ESXi-Arm Fling Twitter Digest #2

It’s been more than a month since the last update. Sorry. This means this post is going to be a bit long, and it might also miss something really important or cool. So let us know in the comments if something should be listed!

While not related to Twitter buzz, we have also launched a VMTN Community page now for the ESXi-Arm Fling. See you there!

1. VMware Photon OS 4.0 now in OVA form for ESXi-Arm!

   just deployed @vmwarephoton 4.0 beta arm64 ova to my @esxi_arm @raspberry_pi cluster – running beautifully. Go get the beta bits at https://t.co/LqkU9OaoDl. Full ISO installation to follow, ISO still uploading to datastore ?@VMwarevSphere #VMwareTAM #ESXionARM pic.twitter.com/5N27kVdchU

   — Markus S. (@mastr79) November 6, 2020

2. Capturing Raspberry Pi temperatures using a custom driver written by VMware’s own Tom Hebel!

   Raspberry Pi running #VMware #ESXionARM – Send CPU Temperature to Graphite @tom_hebel @esxi_arm https://t.co/OBCoXvjlyd

   — Florian (@virten) November 9, 2020

3. There’s just no stopping Tom – now his driver + scripts can grab a screenshot from the Pi’s video console.

   Say cheese! Take a screenshot of your #raspberrypi running #VMware #esxionarm using a VIB and a script! https://t.co/l8D9kuQy29 pic.twitter.com/yWxrVGXAwP

   — Tom Hebel (@tom_hebel) November 10, 2020

4. Oracle Linux 8 with UEK R6 works in an ESXi-Arm VM!

   Oracle Linux 8 with UEK R6 Guest also run on @esxi_arm .
   Copy the official OL8.2 .img to VMDK and boot. https://t.co/dZPhfniEFm
   root fs(xfs) could be extended with growpart and xfs_growfs.
   official open-vm-tools RPM for OL8ARM does not provided,
   so I'm using custom build RPM. pic.twitter.com/rhOITSsjQo

   — Go Watanabe (@gowatana) November 1, 2020

5. Daniele exploring far edge compute + IoT scenarios with ESXi-Arm and Raspberry Pi 4.
   https://twitter.com/DanieleUlrich/status/1323375607191920645
6. Vincent explains why ESXi-Arm is so important for development, prototyping, and deployment.

   Building out an @opnsense cluster and a @ZeroTier 1.5.0 test cluster behind it to test to see if the Aarch64 build was successful.

   *THIS* is why @esxi_arm is so goddamn important. We now have the tools to quickly deploy entire virtualized, complex environments! pic.twitter.com/1ApaU37V8g

   — Vincent Milum Jr (@DarkainMX) November 1, 2020

7. Cyprien spills the beans on the [still wip] SVGA3 device (in case someone wants to hack together a driver!)

   With that said, SVGA3 has a different PCI device ID: 0x0406 (was 0x0405 for SVGA2). The regsiters IO BAR has been replaced by an MMIO BAR. Registers values are directly accessible from base + 4*index (uint32_t[]).

   — Cypou (@cypou) October 30, 2020

8. Florian got VMware Tools to run with openSUSE.

   #VMware Tools for openSUSE (aarch64) on #ESXionARM@esxi_arm https://t.co/mAhxMd1CQD

   — Florian (@virten) October 29, 2020

9. Florian also has VMware Tools running with Debian.

   #VMware Tools for Debian 10 (arm64) on #ESXionARM@esxi_arm https://t.co/cBovF2L7HL

   — Florian (@virten) October 28, 2020

10. …and Fedora :-).

    #VMware Tools for Fedora 32 aarch64 on #ESXionARM@esxi_arm https://t.co/aUu6QFHSOj

    — Florian (@virten) October 26, 2020

11. …and CentOS 8.

    #VMware Tools for CentOS 8 aarch64 on #ESXionARM @esxi_arm https://t.co/c3i3DJX0JP

    — Florian (@virten) October 25, 2020

12. Ivo has Home Assistant up and running in a VM.

    New blog: Install Home Assistant on ESXi-ARM https://t.co/0JMh41RvWN #esxiarm @esxi_arm

    — ibeerens (@ibeerens) October 26, 2020

13. Huge Pi 4 cluster running ESXi-Arm.

    8 node @Raspberry_Pi 4 cluster tower assembled. #ESXionARM setup next… pic.twitter.com/It61it6iFz

    — Vince Wood (@HTownVinny) October 24, 2020

     

14. ESXi on Raspberry Pi – Scripted Installation with Kickstart.

    ESXi on Raspberry Pi – Scripted Installation with Kickstart https://t.co/lLkVjJUFIr

    — Florian (@virten) October 14, 2020

15. ESXi on RPi – PowerShell Functions to create EEPROM and Firmware SD Card.

    ESXi on RPi – PowerShell Functions to create EEPROM and Firmware SD Card #ESXionARM https://t.co/9UvwvnQbVT

    — Florian (@virten) October 12, 2020

16. Power over Ethernet HAT Options for ESXi-Arm on Raspberry Pi.

    Power over Ethernet HAT Options for ESXi-Arm on Raspberry Pi https://t.co/cVukw3dFMU

    — Florian (@virten) November 8, 2020

17. William Lam documents his stateless deployment solution for ESXi-Arm.

    Here’s my #ESXionARM Stateless solution! ?

    ✅ No need for any local media including SD Card
    ✅ Automatically joins vCenter Server (optional)
    ✅ Applies post-deployment ESXi configuration (optional)
    ✅ Does not rely on vSphere Auto Deploy or Host Profiles https://t.co/6csZXgyC6K

    — William Lam (@lamw) November 3, 2020