Retrieving detailed vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) Image information from...
As more and more users are adopting vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) to simplify the lifecycle and configuration management of their ESXi hosts, you may want to get more information about a given vLCM...
View ArticleAutomating certificate-manager CLI operations in vCenter Server (VCSA)
I recently had a customer inquiry where they were interested in automating the certificate replacement for vCenter Solution Users when using the /usr/lib/vmware-vmca/bin/certificate-manager CLI, which...
View ArticleUpdated Inventory & Calculator Scripts for counting Cores/TiBs for VMware...
Here are two new tools to help our users understand and calculate the required subscription capacity for the new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) offerings, which are...
View ArticleAutomated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain deployment using...
Using my Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Lab Deployment script, you can quickly get to a functional VCF Management Domain which includes deploying the required Nested ESXi VMs and the Cloud...
View ArticleAutomate the deployment & initial configuration of Aria Suite Lifecycle...
I love writing automation, especially for deploying a consistent and repeatable environment for testing or learning purposes. I recently deployed the latest Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.14 (formally...
View ArticleESXi on Minisforum MS-01
In recent years, there have been a number of new players that have entered the mini PC market that have really been pushing the boundaries on small form factor systems. Minisforum is one such company,...
View ArticleQuick Tip - Block or remove download URL for VMware Enhanced Authentication...
There was a new VMware Security Advisory (VMSA-2024-0003) that was published this week that affects the deprecated VMware Enhanced Authentication Plug-in (EAP) and as part of the remediation, per...
View ArticleVMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) v0.8.0
I am very excited to share that we have just released our long awaited v0.8.0 of the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)! 🥳 The v0.8.0 release has been in the works for quite some time and because of...
View ArticleAutomated Aria Suite (Lifecycle, Identity, Operations, Logs & Automation) Lab...
I recently got reacquainted with the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) solution, which makes it super easy for anyone to manage the deployment, configuration and lifecycle for the complete Aria...
View ArticleQuick Tip - ESXi 8.0 Update 2b resolves not detecting Apple NVMe
There was an issue that was reported last November where ESXi 8.0 Update 2 was not detecting the onboard Apple NVMe device during an upgrade and I am happy to share the mentioned fix will be available...
View ArticleDetermining new VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) & VMware Cloud Foundation...
vSphere 8.0 Update 2b was just released last week and with this release, customers can now take advantage of the new included 100 GiB trial vSAN storage capacity for each deployed VMware vSphere...
View ArticleQuick Tip - Using ESXCLI to upgrade ESXi 8.x throws MemoryError or Got no...
Several users in the community have reported running into a memory error issue when attempting to upgrade their standalone ESXi hosts using this ESXCLI trick, which has been possible since ESXi 5.1...
View ArticleQuick Tip - Audit vSphere VMs configured with USB Controllers
Automation scales Operations, that is a phrase that I have used several times today in various conversations with colleagues and customers. I truly believe organizations can scale more efficiently and...
View ArticlePre-release Microsoft OS/2 2.0 on ESXi
While catching up on my RSS news feed over the weekend, I came across an interesting article titled: Ancient pre-release version of OS/2 2.0 discovered, released in VM-friendly packages and of course...
View ArticleAutomated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) host commission using ESXi Kickstart
ESXi Scripted Installation (Kickstart) has been my go-to method for achieving zero-touch provisioning of ESXi hosts at scale, which I had started using back in the ESX 2.5 days when I was a customer!...
View ArticleCustom ESXi "Dummy" Reboot VIB for vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)
A few weeks back, I had a request from one of our Technical Adoption Managers (TAM) that their customer wanted to create a custom ESXi VIB that could be used with vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) and...
View ArticleDynamic ESXi firewall rulset for non-standard syslog ports in vSphere 8.0...
For most users who configure syslog for their ESXi hosts (hopefully everyone is doing that for audit, compliance and troubleshooting purposes), they typically stick with the default syslog ports 514...
View ArticleUnable to power on vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) VM in Nested ESXi with no...
After deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain using the VCF Holodeck Toolkit, which leverages Nested ESXi, I noticed the vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) VMs kept failing to power...
View ArticleEnabling License Later (evaluation) mode for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1 was just released this week and it brings a number of new capabilities including the recently announced VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA solution. One...
View ArticleQuick Tip - clusterImageEnabled property required for JSON deployment in...
While updating and testing my Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Lab Deployment Script to support the latest VCF 5.1.1 release, I came across a strange error message in the Cloud Builder UI about...
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