ESXi Arm Edition version 1.10更新

2022.07.20，VMware Flings上，ESXi Arm Edition 又更新了，此次1.10版本有以下更新：

Note: Upgrade is NOW supported from earlier ESXi-Arm 1.x Fling releases

• Upgrade from earlier ESXi-Arm 1.x Fling is now supported
• Support for Arm DEN0115 (PCIe config space access via firmware interface, tested with Raspberry Pi)
• Report L3 cache info for Ampere eMAG
• Minor improvements to non-cache coherent DMA support
• Raspberry Pi NIC (genet) statistics
• GOS: use VNXNET3 and PVSCSI as default for freebsd12
• Support for RK3566 SBCs (e.g. Quartz64)
  • PCIe support (NVMe not supported at this time)
  • EQOS (onboard) NIC support
• Fix missing barriers for Intel igbn NIC driver, improving stability
• Return zero for unknown sys_reg(3, 0, 0, x, y) accesses from VMs
• Telemetry reporting - Collect statistics on what kind of systems the Fling is being run on, to best gauge interest
  • No PII is collected. Here are items collected:
    • CPU info: core count, NUMA, manufacturer, etc.
    • Firmware info: vendor, version
    • Platform info: vendor, product, UUID, PCI device list
    • ESXi-Arm info: version, patch level, product build
    • The /bin/telemetry script runs on every boot and at 00:00 every Saturday

      Build 20133114
      VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0.0-20133114.aarch64.iso 

其中最重要的就是，从这个版本开始，支持从旧版本更新安装了。（此前只能全新安装新版本。）本人把两个树莓派从旧版本直接更新安装到1.10. 

另外changelog 中提到了此版本会对系统的统计数据进行收集

• Telemetry reporting - Collect statistics on what kind of systems the Fling is being run on, to best gauge interest
  • No PII is collected. Here are items collected:
    • CPU info: core count, NUMA, manufacturer, etc.
    • Firmware info: vendor, version
    • Platform info: vendor, product, UUID, PCI device list
    • ESXi-Arm info: version, patch level, product build
    • The /bin/telemetry script runs on every boot and at 00:00 every Saturday

虽然提到了 No PII (Personal Identifiable Information) is collected. 但如果对此数据收集有担心的话，可以去crontabs里禁用此计划任务。

也可以去/bin/telemetry.py 进行修改，或者把发送数据的方法调用注释掉，不被main执行就可以了。查看此python脚本我们也间接的学会了一些系统统计数据的查看办法。