Kenneth Ristau gave an impromptu presentation on setting up a nested VMware lab using ESXi5 and/or VMware Workstation 8. We also briefly discussed tuning Linux VMs for running under vSphere. The following are some links Ken provided:

Nested ESXi 5: http://tsmith.co/2011/creating-a-nested-esxi-5-environment/

AutoLab: http://www.labguides.com/autolab/

Tuning Linux:

• http://lonesysadmin.net/linux-virtual-machine-tuning-guide/
• http://lonesysadmin.net/2011/12/01/align-your-partitions/
• http://lonesysadmin.net/2011/12/02/disable-guis-and-x-windows-on-linux-vms/
• http://lonesysadmin.net/2011/12/04/leave-some-ram-for-filesystem-cache/
• NTP and time/date: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427