Switching the vCenter Server Appliance to Appliance Shell Currently, the vCSA is bundled with these supported shells:BASH ShellAppliance ShellSwitching the vCenter Server Appliance 6.x to BASH Shell
A short HOWTO creating an Ubuntu VM running on ESXi-Arm. Downloadhttps://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm Quickly select the “Install” option in the GRUB boot screen, or you will be very sorry later on
Talk about flakey behaviour! Luckily I’m not the first but probably not the last to figure out that some USB sticks just doesn’t play nice with some Raspberrys.My Aeotec Z-Stick Gen 5 wasn’t recognize
It is really neat that you can treat your Pi to some remote storage that is stable and fast and even boot from it. I followed these steps to setup my Pis to boot ESXi-Arm, my goto hypervisor, and then
First, install and verify acme.sh on your vCenter installation as outlined here Install Lets Encrypt acme.sh on vCenter 7. Let’s run through a manual update of the newly created LetsEncrypt certifica
Straight from the official webpage: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh If you are brave, you can automate Let’s Encrypt management for VCenter. The installer will perform 3 actions: Create an
I finally caved and setup a proper computer for the younger kids. Apparently the draw av Roblox and Minecraft Mods was too strong in addition to Steam titles. I did however set it up as a VM on a an E
I’ve updated with an automated process as described in Install Lets Encrypt acme.sh on vCenter 7 It seems the new vCenter 7 is rather picky. What worked on the 6.7 results in the dreaded error “Error
When folder deletion fails in the UI, you can fall back to the CLI and force deletion. SSH into your ESXi instance and use the osfs-rmdir utility. This type of error can also occur due to connectivity
I use the minimal Photon distribution and it seems the system disk is only around 8GB. That fills up quickly when installing some humongous Docker containers :/ List usagedf -h Check available spa
I’ve tried many different types of shared storage in my HomeLab, however I’ve never really found the “one”. The vSAN feature of vSphere has been high on the list for a long time and when I finally upg
If you have a consumer UPS that connects via USB, you need to use this workaround to expose the UPS to the ESXi host. I use the built in NUT server on a Synology NAS to expose the UPS to the ESXi usin
Often used during DR situations ;) List available volumesesxcfg-volume -l Persistently mount using labelUsing the capital ‘M’ switch will make the mount survive reboots. esxcfg-volume -M dsHuml
The prerequisities are having SSH enabled, copy the Offline Bundles to a datastore and enter Maintenance mode. Although the last one is optional. Download HP Custom ESXi 6.5 installsI’m using the HP
An updated version for ESXi 6.5 including the Synology side is located here. This HOWTO is possible thanks to Renes work. The original story and program is here: http://rene.margar.fr/2012/05/client-n