DIY Ambilight

And now for something completely different… A DIY ambilight system. After our move to a new house (at least for us it was new), my wife spoke the famous words “maybe we need a bigger tv”. So the next day I got a new 55″ Samsung that replaced our old…

Cannot import Puppet Learning OVA in ESX: 47:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to import a Puppet learning OVA in ESX. Sounded pretty easy… But it wasn’t… When I started the import I got an error: Issues detected with selected template. Details: – 47:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value “PIIX4” of ResourceSubType element not found in []. -56:7:VALUE_ILLEGAL: Value…

New accounts cannot log in to vRealize Automation

In my current position I manage a vRealize Automation environment which is also connected to a vRealize Orchestrator server. The vRO server is using vRA as the Identity Provider. For some reason new accounts were not able to log in to the vRO client. So the first thing we checked…