Category Archives: Virtualization

Building USB for ESXi

Posted on February 8, 2019 by larry

One of the things I want to do is build ESXi on a USB flash disk. A quick way is to build it via vmware workstation, then boot it on the physical box. After it is on the physical box, … Continue reading →

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CentOS Kickstart

Posted on January 16, 2019 by larry

Kind of learned this the hard way, but when you kickstart a machine for CentOS 7, 1GB of RAM is not enough. A default install on VMware workstation only assigns 1GB of RAM on a CentOS VM But on an … Continue reading →

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Pain All Over Now

Posted on October 11, 2018 by larry

Not sure why, but my back, my shoulder, my ankle,  all over feels sore. I did go swimming today, but I am still sore. I was working downstairs most of the day, in a few weird angles, but din’t think … Continue reading →

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New ESXi host is up

Posted on October 8, 2018 by larry

Finally got the ESXi host up and running in production mode. Big one was figuring out how around a problem where the system thinks a VM was moved every time the host reboots. uuid.action = “keep” Is the parameter to … Continue reading →

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Cracked 270

Posted on October 6, 2018 by larry

For the first time in a long time I cracked 270 lbs. I started late on my run today (afternoon about 1PM) and I think I do Saturday runs better in the morning. My time 1:12:22 for the 5K Passing, … Continue reading →

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New Controller Card Works

Posted on October 1, 2018 by larry

Went through the huge effort get the new card in there yet the problem I was having, where I reboot would cause VMs to forget themselves still exists. I think it will work better though.  Going to try and add … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2018 Homebound

Posted on August 30, 2018 by larry

Finally home, now I get to deal with the problems at home. One huge one is the Internet being down.  Comcast sucks sometimes. I wanted to post more regarding VMworld, but been busy with trying to get Internet back up. … Continue reading →

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VMworld 2018 Day 2

Posted on August 27, 2018 by larry

Much better day at vmworld. I actually got my bag and stuff on time.  A wake up time of 7AM to make it there in time (even with getting my badge and bag) for the keynote. Looks like there is … Continue reading →

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New Tool For Virtual Center

Posted on June 21, 2018 by larry

Today I had to query virtual center. I tried the old vmware-vix utility and it just did not work. Then I found a utility called govc, the binary can be downloaded from here https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/releases/download/v0.16.0/govc_linux_amd64.gz It’s a simple gunzip of the … Continue reading →

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OpenVPN Client on DDWRT

Posted on December 13, 2016 by larry

I finally figured out how to configure DDWRT as an openvpn client.  In this setup it connects to my AWS instance for secure communications. The version of DDWRT is DD-WRT v3.0-r30880 I have this set up both as an X86 … Continue reading →

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