Welcome to Update 1 of the 6th Stage of my HomeLab. Back from my vacation and in full swing. It is official guys – Datacenter 1 and Datacenter 2 are finally connected via 2x 10GbE fibre optic cables through the two Ubiquiti UniFi 8-Port 10 Gigabit SFP+ Aggregation Switches . As you can see in the picture below, there was quite a bit of work to […]
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When reconfiguring my network environment (soon to be seen in the next HomeLab update) the vCenter gave an error message, which you have already read in the subject. In my case, it was about the vSAN Witness appliance. Of course there is also a Knowledge Base article about this error message and the solution according to VMware is: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2062704 To resolve this issue, check all […]
After the appointment as VMware vExpert by VMware itself, I continue my series of successes. Yep, now I am officially a certified VMware vSAN Specialist.
I got 3 Dell R730 servers on which VMware ESXi 7.0 U3 should be installed normally. During the installation I encountered the following error message: Well, we all know how it feels when we see PSOD so a Purple Screen of Death – pretty much panic. But since we are experienced VMware administrators, we look at any PSODs soberly and go into troubleshooting. 😉 As […]
Yes, Ladies and Gentleman today I got the announcement by VMware that I am officially a VMware vExpert: I am proud to be part of this Expertise Association and I want to thank to all VMware Brothers in Arms in my Team, especially Marc Huppert as my biggest supporter. 😎
If you want to make VM creation easier, you may have VM templates in your VMware vCenter, in addition to automation tools. Accordingly, I wanted to use a Windows Server 2019 template and build a VM from it. In the process, I ran into an error that had not happened to me before: The error message says: Module CPUID power on failed. Failed to start […]
If you are using the NVIDIA A30 GPU graphic card based on the Ampere architecture, especially if you are building a NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform, you need to activate SR-IOV in the BIOS settings of your servers, otherwise your VMs will not power on and you will be left with the error: In my case I have two Dell R750 and I can activate SR-IOV […]
This guide helps you how to update CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 system to have the latest updated packages or OS minor release on the system as well as to keep the system secure. First, let’s look at what are the updates waiting for your system by: The following updates are available for my machine: If you are satisfied with the updates, proceed to install […]
In this post we will see on how you can create VM Customization Specifications policy in VMware vCenter for a Windows Server 2019 VM Template. VM Customization Specifications allows you to configure few options for your Guest OS which is running inside your VM. You can configure things like Timezone, Admin Password, Licesing, Network etc. The most important requirement to apply this policies is, that […]