I tried to add my freshly installed rPI 4 running ESXi on ARM to my HomeLab vCenter. It failed with “A general system error occurred: Unable to push signed certificate to host 192.168.0.99” The root cause is that the rPI has no battery backed RTC therefore the time is out of sync and all certificates are invalid. Quick …
Read MoreDisclaimer: This is not officially supported by VMware, please use at your own risk. Recently I faced the challenge with a script running on a VCSA which executes some checks and in case something gets detected it has to trigger a vCenter alarm. My solution is to log a user event which will be captured by an vCenter …
Read MoreVMware has released vSphere 6.5 U1 Release notes: vsphere-esxi-651-release-notes vsphere-vcenter-server-651-release-notes
Read MoreI would like to receive push messages for triggered alerts from my vCenter. There is the possibility to execute a command when a alert has been triggered so I decided to write a script which will use Prowl to send push notification to my mobile apple device. I used Prowl already for other devices like my Homematic home …
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