I have a pair of nice servers that I'm going to install ESXi [and subsequentially, hopefully, HP VSA]. Each server has 12 disks and a nice RAID card [one areca, one 3ware] Unfortunately it appears at ...

Does the server have light-out mgmt? You can upgrade the BIOS via that. That takes care of the host. ESXi updates can be done through a vCenter.

For the most part, I live in a world of default configurations. There are, however a number of small tweaks that I do to ESXi hosts after they have been installed to customize my configuration. While ...