VMware

VMware vSphere, ESXi and other related goodies

Create Template for Terraform and other provisioning needs.

# Base install of Ubuntu Bionic and then
sudo apt-get install -y open-vm-tools ssh

vmkfstools -i myfile.vmdk -d thin dest/myfile.vmdk

this copies both .vmdk and -flat.vmdk

Performance

• https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2019/12/cpu-hot-add-performance-vsphere67.html

Guest Customizations

• https://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/guestOS/guest-os-customization-matrix.pdf
• https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Tools/11.0.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vmwaretools.doc/GUID-C48E1F14-240D-4DD1-8D4C-25B6EBE4BB0F.html
• https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/54986
• https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/56409

References

• https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1022312#ephemeral

Support Ubuntu 20.04 on G.5

• VM Options->Advanced->Configuration Parameters->Edit Configuration..
  • disk.EnableUUID = TRUE

Scan new drives without reboot

• echo "- - -" | sudo tee /sys/class/scsi_host/host*/scan