I recently experienced an issue within a HPE environment where vSphere Lifecycle Management fails to upgrade the firmware on a HP FlexFabric 534FLR-SFP+ Adapter.
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How to request Let’s Encrypt certificates on the NSX Advanced Load Balancer
I’ll request Let’s Encrypt certificates via a ControlScript on two types of Virtual Services.
my helm apps won’t deploy because of pvc issues
My kubernetes app wouldn’t deploy because the default storage class was not specified when I created a TKG cluster on vSphere with Tanzu.
Earlier posts
VCSA 7 U1 available updates error
Update Manager throws an error on a default vCenter 7 U1 install.
VCSA does not boot due to file system errors
vCSA does not boot due to issues with a LVM physical volume
esxtop output is not displaying as it should
esxtop output launched from a terminal emulator displays incorrectly. We will update the environment variable value so esxtop information displays correctly
NSX-T password expiration alarms in the Home Lab
The challenge I have a couple of NSX-T environments in my home lab. I logged on to one of them and saw a couple of open NSX-T password expiration alarms. CAUTIONPassword expiration should be part of your password policy strategy. Disabling the password expiration on a...
Upgrade Methodology – Upgrade the homelab
This post is not as a end-to-end upgrade guide but a methodology guide. Everything is more or less straight forward if one uses the correct methodology. As this is a home lab I have chosen not to add complexity by adding additional nodes to the various components for...
Use iPerf to test NIC speed between two ESXi hosts
Sometimes you want/need use iPerf to test the nic speed between two ESXi hosts. I did because I was seeing a NIC with low throughput in my lab. How can we test raw speeds between the two hosts? iPerf comes to the rescue. I was looking on how to do this on an ESXi...
My first deploy with VMware Cloud Foundation
I have been working on a script to deploy environments on a regular basis in my homelab. While I have made great progress I have not been able to get this completed due to the lack of time. It did up my powershell script writing skills. A while ago I followed a...
Cross vCenter vMotion Utility
My take on the Cross vCenter vMotion Utility
Why you should register for one of the last seats available at #vmugbe
This is my motivation to go to the Belgian VMUG