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 was overkill. The system typically runs virtual machine workloads that…
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 Automation Config (formerly vRealize Salt Stack Config) was being upgraded…
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 like normal virtual machines (for example, cmdlets like Shutdown-VMGuest will…
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 immediately obvious. To configured AD over LDAPS we must provide…
In the vSphere UI, some hosts will occasionally trigger an alarm of “ESXi Host Certificate Status”. VMware Skyline has a finding for this issue as well — vSphere-HostCertStatusAlarm. The resolution is typically straightforward, right click the host > certificates > renew certificate. However, if you have hundreds of hosts where…