VMware reference

vreference.com
for vsphere card and firewall diagram

vsphere configuration maximum

vsphere evaluation: when license expired, VMs cannot be powered up when rebooted.
Host will be disconnected from vCenter and cannot be rejoined.

Virtual Appliance

Openfiler - Can use this for simulate iSCSI or NFS storage using virtual appliance.

When using vConverter, download the PDF guide as reference. Alot of considerations to be made for different type of OS. vSphere 4 now supports Linux convertion.


EVC can widen the CPU compatibility range. slightly. But still don't try CPU family range too far apart.
You Can check the whether the CPU is covered by the EVC in documentation.


You can only create resource pool in cluster, when you turned on DRS.


HA Heartbeat
ESX Classic uses Service Console
ESXi uses VMKernel

Hot clone - reconfig and customization (not recommended, greatly reduce success rate)

Cold clone - using vCenter converter boot Cd. because somtimes the agent cannot be installed successfully on source OS, and you don't want to troubleshoot on it. Just use the CD to boot and convert.


Standalone converter is a better option. Better success rate and more resillient.
1. It's mobile.
2. P2V Higher success rates.


RVTools - Good for checking VMs connecting to any ROM. eg. connecting to ISO. This is to verify when doing vMotion.


When vMotion, CPU family are different, if you get this error message "Host CPU incompatible, refer to "ECX", you can refer to VMWare KB:1993
Can help to bypass the CPUID checks.

Refer to IBM Vmotion configuration guide and HP vMotion Configuration guide.
to check HW range compatible to run vMotion


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