vCenter not using SMTP smarthost but DNS

8 juni 2019 Solutions VMware
The other day I had scheduled a task for a VM and I wanted to get an email notification about the status of that job. So I configured the notification. But the next morning I didn’t find a confirmation email in my inbox. Strange! So I checked the email settings…

vRO – Creating a test copy of your appliance

7 mei 2019 VMware vRealize Orchestrator
Recently I was investigating the migration of an external vRealize Orchestrator instance to an embedded instance inside vRealize Automation. But for testing purposes I didn’t want to use the production appliances… So I had to create a test vRA and vRO appliance. I started with vRO. The control Center has…

DIY Ambilight – part 4

7 mei 2019 DIY
Finally the third USB video grabber arrived. This time I ordered a Gembird UVG-002 with a UTV007 chipset. I plugged it in, booted the PI and started a SSH session. The command lsusb showed me what I wanted to see… The grabber was recognized as a Fushicai USBTV007 video grabber……

DIY Ambilight – part 3

18 maart 2019 DIY
Finally the new LED strip arrived so now I had al the pieces to connect everything together. I started by cutting the LED strip to the desired length. I had a total of 96 LEDs so I cut it in pieces of 8, 21, 38, 21, and 8 LEDs. In…

Allign SDRS Thresholds and Datastore Usage on Disk Alarms

18 maart 2019 Solutions VMware
Last week I was monitoring a relatively large vSphere cluster with several host clusters and datastore clusters. I saw a couple of datastore warnings related to the datastore usage. There were two or three datastores that were more than 75% utilized. Strange, because other datastores in the same datastore cluster…

DIY Ambilight – part 2

7 maart 2019 DIY
A while back I started with an Ambilight project based on a Raspberry PI and Hyperion. All the parts were delivered so I could finish the installation. The last part was to cut the LED strip into 5 pieces and solder them back together so they could be mounted on…

DIY Ambilight

19 januari 2019 DIY
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

15 januari 2019 VMware
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…