During re-install of my Cloud Director lab, I noticed that the installation of ovftool (officially named OVF Tool) is not documented. Which seems odd to me, because with 2 variants at hand, it should. In this post I show you how. It’s good to know that ovftool for Linux is Read more…
In November 2022, I wrote a post on my endeavor about installing PowerCLI on my Windows box. I needed PowerCLI 13 ImageBuilder feature, which was the only way to add the USB Network Native Driver for ESXi fling to a custom ESXi ISO image. Check these posts here: PowerCLI 13 Read more…
vCenter raised several alarms because its /storage/log partition was full. The errors were: Find the large logs Logging into the vCenter appliance using SSH is a good starting point for troubleshooting. When searching for the largest file in the /storage/log partition it showed: Of the files listed above, the updatemgr-vmon.log.stderr Read more…
To prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam, basic Linux skills are a necessity. Being able to move the cursor around quickly in the Bash shell and Vim, create aliases and handy environment variables helps saving precious time during the CKA exam. Of course there are plenty of cheat Read more…
To prepare for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam, basic Linux skills are a necessity. Being able to move the cursor around quickly in the Bash shell and Vim, create aliases and handy environment variables helps saving precious time during the CKA exam. Of course there are plenty of cheat Read more…
Recently I moved to the latest Cloud Foundation version (v4.4) in a lab environment that I often re-deploy. I noticed that during the Cloud Builder bring-up phase the deploy of the SDDC managed failed ever since, while using the same input parameters in the deployment parameters workbook. So it worked Read more…
One of my Raspberry Pi’s runs Ubuntu Server 20.04 (Focal) and has a static IP interface configuration using systemd. The Pi is configured in the same way as in the previous post on this topic, “Linux interface config with systemd“. The previous post describes how systemd can be configured for Read more…
Last week I was deploying a Debian 9 (Stretch) based Linux OVA from the Bitnami catalog. One of the first things to do after a deployment is to replace the DHCP assigned IP address with a static one. Deploying the VM itself is not really blog worthy. What did bother Read more…