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…

New accounts cannot log in to vRealize Automation

12 januari 2019 Solutions VMware
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…

vMotion fails at 72%

18 december 2018 VMware
This week I had a strange issue with vMotion. I tried to put a host in maintenance mode and it failed. There were some VM’s that didn’t want to be moved to another host. The error I saw was this: Hmm. Why was this happening to only a couple of…