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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, 1 monthApril 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, 5 monthsJanuary 11, 2023 ago
Homelab

Update VMware Tools package on ESXi

In most cases VMware Tools are available as part of ESXi installation. When updating 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 the latest available version, when Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 5 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 both!) at VMware Explore to all vExperts who registered for the gift. After adding RAM and a SATA SSD, it was time it ran ESXi 8. The specs of this neat, Read more…

By Daniël Zuthof, 6 monthsDecember 12, 2022 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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