Hi, Recently while rebuilding the lab, I came across what seems to be a bug between the hashicorp/vsphere and the vmware/nsxt terraform providers. For example, here's a snippet from code that should work, but doesn't: 1resource "nsxt_policy_segment" "testinglinuxlab1" { 2 display_name = "testinglinuxlab1" 3 …

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In this post I will share a quick tip on how I've managed to deploy a VCF Workload Domain with a single NSX Manager, instead of the standard three. Warning Do not use this trick in production. Neither Broadcom nor me support this deployment. This is purely for testing with limited resources, you have been warned! The …

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Recently while I was trying to update a new homelab server from ESXi 8 to ESXi 8 U3b using the command esxcli software vib update --depot=/vmfs/volumes/<datastore>/depot.zip, I stumbled upon the following error: Profile <> is missing component(s) ESXi,Mellanox-nmlx5. After trying to remove the installed VIBs (that are …

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This is about an issue I encountered in my lab recently. This issue affects vCenter version 8 U2 build 22617221 If you see that cloning VMs and powering on VMs takes forever and they get stuck at 95% and 66% respectively, but eventually finishes after an hour, you can check if you are affected by this issue. Go to the …

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With power pricing getting severely out of hand (well, it has been for months now), I figured I should do my part. Currently, my lab consists of four ESXi servers, two storage servers, one backup server and one personal tinkering server. My ESXi cluster has always ran on about 1.5 hosts worth of redundancy. In order to …

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While everyone is going to make their “new year’s resolutions” I had been thinking of.. What would I like to do in 2023, in an ideal world? (where money isn’t an issue, that is). In terms of professional development there are a couple of trainings and certifications I would like to go for. Not only to brush up on some …

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Today while I installed two new servers in the rack, I had to mount some iSCSI datastores to these servers as I also have them mounted on other servers. I wrote a quick script to do this because I am lazy, and decided to share it here in case it may be useful: 1#!/bin/bash 2 3esxcfg-volume -l > /tmp/dump.log 4cat …

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VMware has launched a new certification. The VMware Cloud Professional – VMware Cloud 2022 certification (yes, that is a mouthful to say over Zoom). In short, let’s call it VCP-VMC 2022 for now. It was first introduced in this post from VMware. This certificate aims to prove that the holder has sufficient knowledge of …

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There’s a new host in town! Called i4i.metal.. What can it be used for? What does it cost? Here’s all the answers. The shiny new i4i.metal host features 64 cores, 1TB of memory (1024 GiB) and ~20.46 TiB of usable blazing fast NVMe storage capacity. That’s a lot of power in a single host. It’s kind of double what the …

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It seems like VMware has listened to the overall feedback that they have received. Usually sysadmins do not agree with each other on a large scale. But one opinion was broadly agreed on; vSphere’s QA was horrible (insert production is QA meme here). Thankfully, VMware has listened to us. On October 5th, they …

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