June 3, 2024

Hosts out of sync after restoring vCenter

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  Background After working with VMware Support on a case we were asked to install a special patch on the vCenter server. It turned out this ...
December 28, 2023

Jumpstart plugin late-filesystem activation failed

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  Problem When installing ESXi you sometimes get this error message after pressing F11 to accept the EULA: Solution The reason you're se...
April 1, 2023

CloudBuilder fails to deploy vCenter during initial deployment

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Background  When deploying VCF 4.5 you should be able to do that in an air gapped environment that has no access to the internet. In such ca...
March 1, 2023

LPe12000 and other old Emulex cards are unsupported if you patch ESXi 7.0U3

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  Background In January 2020 Broadcom announced that a series of Emulex cards would soon go End Of Life. They have however worked fine in V...
May 4, 2022

Horizon Client 8.5 crashing on Linux

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Background After upgrading from version 8.4 the Horizon Client was unable launch correctly. Launching it from the command line showed a segm...
May 17, 2021

Priority tagging of vSAN traffic

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 Background According to Cisco COS is defined as "Class of Service (CoS) or Quality of Service (QoS) is a way to manage multiple traff...
April 19, 2021

Autoinstall physical NSX Edge with custom passwords

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Background Setting up NSX Edge in an automatic way with a custom password is a good idea because by default you get a default password that ...