Thanks to VMUG advantage I’m running the latest and greatest versions of ESXi and vCenter Server. However, applying a simple VM customization during Ubuntu 18.04.3 template deployment resulted in the network being set but not connected even though the template was. I ended up combining parts of this helpful script seen at Jim Angel’s site […]
I found that the latest version of PowerCLI 10 ran fine in 32-bit mode but VS Code, Powershell ISE, or Powershell console in 64-bit mode were unable to load the module. I would get the following errors when trying to import the newly installed module: Could not load file or assembly ‘log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304’ […]
Trying to get at that sweet esxi 6.7 ISO and your manual download button does absolutely nothing? I found https://communities.vmware.com/thread/518378 and since my pfSense DNSBL feed contains PiHole lists I wanted to do some further digging. Running tail -f /var/log/pfblockerng/dnsbl.log while refreshing the download page reveled the following domain block: tags.tiqcdn.com Then a grep -r 'tiqcdn' /var/db/pfblockerng/dnsbl/* showed the domain in […]
For those that have more than 10 physical NICs on your hosts you may find existing CDP scripts lack a little when trying to sort by hostname and then NIC vmnic0 vmnic1 vmnic11 vmnic12 vmnic2 . . vmnicN Nothing like a little regex and built-in padding to get everything in order. Pass a vmhost host object […]
I had my first experience creating gold images with Windows XP SP2. If I recall correctly I was able to draw down total base process count to ~30, freeing up as much of the 512MB RAM as possible, all while having a 25 character license key burned into memory. Time marches on, capture methods change, and […]
You can find a lot of scripts for vSphere 5.5 CentOS 7 images + customization specs but I found most were dated due to newer releases of open vm tools. I experimented with the CentOS 7 minimal ISO and found this script accomplished everything I needed with guest OS set to ‘CentOS 4/5/6/7 (64-bit)’, NIC using DHCP, and only […]