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  • Build Photon OS appliance using packer.io

    Jul 21, 2020 appliance Photon OS vCenter VMware vSphere

    I found a great article from William Lam about how to build an Photon OS virtual appliance which includes OVF settings for configuration. During my initial tests I faced some issues like the virtual machine network did not connect properly and others. First I had changed the existing scripts to work with the vmware-iso …

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  • Whats new in vSphere 6.7 VAMI: Backup

    Apr 27, 2018 appliance Backup VAMI vCenter VCSA VMware Whats new

    The backup in the VAMI now contains a scheduler including retention policy: Example configuration: How it looks with multiple backups:

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  • Whats new in vSphere 6.7 VAMI: Syslog

    Apr 26, 2018 appliance VAMI vCenter VCSA VMware Whats new

    Now you can configure up to 3 Syslog servers in the VAMI to receive the vCenter logs: Click on configure: Supported protocols:

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  • Homelab the current state

    Sep 4, 2016 appliance ESXi HA HP Patches Server vCenter VMware

    It’s time for a new update about my new Homelab. In the past I was running HP Microserver 2x N40L and 1x Gen8. All these machines are still here but no longer in use and will be for sale soon. My new Homelab contains now 2x HP ML10v2, 1x Zyxel 16 Gbit Switch, 1x Lenovo ix4-300d storage. 2x Server HP ML10 v2: HP …

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  • VDP increase memory to 8GB per VDP appliance

    Jul 25, 2013 appliance VDP VMware

    If you are facing issues with failed VDP backups try to increase the memory of the VDP appliances to 8GB. In my environment this has improved the situation. Still issues but 50% less.

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  • Virtual appliances

    Jan 19, 2012 appliance

    I tried a lot of “appliance” but the most of them are not appliance. Always the same stuff, they virtualize a server and call it virtual appliance. There is no menu to configure the network and so on. Just an virtual machine with an full OS and an application. A real virtual appliance has an OS called JeOS (Just enough …

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  • OpenSource RedHat Satellite Server – Spacewalk

    Oct 19, 2010 appliance CentOS Software Management

    I found this software during my search for a management solution for a virtual appliance farm running hundreds of CentOS based virtual machines. As CentOS is binary compatible to RedHat it makes sense to use a RedHat satellite server equivalent for software management. Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems …

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  • Root cause for our PSOD – VRAM settings

    Jun 15, 2010 appliance HP PSOD VMware

    We found the root cause for our PSOD. VMs with a VRAM setting higher then 30MB. VMware KB: 1011971 Workaround: – find all virtual machines with VRAM settings higher then 30MB – shutdown these VMs and reconfigure the VRAM settings (<30MB) - start VMs

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  • VMware vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) tutorial

    Jun 9, 2010 appliance VMware

    I found the following side about the vCO. They have created a very good tutorial to create a simple self service workflow. I’m going to setup a vCO in the next days. After this I will create a self service workflow to request virtual reverse proxy appliances. www.vcoteam.info

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  • Update about Proxmox

    Apr 20, 2010 appliance HP Proxmox Ubuntu

    My HP Dl115 G5 is now running Proxmox VE. My first impression is that this is a quite good virtualisation plattform. I have created some virtual machines (OpenVZ using the templates and KVM using a Ubuntu 10.04 iso) which was really easy! In the next days I’m going to run some tests with different configurations. In …

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