Author Archives: krylon

A particularly annoying issue where an iOS device will constantly forget about a hidden wireless network. The problem seem to start after upgrading it to iOS 10. In this case it was an iPhone 5. Resetting the network settings would … Continue reading →

Scenario: You have an existing RAID array in OMV and you have replaced each drive one at a time with a larger drive. Now you wish to grow the array into the larger size but it turns out the GUI … Continue reading →

I ran into a problem when trying to have an OpenMediaVault 2.x Guest machine act as an iSCSI target for an ESXi 6.5 Host iSCSI initiator. The goal was to have OMV share a datastore for the ESXi host using … Continue reading →

OMV (version 2.x) has an iscsitarget plugin available (openmediavault-iscsitarget), however the web interface only supports BlockIO type of targets and I was looking to implement FileIO. After installing the plugin, it is possible to manually configure the OMV plugin for … Continue reading →

If you have multiple network cards for OMV (such as using one for a dedicated storage network), you may be looking to force OMV to assign all iSCSI traffic to one network card. A word of caution – if you … Continue reading →

Ran into a situation where an “x” was not available for removing a USB Controller from a Guest. To resolve, first shut down the guest (if running) and temporarily Unregister it from the host. Then from the datastore, download the … Continue reading →

If you have a fresh install of a mysql server running on Debian (e.g., after running apt-get install mysql-server) you may find that any mysql client connections from other computers to your Debian server fail (one popular example is Kodi … Continue reading →

After installing open-vm-tools, ESXi reported that VMware Tools were Installed and running on the Debian 8 guest. However any attempt to gracefully power off the guest within ESXi would fail with these errors: [msg.tools.haltFailed] The request to Power off this … Continue reading →

Ran into a second error after swapping out a pass-through device in ESXi. This device was the same make and model as the previous device. Failed – Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed. * Module ‘DevicePowerOn’ power on failed. * Missing … Continue reading →

Initially the guest had a pass through HBA controller that was working well. That controller was later upgraded in the host. To update the guest with the new controller, the old pass through device was removed and the new pass … Continue reading →