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Install D-Link 528T ethernet adapter drivers on VMware ESXi 5/5.1/6

2021-11-28T23:22:33+02:00

Install D-Link 528T ethernet adapter drivers on VMware ESXi 5/5.1/6 External Link To solve this issue You need to get D-Link 528T adapter driver and log on to ESXi with ssh. Download and upload driver First download D-Link 528T ethernet driver from [here] , unzip it and upload to your ESXi datastore.

Change default network interface name “ens” to old “eth” on RHEL7 / CentOS7

2019-03-19T15:03:33+02:00

Change default network interface name “ens” to old “eth” on RHEL7 / CentOS7 I Hope you all guys noticed that in many of new Linux version Linux/Unix machine network interface name has been changed from eth to ens. In these case sometime we think to change it to old eth naming. In this post we will see howTo Change default network interface name “ens” to old “eth”.

vCenter 5x cleanup

2017-11-07T09:40:25+02:00

vCenter 5x cleanup Symptoms After upgrading to vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 update 2, you experience these symptoms: The vCenter Server Appliance fails or becomes unresponsive In the /storage/db/vpostgres/pg_log file, you see large number of entries similar to:

Enable Adobe Flash Player on Windows Server 2012 R2

2018-04-24T08:37:58+02:00

Enable Adobe Flash Player on Windows Server 2012 R2 When starting the VMware vSphere Web Client on Windows Server 2012 R2, the following message is displayed: To view this page ensure that Adobe Flash Player version 11.5.0 or greater is installed. After that it's not possible to enable Flash because of the following message: Flash Player is integrated with Internet Explorer in Windows 8. You do not need to install Flash Player.

Running Guest Hypervisors with Virtualized HV

2018-09-17T15:24:55+02:00

Running Guest Hypervisors with Virtualized HV You can expose full CPU virtualization to the guest operating system so that applications that require hardware virtualization can run on virtual machines without binary translation or paravirtualization.

Fix cloning eth0

2015-10-02T14:30:48+02:00

Fix cloning eth0 When cloning an Ubuntu VMware virtual machine, eth0 goes missing. Fix the problem by deleting /etc/udev/rule.d/70-persistent-net.rules and rebooting. I ran into an annoyance trying to clone some Ubuntu LAMP virtual machines that I was using for website development. Every time I cloned the virtual machine,

VM - lock was not free

2015-10-15T16:32:15+02:00

VM - lock was not free ---------- The other day we experienced an incident on the SAN storage with high latency and even loss of connection to the SAN. This can generate a lot of really unpleasant errors on the ESX hosts. Even after the SAN is brought back to a stable state we've seen hosts that won't boot, VM's that won't vMotion and VMs that won't power on due to file locks.

Manual set static IP to VCSA

2015-10-20T13:56:44+02:00

Manual set static IP to VCSA ---------- When deploying the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) it will default look for a DHCP address. When there is no DHCP server available the following error is displayed: NO NETWORKING DETECTED, PLEASE LOGIN AND RUN THE COMMAND /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_config_net TO CONFIGURE THE NETWORK

Manually trigger creation

2015-10-02T14:31:03+02:00

Manually trigger creation We are looking to trigger the recreation of the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file under RHEL 6.5 (current patches) QUOTE FROM ARTICLE ABOVE: Resolution •You can manually force udev to create the rules file by running the following command:

ESXi Packages Installation Fails 'Could not find a trusted signer'

2021-12-03T22:42:28+02:00

ESXi Packages Installation Fails 'Could not find a trusted signer' Error Message: # esxcli software vib install -d MLNX-NATIVE-ESX-2014.0514.1634-10EM-600.0.0.1805748.zip [InstallationError] ('MEL_bootbank_nmlx4-core_2014.0514.1634-1OEM.600.0.0.1805748', 'Could not find a trusted signer.') vibs = MEL_bootbank_nmlx4-core_2014.0514.1634-1OEM.600.0.0.1805748 Please refer to the log file for more details.

PowerCLI Commands

2019-02-27T08:53:16+02:00

PowerCLI Commands Connect to VMware ESXi or vCenter Connect-VIServer -Server 10.240.240.240 -User root -Password 'str0mtelecom' Create Snapshot Get-VM deb5-powecli | New-Snapshot -Name "Demo" -Description "Sample snapshot" List All Snapshots to VM

PowerCLI Invalid server certificate

2019-02-25T14:08:47+02:00

PowerCLI Invalid server certificate When trying to connect with PowerCLI to a vCenter Server Appliance the following error occurred: Connect-vIServer : 18-7-2018 13:20:10 Connect-VIServer Error: Invalid server certificate. Use Set-PowerCLIConfiguration to set the value for the InvalidCertificateAction option to Prompt if you’d like to connect once or to add a permanent exception for this server.

PowerCLI after Find-Module Error

2019-02-26T11:03:18+02:00

PowerCLI after Find-Module Error Now that PowerCLI is part of the PowerShell Gallery, you can install it using the native module installer…but there’s a catch. Windows Server 2012 R2 requires a couple of minor updates to get this process underway. You’ll know really quickly if you open up your PowerShell terminal or PowerShell ISE (as Administrator) and try the following command:

StorMagic SvSAN

2022-01-04T12:04:40+02:00

StorMagic SvSAN Download from StorMagic trial version : * svsan_6-2-u5-p3_vcsa_installer.zip ( SvSAN plugin installer ) * svsan_6-2-u5-p3_vsa_ova.zip ( deploy svsan nodes to vmware ) * svsan_6-2-u5-p3_witness_ova.zip ( deploy svsan witness to vmware )

USB Network Native Driver for ESXi

2021-11-28T23:28:22+02:00

USB Network Native Driver for ESXi External Link Step 1 - Download the ZIP file for the specific version of your ESXi host and upload to ESXi host using SCP or Datastore Browser Step 2 - Place the ESXi host into Maintenance Mode using the vSphere UI or CLI (e.g. esxcli system maintenanceMode set -e true)

vCenter IPv4 configuration

2017-02-10T10:51:45+02:00

vCenter IPv4 configuration

Unable to access new Administration and Licensing features in the vSphere Web Client 6.0

2017-02-09T11:12:30+02:00

Unable to access new Administration and Licensing features in the vSphere Web Client 6.0 Symptoms After upgrading or deploying the vCenter Server 6.0 or vCenter Server Appliance 6.0, you are unable to access some of the features in the vSphere Web Client:

Unable to push certificates to host

2021-09-10T13:43:12+02:00

Unable to push certificates to host Joining new hosts failed with certificate issues – I was getting certificate issues when trying to join NEW hosts to a new host cluster in this datacenter in vSphere. There is a vCenter setting (vCenter -> Configure

XPEnology DSM 7 vm-tools

2022-05-29T16:21:05+02:00

XPEnology DSM 7 vm-tools Once you have installed DSM, and gone through initial setup, you will want to install VMware Tools. We enable this through the use of a Docker container. Go to package manager, and install Docker. Enable SSH in DSM, and connect via SSH.

XPEnology DSM 7 VMware

2022-05-29T16:23:57+02:00

XPEnology DSM 7 VMware