vCSA does not boot due to issues with a LVM physical volume
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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...
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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
Horizon Client Installer Failed
Horizon Client Installer Failed #vExpert
Reconfigure diagnostic partition using Get-EsxCli -V2
The following powershell snippet is going to unconfigure the diagnostic coredump partition using the esxcli version 2 cmdlet. The second part will reconfigure the diagnostic partition with the 'smart' option so that an accessible partition is chosen. If you want to...
Configuring Tesla M60 cards for NVIDIA GRID vGPU
There are a couple of steps which need to be taken to configure the Tesla M60 cards with NVIDIA GRID VGPU in a vSphere / Horizon environment. I have listed them here quick and dirty. They are an extract of the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software User Guide. On the...
Unsupported upgrade of VCSA 6.5 U2 to 6.7
I decided to upgrade the vCenter Server Appliance from 6.5 U2 to 6.7 though it is not supported, see VMware KB. As this is not supported you will NOT want go ahead with this in a production environment. Maybe I will have regrets later on too … but this is my lab...