Install the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Without Ephemeral Port Groups
Trying to install VMware vCenter in appliance/VCSA form straight to a new ESXi host? Having a problem where it isn’t listing any networks, and it’s telling you that “Non-ephemeral distributed virtual...
View ArticleRetrieve an SSL Certificate from a Server With OpenSSL
I was setting up VMware vRealize Automation’s Active Directory connections the other day and I needed the public SSL certificate for the AD DCs to authenticate correctly. You can use OpenSSL to get...
View ArticleJoining VMware
“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.” – Pip, Great Expectations...
View ArticleFixing Veeam Backup & Replication Proxy Install Errors
Every once in a while I struggle a little to add a new Veeam Backup & Replication hot-add proxy. If you’re like me and seeing proxy install errors maybe some of these will fix you up. This is what...
View ArticlevSphere 6.7 Will Not Run In My Lab: A Parable
“Hey Bob, I tried installing vSphere 6.7 on my lab servers and it doesn’t work right. You tried using it yet? Been beating my head against a wall here.” “Yeah, I really like it. A lot. Like, resisting...
View ArticleIntel X710 NICs Are Crap
(I’m grumpy this week and I’m giving myself permission to return to my blogging roots and complain about stuff. Deal with it.) In the not so distant past we were growing a VMware cluster and ordered 17...
View ArticleShould We Panic About the KPTI/KAISER Intel CPU Design Flaw?
As a followup to yesterday’s post, I’ve been asked: should we panic about the KPTI/KAISER/F*CKWIT Intel CPU design flaw? My answer was: it depends on a lot of unknowns. There are NDAs around a lot of...
View ArticleIntel CPU Design Flaw, Performance Degradation, Security Updates
I was just taking a break and reading some tech news and I saw a wonderfully detailed post from El Reg (link below) about an Intel CPU design flaw and impending crisis-level security updates to fix it....
View ArticleFixing Veeam “Can’t Delete Replica When It Is Being Processed” Errors
I’ve used Veeam Backup & Replication for a long time now, and when we restructure storage, redeploy VMs, or change our replication jobs we sometimes get situations where we get the error: Error:...
View ArticleAdvice On Downgrading Adobe Flash
VMware has a KB article out (linked below) about the Adobe Flash crashes that happen if you’re running the latest version of Flash (27.0.0.170). A lot of us were caught off guard recently when our PCs...
View ArticleSoftware is Always Broken
I’m sitting here watching my iPhone update to iOS 11.0.1. Apple says that there are just a couple of fixes: some security updates and a fix for the Exchange email problems. The update is sure taking a...
View ArticleInstall the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) Without Ephemeral Port Groups
Trying to install VMware vCenter in appliance/VCSA form straight to a new ESXi host? Having a problem where it isn’t listing any networks, and it’s telling you that “Non-ephemeral distributed virtual...
View ArticleUse Microsoft Excel For Your Text Manipulation Needs
I’m just going to lay it out there: sysadmins should use Microsoft Excel more. I probably will be labeled a traitor and a heathen for this post. It’s okay, I have years of practice having blasphemous...
View ArticleThree Thoughts on the Nutanix & StorageReview Situation
I’ve watched the recent dustup between VMware and Nutanix carefully. It’s very instructive to watch how companies war with each other in public, and as a potential customer in the hyperconverged market...
View ArticleWhen Should I Upgrade to VMware vSphere 6?
I’ve been asked a few times about when I’m planning to upgrade to VMware vSphere 6. Truth is, I don’t know. A Magic 8 Ball would say “reply hazy, try again.” Some people say that you should wait until...
View Article9 Things You’ll Love About vSphere 6.0
vSphere 6.0, finally. It’s been in beta for what seems like an eternity. Betas are like Fight Club, where the first rule of participation is that you may not talk about your participation. But today’s...
View ArticleLatest ESXi Turns Off Transparent Page Sharing, So Watch Your RAM
Transparent Page Sharing is a technology from VMware that essentially deduplicates memory. Instead of having 100 copies of the same memory segment it keeps just one, and returns the savings to the user...
View ArticleWhy Use SD Cards For VMware ESXi?
I’ve had four interactions now regarding my post on replacing a failed SD card in one of my servers. They’ve ranged from inquisitive: @plankers why would you use an SD card in a server. I’m not a sys...
View ArticleYou Cannot Use open-vm-tools to Customize VMs
Homer Simpson: Kids: there’s three ways to do things; the right way, the wrong way and the Max Power way! Bart: Isn’t that the wrong way? Homer Simpson: Yeah, but faster! My biggest pet peeve with open...
View ArticleCentOS 7 Refusing VMware vSphere Guest OS Customizations
So I just spent two hours of my life trying to get my CentOS 7 VM template to deploy correctly with a vSphere customization specification. No matter what I did it would customize the VM, then...
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