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General / VMware / VMware vCenter
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 13. March 2021 · Last modified 9. April 2021
Recently vCenter 7.0 Update 2 was released to the public, with new features and improvements. For me one highlight was the introduction of the "vSphere Native Key Provider" (NKP): a native KMS (Key Management Server), or...
General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware vCenter
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 4. December 2020 · Last modified 6. January 2021
That post is more a quick note, in case someone ever needs this. There might be few very specific and rare situations where you might need the unique vCenter-Instance-UUID. In this case, you can get the...
Once there was a DRS-enabled cluster with a mystery: When trying to start a virtual machine, the very generic error Insufficient resources appeared. However further checking all hosts in the cluster reveals that there’re enough resources...
Recently I’ve seen more cases where the Lifecycle Manager in vCenter 7 fails syncing updates and pulling depot metadata. In this case you see an error like: An error occurred while downloading depot metadata from https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/addon-main/vmw-depot-index.xml.....
When attaching any kind of USB devices, the service usbarbitrator claims those devices to allow passing through USB devices into virtual machines. This is (one of) the reason you won’t see USB sticks as "Storage Devices"...
There was once… a customer who was concernced about the network-wise failover on the ESXi-level, which was not working as he expected it to. To shed some light on the complete scenario… Configuration The configuration is...
General / Tips & Tricks / VMware / VMware NSX-T
by Patrik Kernstock · Published 24. July 2020 · Last modified 5. March 2021
Due to some experiments with NSX-T 3.0 in my lab with ESXi 7.0 hosts I was in need removing the VIB files manually from the host, as the NSX Manager failed doing so. Just to be...
I’m building customized and optimized Windows 10 images for my VDI, removing unnecessary stuff from the Windows installation (to name a few: unneeded drivers, retail/demo files, Hyper-V components). This reduces the disk and memory footprint. Once...
You might have seen my previous blog post about the VMware Appliance for Folding@Home. This article is about how the local console was made underneath – and actually how simple it is. Usually when powering on...
The PhotonOS-based appliance allows you quickly deploying the software by Folding@Home running protein folding calculations using your available CPU/GPU resources to help fighting COVID-19. Deploying the OVA gives you different set of options: In the end,...
