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ESXi stands for Elastic Sky X Integrated. It is a type-1 hypervisor developed by VMware for deploying and managing virtualization at the hardware level.

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VMware vSphere 8 – What’s new?

Graham
VMware vSphere 8 has a significant number of improvements. Naturally, this is the case with every major release of vSphere. Without wasting any more time, let's get straight to them. vSphere Scaleability There are a few improvements to vSphere Scaleability vGPUs per VM changes from 4 to 8Lifecycle Manager can...
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5 things to do after installing VMware ESXi

Graham
VMware's ESXi Hypervisor (or vSphere Hypervisor) is commonly deployed in production and home-labs. Once installed, it's easy to start building Virtual Machines and installing your applications. With this said, there are a few things you should do as soon as ESXi is deployed. Redirect log files If your ESXi installation...
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Where are my memory modules located inside an ESXi host?

Graham
I found this very simple one liner for showing which DIMM slots are populated and which ones are free inside an ESXi host. I have not yet found a way to do this via ESXCLI but this will do for now: smbiosDump | grep 'Size|Speed|Location' Running the above will produce...
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HP, DELL and CISCO custom ESXi images

Graham
I see many questions on the VMTN regarding the use of custom ESXi ISO images released by the major server vendors. In short, always use the ESXi image supplied by the vendor. They contain supported drivers and management VIBs (Such as ILO management for HP) which VMware do not provide...