vCenter 6.5 + Chrome + Flash == CRASH (macOS)
5 command-line step to fix Chrome, Flash, and vCenter 6.5 access
Create local accounts for VMware ESXi via vMA
Short and simple script to add local users to VMware ESXi hosts via VMware Management Assistant version 6.0 or higher!
Configure Syslog for VMware ESXi via vMA
Simple VMware bourne shell script to update ESXi hosts in vCenter to configure centralized syslog configuration.
vSphere 6 nested in vCloud Director
vSphere 6, nested, in vCloud Director? Yes! I just wanted to play..
VMware Transparent Page Sharing change
VMware disables a major feature of ESXi – this is how you reenable it.
Veeam 8 Error: Failed to open VDDK
If you don’t want to read the detail. To resolve the issue, remove the Basic / evaluation license from the vCenter Server License Manager and restart the VMware VirtualCenter Server service. Additional Information For more information about the VDDK Diagnostic Tool, see the VDDK documentation. I needed a better solution for backing up my VMware virtual machines. Everyone I talked to […]
Install NetApp VAAI to VMware ESXi 5.5
This is actually quite easy to do. Download the NetApp VAAI ZIP file from support.netapp.com and then upload to a datastore accessible by your VMware ESXi system(s). In my example, I put my ZIP file in a folder called isos in the datastore named vmware_nas01. I used a VMware management assistant (vMA) to do this work remotely to skip steps […]
How To Patch vSphere 5 ESXi Without Update Manager
Had my own write up for this process but I found a better write up from Chris Colotti over www.chriscolotti.us.
nginx – conversion complete
Converting from Apache to nginx was far easier than I ever imagined. My conversion took under 30 minutes and I had less than 30 seconds of downtime while I fired up the new daemons.