Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Fine-Tuning Updates: Targeted Host Remediation with vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Posted on March 26, 2024 by brian.wuchner

In vSphere 7.0 functionality was introduced to be able to manage a cluster of ESXi hosts with a single image. In addition to being a bit easier to configure than the prior Update Manager Baselines, this feature also integrates with … Continue reading →

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Video Card Power Consumption & Savings

Posted on March 5, 2024 by brian.wuchner

The primary system in my homelab is a Dell Precision 7920 Tower. I recently had the case opened and looking inside I saw the video card. This is a physically large Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080ti GPU, but for my purposes … Continue reading →

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Upgrade Issues using Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.16

Posted on March 4, 2024 by brian.wuchner

I recently upgraded to Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.16.0 in a lab and ran into issues upgrading various products it managed. Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) was being upgraded 8.14.0 to 8.16.0, but failed with error LCMVRLICONFIG40004 Aria … Continue reading →

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TinyCore 15 Virtual Machine – very small VM for testing

Posted on February 23, 2024 by brian.wuchner

For several years I’ve been using a couple of very small TinyCore Linux virtual machines for testing in my lab. These run very well in nested infrastructure and have a package to support open-vm-tools so you can interact with them … Continue reading →

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Cannot configure identity source due to Type or value exists.

Posted on February 19, 2024 by brian.wuchner

On vCenter Server 7.0u3p (aka 7.0.3.01800), I recently experienced an error “Cannot configure identity source due to Type or value exists.” when configuring Active Directory over LDAPS. The issue was caused by a duplicate certificate, but that fact was not … Continue reading →

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