstools -i /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/MegaLVA/MegaLVA.vmdk -d thin /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/MegaLVA02/MegaLVA02.vmdk

• Identify Disk Usage of a Thin Provisioned Virtual Disk

ls -lh /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/MegaLVA02/MegaLVA02.vmdk

du -h /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/MegaLVA02/MegaLVA02.vmdk

• WMware ESXI – suspend all guests
• Suspending a virtual machine on ESX/ESXi to collect diagnostic information
• Powering off a virtual machine on an ESXi host

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms

vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate 3

vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 3

vim-cmd vmsvc/power.suspend 3

• ESXi S.M.A.R.T. health monitoring for hard drives

• Запуск вложенных виртуальных машин (nested VMs) на виртуальных ESXi 5.0 и Hyper-V
• Installing ESXi 5.x in VMware Workstation

[root@esxi:~] cat /etc/vmware/config

...
vhv.allow = "TRUE"
vhv.enable = "TRUE"

• В свойствах порт-группы Policies→ Security разрешить MAC changes, Forged Transmits и Promiscous

• Capturing a network trace in ESXi using Tech Support Mode or ESXi Shell