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Copying Home Assistant configuration to GitHub

14 november 2022 DIY HomeAssistant

After some issues with my Home Assistant setup, I looked at ways to save my configuration files to GitHub. I found a very detailed Youtube video that showed how to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhv-WqGUy_o However, in the end, the automated solution used an option I did not want to use: “StrictHostKeyChecking=no“.…

Handy one-liners

1 april 2021 VMware No Comments

Every once in a while you stumble upon a one-liner that you want to remember. So where do you keep those? Here! Clear VCSA Backup History rm /storage/applmgmt/backup_restore/backup-history.json Reset VAMI Update Status rm /etc/applmgmt/appliance/software_update_state.conf Restart Management Agents services.sh restart &tail -f /var/log/jumpstart-stdout.log Finding Templates based on Tag name (Get-Template |…

The system has insufficient locker space for the image profile

12 maart 2021 Solutions VMware No Comments

While updating several hosts to the latest patch level I encountered an error on one of the hosts: The locker folder on an ESXi host contains the VMware Tools images and is also used as a temporary storage location. A quick look at the folder (through SSH) showed some weird-looking…

Testing Script Runtime Service for vSphere – part 2

1 februari 2021 PowerCli Powershell VMware No Comments

In the first part of this blog, I installed the Script Runtime Service and checked if it was installed correctly.In this second part, I will give you a walkthrough of how to run a simple script. In order to successfully run a script, you must have some understanding of how…

Reporting on your Windows Server backup

18 januari 2021 Powershell Script Solutions No Comments

A while ago I blogged about backing up my virtual home lab for free with Veeam Backup & Replication 10. The server on which I installed this is a Windows Server 2016 server that is also used for backing up my home PCs and laptops. And on this server I…

Testing Script Runtime Service for vSphere – part 1

7 januari 2021 PowerCli Powershell VMware No Comments

Last year I tweeted about the introduction of the Script Runtime Service and now I decided to give it a try. The reason for this is that I think this is something we all waited for: a central script host. At first, I thought this was an evolution of the…

Using ADFS with vCenter 7

20 november 2020 VMware No Comments

A while ago I wrote an article about using LDAPS to connect vCenter to Active Directory. In that article, I mentioned a second (secure) option to connect to AD: by using ADFS. In this article, I will give you the steps to change your vCenter Identity Provider from Embedded to…

Network Port Diagram vSphere

19 november 2020 VMware No Comments

I was troubleshooting an issue with an ESXi host and Update Manager for which I needed the firewall ports. In KB2131180 you can find a PDF document with a beautiful diagram and reference table. But getting all the required ports between a specific source and destination was not easy. So…

Joining ESXi hosts to AD using Authentication Proxy in vCenter 7 (updated 04-12-2020)

16 november 2020 VMware No Comments

When you want to use named accounts for managing your ESXi hosts, you can join your hosts to Active Directory. So you go to the host in vCenter, click on Configure, Authentication Services, and click on Join Domain… There you can enter the name of the Active Directory domain and…

Windows Server 2019 customization issue

5 november 2020 PowerCli Solutions VMware No Comments

I was asked by a colleague to help him with a problem he had customizing a Windows Server 2019 deployment. He had no problem customizing a Window Server 2016 VM so had no idea what the problem was. The first thing I did was a manual deployment. I created a…