Author Archives: brian.wuchner

Updating VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) from 5.1.0 to 5.1.1

Posted on April 29, 2024 by brian.wuchner

I recently upgraded a nested lab from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.0 to 5.1.1. A few lessons were learned along the way, and I’m going to document those below. Step 0 – Validate the environment My VCF lab had been … Continue reading →

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TinyCore 15 x64 Virtual Machine – very small VM for testing

Posted on April 1, 2024 by brian.wuchner

I recently made a post about building a new TinyCore 15 virtual machine for testing. As with past VM builds of this distribution, I used the x86 CorePlus ISO image. I had someone ask me why I didn’t use the … Continue reading →

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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 →