An issue that I ran into after upgrading to the latest PowerCLI 13.0 release after it GA’ed was attempting to export an ESXi image profile that I had created to an ISO file using the Export-EsxImageProfile cmdlet and immediately hit the following error: Export-EsxImageProfile: Error retrieving file for VIB ‘VMware_bootbank_esx-update_8.0.0-1.0.20513097’: (‘vib20/esx-update/VMware_bootbank_esx-update_8.0.0-1.0.20513097.vib’, “Unable to open VIB…
Month: November 2022
How to install PowerCLI 13.0 and use new Image Builder & Auto Deploy cmdlets on Apple Silicon?
PowerCLI 13.0 was just released about a week ago and I have been using it like crazy, especially with the new Image Builder and Auto Deploy cmdlets, which have now been ported over to PowerShell Core and finally removing the Windows-only dependency for these specific cmdlets! 😀 I have both an x86 macOS system and…
vSAN 8.0 ESA – Dude, where’s my vSAN disk group?
Last week I was talking to a customer and he mentioned that he deployed vSAN 8.0 in his lab and he was shocked that when he wanted to define disk groups he noticed that they don’t exist anymore. Well, not in vSAN 8.0 ESA (Express Storage Architecture) that is. They do still exist in the…
How to automate checking for new vCenter Server updates in vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM)?
A question that I had received during VMware Explore Barcelona, was how to automate the checking for new updates that are available for their vCenter Server? In the vSphere UI, when a new update is available and applicable, you will see a new blue label called Update Available under the Summary view when your vCenter Serve…
USB Network Native Driver for ESXi Fling now supports vSphere 8!
I know many of you have been holding off on your vSphere 8 upgrade, patiently waiting for a compatible version of the popular USB Network Native Driver for ESXi Fling. Today, the wait is finally over and you can now head over to the USB Network Native Driver for ESXi Fling page to download latest…
Creating custom ESXi images using vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) UI and PowerCLI cmdlets for vSphere 8
I have started to use vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) more and more, especially after upgrading to vSphere 8 as it will be the primary lifecycle management solution going forward for both vSphere image and configuration management. The other reason for using vLCM is that vSphere Update Manager (VUM) baselines have also been deprecated in vSphere 8…
vSphere UI Client Plugin named N/A after vSphere 8 upgrade
This past weekend I finally got a chance to upgrade my personal homelab to vSphere 8, which went super smooth! As shared on Twitter and Mastadon, I started with my VCSA which was running vSphere 7.0 Update 3h and once that had completed and running for a couple of days, I then upgraded my single…
Virtual NUMA (vNUMA) and CPU Hot-Add support in vSphere 8
While looking for something in the vSphere 8.0 API Reference, I stumbled onto a new VM configuration setting in vSphere 8 called exposeVnumaOnCpuHotadd which looks quite interesting and has the following description: Capability to expose virtual NUMA when CPU hotadd is enabled. If set to true, ESXi will consider exposing virtual NUMA to the VM…
Unexplored Territory Podcast 31 – VMware Edge Compute Stack? Featuring Marilyn Basanta!
In episode 30 we spoke with Alan Renouf about the potential future of edge deployments, aka Project Keswick. We figured we also need to cover what is available today in the form of VMware Edge Compute Stack, so we invited Marilyn Basanta who is the Senior Director at VMware for Edge! Marilyn explains what the…
ESXi on Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast (Serpent Canyon)
The Intel NUC Enthusiast product line is typically geared towards content creators and gamers. These Intel NUCs, include Skull Canyon, Hades Canyon and Phantom Canyon, are all equipped with an onboard discrete GPU. The Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast, codenamed Serpent Canyon, is the latest offering in this product line and it is also the first…