Some ESXi 7.x notes

Yes, I know this is late in the game, but I’m still catching up with some of the things after from autumn 2019 to spring 2021 spending most of my time on rectum cancer treatment and other core things.

So here are some links on ESXi 7.x so I know what to expect to upgrade existing ESXi 6.x installations and get some new ones up. This will hopefully make some software development easier too, as I plan to have a build-rig some day.

But first of all a surprise for me:

ESXi 7 on ARM

I had not expected ESXi 7 to be available on ARM in 2020 yet, but it’s there and certified to run on Raspberry Pi 4. So here are some links:

• [Wayback] ESXi Arm Edition | VMware Flings (and Twitter @esxi_arm [Archive.is])
• [Wayback] How to build an ESXi on ARM Pi cluster? – ivobeerens.nl
• [Wayback] ESXi-Arm
  • [Wayback] ESXi on Arm Fling is LIVE!
• [Wayback] Getting Started with VMware ESXi on ARM with a Raspberry Pi
• [Wayback] Announcing the ESXi-Arm Fling – VMware vSphere Blog
• [Wayback] We saw VMware ESXi 7.0 on ARM | ESX Virtualization

ESXi 7 on x64

The bulk of the links:

• [Wayback] VMware ESXi Release and Build Number History | virten.net
• [Wayback] Free ESXi 7.0 – How to Download and get License Keys | virten.net
• [Wayback] ESXi 7.0 Free: New features, limitations, upgrade | 4sysops
• [Wayback] Homelab considerations for vSphere 7
• [Wayback] Nested ESXi Virtual Appliance
• [Wayback] Quick Tip – HTTPs now supported with wget on ESXi 7.0
• [Wayback] Important – NVMe SSD not found after upgrading to ESXi 7.0
  • [Wayback] NVMe SSDs are not recognized anymore after upgrading to VMware ESXi 7 – ivobeerens.nl
    

    William Lam and the VMware support team discovered quickly that we used the wrong esxcli update command (esxcli software vib update). The correct command to upgrade an ESXI host is: esxcli software profile update.

  • [Wayback] VMware NVME PCIE Driver Missing on ESXi 7.0 after upgrade from 6.7 U3 on SuperMicro 5028D-TN4T (Updated) – jeffreykusters.nl
• [Wayback] A trip down memory lane with the vSphere C# Client and ESXi 6.7 & 7.0
  • [Archive.is] William Lam on Twitter: “Just deployed the latest F@H @VMware Appliance using the new #vSphere7 Client … “
• [Wayback] TOP differences between ESXi 6.7 and ESXi 7.0 | ESX Virtualization

–jeroen