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New Whitepaper: VMware ESXi 4.1 Operations Guide

Duncan Epping · May 21, 2011 ·

As part of my new role within VMware Technical Marketing I am responsible for creating collateral. Most of you have seen the series of articles about the operational differences between ESX and ESXi. After finalizing the series I transformed them into a whitepaper. I guess one thing that stood out for me while going through that process is that writing a whitepaper is substantially different than writing a blog article and even a book. I am not sure how to explain it, but a whitepaper feels less personal and more official and requires a different writing style. On top of that there are of course multiple reviews, style edits and much more. But anyway, that is not the point of this article… I just wanted to let you know that it is out there, and I hope you will enjoy reading it.

VMware ESXi Operations Guide

Learn how to perform common datacenter tasks in your ESXi environment by seeing the operational differences from the legacy ESX architecture.

Download Operations Guide

Another whitepaper I wanted to point out is the ESXi Migrations Guide. It has been written by my colleague Kyle Gleed and is an excellent start for those looking to migrate from ESX to ESXi in the near future. Not only is the whitepaper very useful, but I am also confident you will appreciate the checklists and the configuration sheet which will help with a smooth transition.

VMware ESXi Migration Guide

Learn how to plan and perform your migration to the ESXi architecture from the legacy ESX framework, with helpful checklists for organizing the steps involved.

Download Migration Guide

Download Migration Checklists

Download Host Configuration Worksheet

We are also working on automating some parts of the upgrade, and I hope to be able to publish an update on that soon.

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  1. Andy says

    21 May, 2011 at 13:33

    Superb work Duncan!

  2. Doug says

    21 May, 2011 at 22:09

    Technical Marketing. That explains how VMware has been cranking out so many useful documents like this — and yours are no exception. No shortage of useful information here, especially if you’ve got questions about scripted deployment, configuring syslog, or migration. Short and to the point, with plenty of pictures. 🙂 Good stuff.

  3. Yogesh Sharma says

    22 May, 2011 at 14:29

    Hi Duncan,

    Woudld it be possible to have the “Host Configuration Worksheet” made available in its original editable format (Excel; Word; etc.)?

    Thanks,

    Y

    • Duncan says

      22 May, 2011 at 20:43

      I will ask them!

  4. Brian says

    23 May, 2011 at 15:22

    Thanks Duncan!

    Question / Comment: Scripted installation for removable media isn’t supported. Why does it say “…This can be mitigated through the use of host profiles or by automating the configuration through PowerCLI.”?

    What does that have to do with removable media?

    • Duncan says

      23 May, 2011 at 17:55

      The use of the ks.cfg scripted installation method for SD/USB is not supported.

  5. Brandon says

    23 May, 2011 at 21:50

    The only thing I thought should have a blurb in there… is that the vCLI installation on Windows doesn’t have / support resxtop. So you either run esxtop via ssh / tech support mode or resxtop via the vMA. I ran into that, and it is kind of annoying, frankly.

  6. rahul meher says

    24 May, 2011 at 08:27

    very useful

  7. Tom Smit says

    24 May, 2011 at 19:26

    He Duncan,

    Great work.
    Thanks
    Tom Smit

  8. Andreas Peetz says

    26 May, 2011 at 12:11

    Good stuff. I appreciate that a lot since I took the step and standardized on ESXi a while ago …

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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