hello In the past i always used a com port console cable like you all know "the blue cisco console cable" Now that my laptop has no Com port anymore and only one USB port i had to use the Cisco USB console cable. you need a driver for this and looking on the internet i couldn't find it right away so here is the link to the driver so other don't have to look so long Cisco USB console driver at the time of writing this the version was 3.1 good luck to everyone
When you install ESXi 5.x from vmware you don't have all the plug-ins or modules that a vendor customized ESX images has. Why you ask? well you might want to monitor your ESX host with HP insight manager, IBM System Director or other management software. Or want to update your drivers and firmware with update software of the vendor, with this customized images of the vendor yo don't need to install de additional plug-ins. here are some links to the vendors i use the most ( at the time of writing ESXi 5.5 update 1 was out) IBM VMware vSphere hypervisor (ESXi) [...]