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FortiGate support overview for vSphere

Many enterprises and service providers use Fortinet products like FortiGate, often running them as a VM’s. If running them virtually on vSphere, what are the current supported versions? FortiOS supported vSphere versions The vSphere 8 support status for FortiGate appliances in VM factor (including the pay-as-you-go variant) was until recently Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 1 monthAugust 29, 2023 ago
Homelab

Fixing missing NIC drivers for ESXi hosts

You may recognize this. You’ve updated your ESXi hosts via vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) or similar method, the host rebooted during remediation and… that’s it. Your host is not reachable anymore. That happened to my lab server last week, while updating it to the latest ESXi 8.0 patch release. So Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 6 monthsApril 17, 2023 ago
VMware NSX
Homelab

Deploy NSX 4.x Edge nodes on unsupported vSphere

NSX 4.0 onwards only supports vSphere 7 and later. In my homelab I’m still running ESXi 6.7 which is joined to a vCenter 8 instance. It’s because the RAID controller in my host is unsupported in ESXi 7+ and no native drivers are available. Running an older ESXi version is Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 9 monthsJanuary 11, 2023 ago
Homelab

Update VMware Tools package on ESXi

In most cases VMware Tools are available as part of the ESXi installation. When updating or upgrading vSphere on an ESXi host, the VMware Tools could be updated, but most of the time not to the latest version. In this post I’ll show you how ESXi hosts can updated to Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 9 monthsJanuary 2, 2023 ago
Homelab

Manually updating ESXi Hosts

How to manual update you ESXi host with the latest VMware patches.

By Daniël Zuthof, 9 monthsJanuary 2, 2023 ago
Homelab

ESXi 8 on the Maxtang NUC

My latest homelab addition is the Maxtang NX6412 NUC which was given by VMware, together with Cohesity (many thanks!) at VMware Explore EU (in the US co-sponsored by NetApp) to all vExperts who registered for the gift. After adding RAM and a SATA SSD, it was time it ran vSphere Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 10 monthsDecember 13, 2022 ago
Homelab

Create ESXi 8 Customized ISO Installer

Once and a while ESXi needs to be installed on a device of which the drivers (NIC / Storage) are not built into the ISO installer (yet). In my case it’s needed for the vExpert homelab Maxtang NUC device. This device has a Realtek PCIe NIC’s not supported by ESXi Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 10 monthsDecember 7, 2022 ago
VMware vSAN
Storage

Thoughts on vSAN NVMe surprise removal support

While designing a vSAN based platform for a customer lately, I was looking into NVMe based ReadyNodes which needed to run ESXi 6.7 U3. While looking for a specific Dell rackmount config in the VMware Compatibility Guide, something caught my interest. Those were the lines at the bottom of the Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsOctober 14, 2020 ago
Intel SSD
Homelab

Homelab storage expansion

The SSD tier in my lab became quite full in the beginning of this year, so the search began for some expansion. All 8 hot-swap slots in my single node lab server are occupied so, it needed to be an NVMe drive due to slot availability but mainly because of Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 3 yearsApril 9, 2020 ago
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