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ESXi local datastores missing after ESXi upgrade 6.7 to 7.0
After upgrading to 7.0 the system datastore was missing (attached via SATA). Related to this article https://jc-lan.org/2017/02/01/poor-performance-in-esxi-6-5-with-jetway-jnf9g-qm77/ I had previously disabled the built in AHCI driver of ESXi due to poor performance. Enabling it again followed by a reboot of … Continue reading
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Upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 via command line (ssh)
This guide is for upgrading ESXi via the command line. For this guide I upgraded from 6.7.0 Update 3 (Build 16075168) to 7.0.0 (Build 15843807) Steps: Set firewall esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient Search for the … Continue reading
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Change Windows Server 2012 R2 Network Connection from Public to Private
One liner via PowerShell (run as administrator) Change Ethernet 1 as appropriate based on what is shown in Network and Sharing Center Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias “Ethernet 1” -NetworkCategory Private
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Steps to Create an OS X Bootable ISO (El Capitan Example)
Apple has steps to create a bootable USB (linked below), but not an ISO file. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 There are also several methods to create an ISO, such as colt2’s method linked below. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/el-capitan-bootable-dvd.1923931/post-22048516 The steps in this guide are what I … Continue reading
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Steps to Upgrade OMV 4.x (Arrakis) to 5.x (Usul)
I had an OMV system running 4.1.35-1 (Arrakis). Initially I tried using the steps from OMV’s ryecoaaron: https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php?thread/27909-eta-for-omv-5-0-2020-2021-2022/&postID=219830#post219830 (This included having to use a Python fix for the weakref.py error: https://jc-lan.org/2020/04/26/openmediavault-weakref-python-error-when-updating) However my progress came to a halt at this … Continue reading
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Windows Installer Coordiantor Hangs on Windows Remote Desktop Servers
Attempting to install an application on Windows Server acting as a RDS resulted in Windows Installer Coordinator hanging indefinitely with the message: Please wait while the application is preparing for the first use followed by the Windows Installer error message: … Continue reading
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Unable to remove Floppy Drive from ESXi Virtual Machine
Problem: Removing the floppy drive and saving the VM configuration, the floppy drive would automatically appear again. Solution: Shutdown the VM and unregister it. Manually edit the vmx file, find one or more lines similar to the below and delete … Continue reading
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Microsoft Project License Error Loop
We had Project Professional (specifically 2016 version 1908) running on Windows Server 2012 R2. Initially Project was installed with SharedComputerLicensing enabled. Later we reinstalled it via Office Deployment Tool and shared computer activation disabled in order to utilize volume licensing … Continue reading
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Ubuntu 20.04 on ESXi Generating multipathd Errors
Brand new install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) running as a virtual machine on ESXi was generating a lot of errors in syslog like the below multipathd[711]: sda: failed to get udev uid: Invalid argument multipathd[711]: sda: failed to … Continue reading
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Mopidy fails to connect to Icecast server with Ubuntu 20.04
Mopidy 3.0.2 was installed on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) using the apt.mopidy.com method. All attempts to connect to a known working Icecast2 server would not work and the Icecast server would not log any errors. However the Mopidy log would … Continue reading
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