ESXi

Enable SSH

1. At the console, press F2 and login
2. Select Troubleshooting Options
3. Select Enable SSH
4. Press ESC to logout

Hanging on ipmi_si_drv

1. Press Shift + O and append noipmiEnabled to the boot args
2. Once booted, connect with vSphere and add uncheck VMkernel.Boot.impiEnabled

Use SATA drive as an RDM

1. Login as root
2. Run fdisk -l and locate the disk you wish to use
3. Run ls /dev/disks/ -l and locate the symlink to that disk
4. Goto the correct directory to place the new vmdk
5. Run vmkfstools -r /vmfs/devices/disks/<symlink> RDM.vmdk -a lsilogic
   1. Disk type
      • -r - create Virtual device
      • -z - create Physical (passthrough) device - careful with these
   2. Controller -a ...
      • buslogic - probrably not
      • lsilogic
      • ide