Here is a collection of all my blog posts relating to vSphere 5 that I have worked on over the last 6 months.
General Topics
1. How to Enable Support for Nested 64bit & Hyper-V VMs in vSphere 5
2. Automating ESXi 5.x Kickstart Tips & Tricks
3. Major Enhancements in esxcli for vSphere 5
4. What's New in VMware Vsish for ESXi 5
5. SSH Keys & Lockdown Mode Caveat in ESXi 5
6. How to Create Custom Firewall Rules in ESXi 5.0
7. How to Format and Create VMFS Volume using the CLI in ESXi 5
8. HBR (Host Based Replication) CLI for SRM 5
9. New vSphere 5 CLI Utilities/Tricks Marketing Did Not Tell You About Part 1
10. New vSphere 5 CLI Utilities/Tricks Marketing Did Not Tell You About Part 2
11. New vSphere 5 CLI Utilities/Tricks Marketing Did Not Tell You About Part 3
12. New vSphere 5 HA, DRS and SDRS Advanced/Hidden Options
13. How to Trick ESXi 5 in seeing an SSD Datastore
14. Free Linux & Windows Syslog Alternatives to depercated vi-logger in vMA 5
15. Host Profiles Free in ESXi 5?
16. vi-fastpass esxcli and resxtop bug resolved in vMA 5
17. Tips and Tricks for vMA 5
18. How to Enable Nested vFT (virtual Fault Tolerance) in vSphere 5
20. When Can I Run Apple OSX on vSphere 5?
21. How Fast is the New vSphere 5 HA/DRS on 64 Node Cluster? FAST!
22. New Hidden CBRC (Content-Based Read Cache) Feature in vSphere 5 & for VMware View 5?
API + SCRIPTS
1. There's a new mob in town, FDM MOB for ESXi 5
2. New SRM 5 APIs
3. Automating the New Integrated VIX/Guest Operations API in vSphere 5
4. Automating Storage DRS & Datastore Cluster Management in vSphere 5
5. How to Automate Host Cache Configuration in ESXi 5
6. 2 Hidden Virtual Machine Gems in the vSphere 5 API
7. New vSphere Health Check 5.0 & ghettoVCB Script
8. New Performance Metrics In vSphere 5
9. How to Persist Configuration Changes in ESXi 4.x/5.x Part 1
10. How to Persist Configuration Changes in ESXi 4.x/5.x Part 2
11. How to Automate the Upgrade of Classic ESX 4.x to ESXi 5
12. New Application Awareness API in vSphere 5
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