Restore ESXi network connectivity after you…

Restore ESXi network connectivity after you…

Ok another booboo for the books 🙂 . After several troubleshooting attempts I wasn’t able to restore my vCenter. At that time I kind had it, and in a moment of frustration, I deleted my vCenter without thinking to much about it. Now if you have distributed switches, like me, you automatically […]


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VMware Cloud Director 10.5.x Certificate…

VMware Cloud Director 10.5.x Certificate…

Today’s topic is about managing certificates for VMware Cloud Director. Well, you’ve come to the right place! In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of changing certificates for VMware Cloud Director 10.5.x. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a newbie in the […]


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Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) host…

Automated VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) host…

ESXi Scripted Installation (Kickstart) has been my go-to method for achieving zero-touch provisioning of ESXi hosts at scale, which I had started using back in the ESX 2.5 days when I was a customer! Having worked at some very larger enterprises, I got the opportunity to experience and manage […]


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Custom ESXi “Dummy” Reboot VIB for vSphere…

Custom ESXi “Dummy” Reboot VIB for vSphere…

A few weeks back, I had a request from one of our Technical Adoption Managers (TAM) that their customer wanted to create a custom ESXi VIB that could be used with vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) and would only require the ESXi host to reboot as part of the remediation. This might sound like […]


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