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“Hackintosh is a computer that runs Apple’s Macintosh operating system macOS on computer hardware not authorized for the purpose by Apple.” Wiki All credits belong to the OpenCore official guide. I cannot complete without the super detailed guide. 🙂 Hardware is the first step for Hackintosh. You need compatible computer parts that macOS can support. … Read more
You may see vpxd.stats.maxQueryMetrics relevant error when retrieving performance data of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, or other entities on vCenter Server by PowerCLI. The full error message: This operation is restricted by the administrator – ‘vpxd.stats.maxQueryMetrics’. Contact your system administrator VMware published a KB about how to fix that. Please notice that the mentioned vCenter … Read more
My home lab virtual machines are connected on private network 192.168.1.x. All internet traffic goes to a gateway server and is forwarded over the internet network adapter. The gateway server is a DHCP server also to assign IP addresses to my lab devices. The benefit to use my own DHCP server is I can control … Read more
I installed a macOS virtual machine on VMware Fusion. As you may know, the installation time is super long. It took me about 1 hour to complete the installation. To save recovery time in case my computer OS needs to be re-installed. I exported the virtual machine to an OVA file to another partition. However, … Read more
I used to see two common errors on the new created Microsoft Failover Cluster. “DNS bad key” and CNO update error. Cluster network name resource ‘Cluster Name’ failed registration of one or more associated DNS name(s): DNS bad key or Cluster network name resource failed registration of one or more associated DNS names(s) because the … Read more
The Azure image was introduced in 2014 by Microsoft. It’s a more comprehensive image for Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines. Azure is a highly available cloud. Solution design needs to always take failover and tolerance into account. Therefore, copy Azure images to other subscriptions or regions is something we need to consider. There are three methods … Read more
HashiCorp Packer is an image management tool for DevOps. You may experience packer naming conflicts if the OS is Red Hat or CentOS.
“Static Key Ciphers” are used on Windows Server 2016/2019 for backward compatibility with legacy applications. It existing on Windows operating system by default. Hackers can decrypt the traffic if the weak cipher suites are being used. Hence how to secure the traffic is important for Windows security.
You may need to access the internet with a VPN for privacy or performance. The most popular VPN solution is Shadowsocks. If you are an IT Pro, you may face a similar issue that I’m facing: How does VM share host VPN connection? My home lab is running on top of VMware Workstation on a … Read more
It’s useful to get email notification when there is an alarm raised in vCenter Server. To configure the function. You need a valid SMTP server. And configure the SMTP server on vCenter Server. If there is a problem that vCenter Server is not sending email alerts. We need to isolate is it a vCenter Server … Read more
