Rick Blythe подбил список наиболее часто просматриваемых статей по ESXi 5.x:
- ESXi 5.x host experiences a purple diagnostic screen mentioning E1000PollRxRing and E1000DevRx (2059053)
- Unable to delete the virtual machine snapshot due to locked files (2017072)
- Installing async drivers on ESXi 5.0, 5.1, and 5.5 (2005205)
- Collecting diagnostic information for VMware ESX/ESXi using the vSphere Client (653)
- Determining Network/Storage firmware and driver version in ESXi/ESX 4.x and ESXi 5.x (1027206)
- Broadcom 5719/5720 NICs using tg3 driver become unresponsive and stop traffic in vSphere (2035701)
- Investigating virtual machine file locks on ESXi/ESX (10051)
- Installing or upgrading to ESXi 5.5 best practices (2052329)
- Unmounting a LUN or detaching a datastore/storage device from multiple ESXi 5.x hosts (2004605)
- Restarting the Management agents on an ESXi or ESX host (1003490)
- Understanding virtual machine snapshots in VMware ESXi and ESX (1015180)
- Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 4.x and 5.x (1033696)
- Using esxtop to identify storage performance issues for ESX /ESXi (multiple versions) (1008205)
- Enhanced vMotion Compatibility (EVC) processor support (1003212)
- Methods for upgrading to ESXi 5.5 (2058352)
- Permanent Device Loss (PDL) and All-Paths-Down (APD) in vSphere 5.x (2004684)
- Commands to monitor snapshot deletion in ESX 2.5/3.x/4.x and ESXi 3.x/4.x/5.x (1007566)
- Updating an ESXi/ESX host using VMware vCenter Update Manager 4.x and 5.x (1019545)
- VMFS Heartbeat and Lock corruption on Dell EqualLogic Arrays (2049103)
- Configuring syslog on ESXi 5.x (2003322)
У меня при переходе на 5.5 возникла проблема с невозможностью запуска upgrade script.
Решение
http://virtualrealization.blogspot.ru/2013/12/vum-errror-during-remediation-of-esxi.html