I was recently working with Horizon View and VMware Identity Manager in a lab environment. To recreate a specific issue, I needed to enable two-factor authentication. I found a great article describing how to setup RADIUS with Google Authenticator to make this happen (https://blogs.vmware.com/consulting/files/2015/02/VMW_15Q1_TD_Horizon-View-Google-Authenticator_021715_FINAL_EMonjoin.pdf). Unfortunately I ran into a few…
Recently I’ve been working in a couple of different / disconnected labs. This means I’m managing a couple copies of all my templates manually. Sometimes its hard to find the right section of my notes depending on when/where I’m working on the lab, so I decided to post a couple…
Recently I’ve been working in a couple of different / disconnected labs. This means I’m managing a couple copies of all my templates manually. Sometimes its hard to find the right section of my notes depending on when/where I’m working on the lab, so I decided to post a couple…
I recently updated Log Insight to version 3.3.2 in my lab. After selecting the appropriate PAK file, the UI displayed a warning containing the following text: Note that certain builds of ESXi need to have their syslog configuration reloaded after restart, otherwise log data will stop forwarding. Configuration can be…
I recently noticed a link to a very interesting article on Twitter: Find ESXi Installation Date — http://vcdx56.com/2016/01/05/find-esxi-installation-date/. These steps are straight forward and show how to calculate the original ESXi install date, looking at the first section of the UUID. I didn’t realize so much useful information was coded…