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I recently purchased an aging Lenovo Thinkstation M92p Tiny from an auction site for a bargain price. It has an i5-3470T processor, 8gb Ram and a 120gb SSD. My intent was to install VMware to host a couple of very lightweight but critical VMs required…

An article called VMware Tools for Debian 10 arm64 on ESXi-Arm on Virten.net explains that a compiled version of Open VM Tools is not available in repositories for ARM builds of many common guest operating systems. Their workaround is to compile a version from the…

Here is a technique to permanently enable SSH access on ESXi hosts. VMWare warns against leaving SSH access enabled on production servers due to security concerns. However, in my homelab this is an acceptable risk. Using the VMWare Web Interface, do Host > Services >…

The free license option for VMWare ESXi lacks the backup APIs enabled by a vSphere license. Here is a simple script that I use instead to backup my guest VMs on my VMWare ESXi running on a Raspberry Pi 4. The script assumes: Use SSH,…

A recent experience demonstrated how Denial of Service countermeasures in network switches can prevent VMWare ESXi NFS datastores working. I recently upgraded the network switches in my home lab. By default, my new switches have a denial of service prevention feature that detect the following…

WMWare's vision to push their HyperVisor to the network edge has enabled ESXi to run on small ARM devices such as the Raspberry Pi 4. Having lived with the ESXi 7.0 on Arm Fling on a Raspberry Pi 4 for just over a year now,…