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  • Unable to connect vSphereVM to NSX-T Segment in Terraform

    calendar Apr 17, 2025 · 3 min read  ·
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    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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  • Fixing missing component(s) nmlx5 during vib update

    calendar Nov 23, 2024 · 1 min read  ·
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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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  • Allow unsupported CPUs when upgrading/installing ESXi 7.0 (updated 10022020)

    calendar Apr 23, 2020 · 2 min read  ·
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    Hi everyone, Here’s a quick tip for the home lab people with old servers that can’t afford to get new hardware (like me). It seems like that you can override the installer terminating when an unsupported CPU is detected. What you need to do, is when booting from the ESXi ISO, press SHIFT+O, and type in: …


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  • ESXi with TPS: more (shared) memory for your homelab

    calendar Jan 3, 2020 · 2 min read  ·
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    Hi everyone, This post will be about a nice trick I learned to get the maximum out of your VMware Homelab. TPS, or Transparent Page Sharing, is a function where, in short, multiple identical virtual memory pages are pointing to the same page within the memory of the host. Here is a whitepaper that goes more in-depth. …


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  • Adding a static route to ESXi

    calendar Jul 22, 2019 · 1 min read  ·
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    Hi readers, This short post will be about how I had to set-up a static route on ESXi to my VPN subnet. My setup is as follows: I have an ESXi server in DC1, and a ESXi server at home. The Home ESXi server has vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager on it. My goal was to have vRealize Operations Manager give rightsize …


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Michelle Goossens

A young student who is a fan of VMware. Running my own lab and blog, exploring the capabilities of VMware and how it all works, along with documenting my journey and any issues that may occur.
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Recent Posts

  • Unable to connect vSphereVM to NSX-T Segment in Terraform
  • Quick Lab Tip: Deploy VCF workload domain with single NSX Manager
  • Fixing missing component(s) nmlx5 during vib update
  • Fixing slow vService Manager
  • Cost savings in the Lab
  • My Professional Certification/Training Goals for 202X
  • [Quick script] – Automatically scan for unmounted VMFS datastores and mount them
  • Thoughts on the new VCP-VMC 2022 exam (and I passed!)

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