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Quick Tip: Use USB storage devices as datastore on VMware ESXi
When attaching any kind of USB devices, the service usbarbitrator claims those devices to allow passing through USB devices into virtual machines. This is (one of) the reason you won’t see USB sticks...
View ArticleSolved Mystery: DRS, Powering On VM fails with “insufficient resources”
Once there was a DRS-enabled cluster with a mystery: When trying to start a virtual machine, the very generic error Insufficient resources appeared. However further checking all hosts in the cluster...
View ArticleQuick Tip: Get vCenter Instance UUID via SSH
That post is more a quick note, in case someone ever needs this. There might be few very specific and rare situations where you might need the unique vCenter-Instance-UUID. In this case, you can get...
View Articlepiler update guide
In addition to my piler installation guide this now focuses on updating an existing piler setup. Luckily this takes noticeable less time than the installation. If you don’t have piler up and running...
View ArticlevCenter 7.0 U2: vSphere Native Key Provider! (integrated KMS)
Recently vCenter 7.0 Update 2 was released to the public, with new features and improvements. For me one highlight was the introduction of the "vSphere Native Key Provider" (NKP): a native KMS (Key...
View ArticlevCenter 7.0 U2: “Swap File Location” cannot be changed to different datastore
As part of a customer request we were in need to change the swap location to a different datastore, as the current datastore was about to be removed in the near future. This post is meant... Der...
View ArticleNSX ALB/AVI: Deleting httppolicyset via CLI
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer – also known as AVI Vantage – is a very comprehensive load balancer I was implementing in my lab the last days. The context By default AVI Controller creates one...
View ArticleADFS 2019: Allow logon with sAMAccountName
Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) allows plenty of customizations when it comes to the website theme. One specific customization allows the logon using just the sAMAccountName (e.g....
View Article[QuickTip] Tanzu TKC/Guest Cluster: Error “Permission denied” when creating...
This time, I’m not getting into much detail about specific details around this topic. Consider this as a quick write-up/FYI. If you’ve ever encountered this issue or worked with securityContext‘s in...
View ArticleQuickTip: Enabling Fault Tolerance fails with “This device does not support...
This is just a quick note about something I’ve came across a few weeks ago. Here I was facing the following error when enabling enabling Fault Tolerance on one or more virtual machine: Device 'Ethernet...
View ArticleGet admin password of the Embedded Harbor Registry on the Supervisor Cluster
fter enabling Workload Management in vCenter as part of vSphere with Tanzu, you can easily enable the Embedded Harbor Registry on the Supervisor Cluster. Bear in mind that this however requires NSX-T...
View ArticleQuickTip: Manually trigger certificate renewal on Avi Controller/NSX ALB
Avi Controller (or NSX Advanced Load Balancer, as known now) is able to automatically run scripts to renew your certificates your Virtual Services use – this is done by such called Certificate...
View ArticleAutomate certificate renewal via Let’s Encrypt on Avi/NSX ALB
This time I want to introduce the ability to request the famous Let’s Encrypt certificates on your NSX Advanced Load Balancer (also known as Avi Vantage) using comprehensive on-board functionality it...
View ArticleQuickTip: Utilize TPS (Transparent Page Sharing) on ESXi to noticeable save...
What is it? TPS (Transparent Page Sharing) is a proprietary functionality in VMware ESX(i) which essentially does deduplication of memory pages used for virtual machines. To put it in other words:...
View ArticlevCloud: “Failed to Start” after changing “Public Addresses” for API
This is one post of category "QuickTip" and "Lesson learned"… So I was getting hands on VMware vCloud in my HomeLab and admins who have gone through the administrative-side might know the Public...
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