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Following are offline or portable executives of some IT tools. I’ll continue update the list whenever I find a new one. Google Chrome offline installer Flash Player offline installer for Chrome Flash Player offline install for FireFox Flash Player offline update for IE 11 on Windows 10 (Fix IE crash problem when login to vSphere…
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This error may only appears on legacy ESXi hosts. The cloning of virtual machine throws error at 33% of the task. Clone virtual machine Could not complete network copy for file /vmfs/volumes/5xxxxxxe-4fb01111-3911-0ccxxxxxac38/TEST/TEST.vmdk Copying Virtual Machine files You may see following logs on vpxa.log of source ESXi host. 2017-11-02T02:51:20.238Z [FFF43B70 info ‘Libs’ opID=812BF517-00000667-f0-34-64] SSL: syscall error…
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To achieve Auto Deploy I’d like to control PXE boot process. I want the vNICs of management network can do PXE boot only. That’s because DHCP server may learns incorrect MAC address of management network if ESXi host boots up by non-management network NICs. The psychical servers are easy to disable PXE boot feature of…
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There are plenty of scripts to find tagged ESXi hosts. But what if you want to find out all ESXi hosts not be tagged? Following is a simple script: Compare-Object ((Get-VMHost | Get-TagAssignment).Entity | select -uniq) (Get-VMHost) The output is similar like following: InputObject SideIndicator ———– ————- esx1 => esx2 => esx3 =>…
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I searched internet but there is no more information about this specific error message. When you upgrade to Windows Server 2012 R2 or 2016. You may see following error message: Windows won’t install unless each of these things is taken care of. Close Windows Setup, take care of each one, and then restart Windows Setup…
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I built a simple Auto Deploy environment by vSphere 6.5 on nested environment. I created virtual ESXi hosts on a physical ESXi host to do the testing. The whole configuration was smoothly, I’m impressed Auto Deploy can be implemented in few hours. One thing bothered me was networking. New ESXi hosts cannot get IP addresses…
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You may not able to remove NetApp folders after uninstall NetApp Virtual Storage Console for VMware. The reason is customized fonts are still loaded by Windows. You need to delete all fonts values mapped to NetApp VSC folder in Windows register HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionFonts.
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Noticed a interesting limitation on VMware virtual machines. If you configure multiple SCSI controllers and distribute more than 8 virtual disks. You may experience randomly OS boot up failure when power cycle VMs. Only last 8 disks with higher SCSI ID present in boot order settings of BIOS. You cannot choose the disks with lower…
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Reporting is important to management. To be a IT Pro, you may need to run regular reports for management. Some reports may be generated time consume. vRealize Operations Manager is an alternative to create customized reports. It’s a powerful product to organize data and create PDF or CSV files on scheduled intervals. I recommend have…
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I was trying to update one Windows Server 2016 by standalone patch file. Somehow nothing happened after I double click the installer file. That’s because Windows Server 2016 prevent execute the file due to it’s download from internet. The quick fix is right click the file – Properties – Check Unblock – Click OK button.…