This error seems to stem from one of the latest patch updates for VCenter Appliance that I’ve applied. In my case, I have a more recent version of this plugin which works, but the error messages are
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
I use the Photon minimal distribution quite extensively. It does come with a tiny disk size of 8GB. This is a writeup of the detailed instructions of this original post: https://communities.vmware.com
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’ve prepared a Photon micro image as a VSphere Template. I use this to get a tiny Linux host for hosting Docker. Change the default root passwordDefault password for root is “changeme” and must be
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
My kids are still pretty young-ish so we make do with a mix of laptops and ipads. I do have a couple Windows VMs that are setup as gaming machines with dedicated GPUs via hardware passthrough. The iss
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
ESXi is doing backups on its own every hour into either /bootbank/state.tgz or /altbootbank/state.tgz (whichever partition is currently used). This file state.tgz is what is actually inside the conf
The “ESXi Embedded Host Client” is an HTML5 Angular SPA application. It is installed locally on the ESXi host and is lightweight and fast. It is still in “Fling” status on VMWare Labs but is stable,