Month: March 2024

While updating and testing my Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Lab Deployment Script to support the latest VCF 5.1.1 release, I came across a strange error message in the Cloud Builder UI about uploading the personality to SDDC Manager: Failed to upload personality to SDDC Manager Failed to upload personality to SDDC Manager It turns…

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.1.1 was just released this week and it brings a number of new capabilities including the recently announced VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA solution. One feature that I was really happy to see get introduced is called “License Later” better known as evaluation mode, which will now allow users to deploy…

After deploying a new VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Workload Domain using the VCF Holodeck Toolkit, which leverages Nested ESXi, I noticed the vSphere Cluster Services (vCLS) VMs kept failing to power on and threw the following error message: No host is compatible with the virtual machine I thought this was quite strange, especially since the…

For most users who configure syslog for their ESXi hosts (hopefully everyone is doing that for audit, compliance and troubleshooting purposes), they typically stick with the default syslog ports 514 for UDP/TCP or 1415 for TLS. A huge benefit of using the default syslog ports is that the ESXi firewall is already configured with these…

While catching up on my RSS news feed over the weekend, I came across an interesting article titled: Ancient pre-release version of OS/2 2.0 discovered, released in VM-friendly packages and of course the VM-friendly packages caught my attention but I had never heard of or used OS/2 before. From the article, a software archaeologist known…

While catching up on my RSS news feed over the weekend, I came across an interesting article titled: Ancient pre-release version of OS/2 2.0 discovered, released in VM-friendly packages and of course the VM-friendly packages caught my attention but I had never heard of or used OS/2 before. From the article, a software archaeologist known…

While catching up on my RSS news feed over the weekend, I came across an interesting article titled: Ancient pre-release version of OS/2 2.0 discovered, released in VM-friendly packages and of course the VM-friendly packages caught my attention but I had never heard of or used OS/2 before. From the article, a software archaeologist known…

While catching up on my RSS news feed over the weekend, I came across an interesting article titled: Ancient pre-release version of OS/2 2.0 discovered, released in VM-friendly packages and of course the VM-friendly packages caught my attention but I had never heard of or used OS/2 before. From the article, a software archaeologist known…

Automation scales Operations, that is a phrase that I have used several times today in various conversations with colleagues and customers. I truly believe organizations can scale more efficiently and consistently when leveraging Automation and not be afraid of it or worse, attempting to avoid it at all cost! In fact, Automation is a super…

Several users in the community have reported running into a memory error issue when attempting to upgrade their standalone ESXi hosts using this ESXCLI trick, which has been possible since ESXi 5.1 back in 2012. [MemoryError] Please refer to the log file for more details. Initially, I was not able to reproduce in my lab…