Before I do anything with VMware ESXi I do this first

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• Thank you for explaining, it helped a lot.

• Showing error amd-v/rvi is not supported on this platform, please tell me the solutions

• Can you help me

• hi, I'm emulating esxi in vmware, if I want to add vm's to the esxi how many resourses should I give to my esxi? I'm running everything in my laptop

• I have an Intel RAID for my PCIe optane drives (RAID10) But my ESXI 8 cannot see it. I've been scouring the internet to see how I can get them to see it, looked on VMWare's Compatible RAID controllers, and it mentioned that Intel VMD is the only solution for NVMe RAID. The BIOS sees the RAID 10, but not ESXi 8. Are there tutorials for this? Direct me in the right direction?

• thanks

• Excellent VMware lesson

• This tutorial rocked right up until the point where I tried to setup the new ports for vMotion (15:00 Min) my setup doesn't use VLans and the VLan field doesn't populate and thereby fails… still working on a solution but overall thanks for the help from this vid, helped me get my home lab to another level!

• Hi, where did u obtain that update link? Only think I found is a downloadable zip. Would be nice to show not just copy paste an leave the question unanswerd. Thanks.

• Hi, Can i clone the entire VMware ESXi server to the new SSD? If so how? Thx in advance.

• Thank you so much Clear content and professional way of explaining

• Hello Brandon Lee,
  
  thank you for your great videos and detailed information.
  
  A question: I want to run a script or "esxcli" command during each ESXi boot. What's the best way to do that?

• can you do a video on how to show the FQDN in vCenter instead of the ip address, without a active directory server

• Can anyone help me resetting root password for esxi 7 ? Vcenter is not configured .

• Just completed the watch, moving on to implementing all of the steps on my test host. Thanks for your thorough and clear howto video!

• i hope you are there ! in good health, So, how to backup a " VM's" as i make in VirtualBox in Windows 8.1 ? i wanted to baukup (forexample ) windows XP or 7 or even 11 . BUT i was thinking to backup any of these VM's to use them to install windows to another Computer !! do you get my idea ?

• This was absolutely phenomenal… Thank you, thank you, thank you!

• Great content, thank you!

  I would suggest applying a high pass filter to your mic in post, perhaps around 80-100 Hz.
  I'm listening on in-ear headphones and there is a fairly loud bump occasionally.
  It probably doesn't come through if editing on a laptop.

• Hi, what can we do with VM backup+restore in ESXi (free)?

  Is it only available with 3rd party tools?

  Can we schedule the task?

• Thank you for this effort, I am a newbie , I was wondering if you can tell us how to access our servers from outside network , your teacher method is great , I would love to learn more

• Hi, great video.

• Thank you so much for the excellent information.

• I often wonder why, after 20+ years, such a fundamental and very important service such as NTP is disabled and unset by default.

• Realy Helpful video

• lost in the details , and yet , nobody explains what is going on at a fundamental level. I do understand that most of the details occur on vmware servers , and that what you have esxi installed on is almost irrelevant.

• If that syslog setting is going to work, you need open syslog ports on the firewall.

• You mentioned licensing methods. Do you have a video that shows what is includes the Vmug Advantage Licensing offerings?

• Maybe someone can help me figure out what I’m doing wrong. I just started using Vsphere, I have the VMDK size set as preallocated. However, inside of Vsphere, the storage shows the correct amount but the datastore is only 16gb. I’ve tried expanding the datastore of creating a new one with no success

• Every vSphere host in any shop / Lab / Enterprise I work I enable "ShareForceSalting = 0" and "Mem.ShareScanTime = 20" This setting pretty much dedeuplicates used memory blocks and give you the ability to run more VMs without swapping. And checks memory blocks every 20 min. These can be set in the advanced system settings.

• перед как посрать я делаю эти вещи: встаю с дивана, захожу в туалет, закрываю дверь и т.д.

• So, in other words, you just set it up?

• If there are a lot of ESXi host, maybe there is something like automation script to manage all of systems at once.

  Or vCenter Server?

• Great tutorial

• Followed your guide to do an upgrade and worked great. Thanks.

  The video is good but on my system there was a sync issue between audio and video, which I find very distracting. Not sure if it my system or the video.

• Really helpful video covers all operational build tasks

• That was a really awesome video! Thank you very much! 👍😁

• AWESOME Awesome content, some of these things are really good practices !! Good work Brandon.

• What about backing up vCenter and the ESXi host configs?

• can you please add the text command for patching hosts Thanks

• some really useful info, thank you for creating and sharing.

• I haven't been in a VM environment since V5, but back then during the install routine we would make changes to the partitions sizes- do people still do this?

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