Superguide: VMware vSphere
Here's a collection of articles to help you build your own VMware vSphere lab. The focus is on simplicity, with ways of getting going with a very usable rig, quickly and effectively, using affordable commodity parts (see also Superguide: vZilla). This Superguide will be updated with the latest relevant articles, so be sure to come back and visit. As always, your comments left below the article are greatly appreciated.
VMware vSphere 6 / ESXi 6 related articles to date
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How to easily update your VMware vCenter Server Appliance to VCSA 6.0 Update 1b
Jan 12 2016
How to easily update your VMware server to ESXi 6.0 Update 1b
Jan 07 2016
Announcing THE video "How to build your awesome virtualization home lab with VMware vSphere 6.0 (ESXi & VCSA)"
May 13 2015
Build your own VMware vSphere 6.0 Datacenter with ESXi and VCSA
Mar 15 2015
VMware vSphere 6.0 is now generally available, here’s how to download it fast
Mar 12 2015
Mastering VMware vSphere 6
Apr 04 2015
VMware vSphere 6.0 Documentation Center and Release Notes are now online, read all about it!
Mar 12 2015
Little secret those new to virtualization often miss – ESXi 6.0 continues to be mostly headless, just as it was for all prior VMware hypervisor releases
Mar 07 2015
Download all the VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 1 pieces to get your home lab started
Mar 12 2014
Build your own VMware vSphere 5.5 Datacenter with ESXi and VCSA
Sep 30 2013
with a draft Google Doc of each and every step here:
bit.ly/buildesxi55labwithvcenter
Best parts of VMware’s ESXi 5.5 free hypervisor rely on vCenter, which isn’t free. Uh oh?
Sep 25 2013
Firsthand experience with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5
Oct 25 2013
Using ESXi 5.1 to create “Golden Master” Windows 8 templates for deploying VMs, with ease-of-use tweaks for your lab
Sep 22nd 2012
VMware ESXi 5.1 can run Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 VMs, nice!
Sep 24th 2012
How to make ESXi 5.1 see the health of an LSI 9265-8i RAID controller and array (seems to work with all 92xx controllers)
Sep 15 2012
ESXi 5.1 host with LSI 92xx RAID adapter can run a VM with fully functional MegaRAID Storage Manager UI, here’s how
Oct 01 2012
