Easier method to simulate custom ESXi SMBIOS…

Easier method to simulate custom ESXi SMBIOS…

Happy 2025! 🎉 Here is a fun one to kick off the New Year ☺️ Last year, I demonstrated a method for customizing the SMBIOS hardware string using Nested ESXi, but the solution was not perfect and required hacking up a VM ROM file and it was also limited to using the BIOS firmware for […]


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VMware Cloud Service Providers on Innovating…

VMware Cloud Service Providers on Innovating with VCF #CloudServiceProviders #PrivateCloud #VMwareCloudFoundation #IBMCloud #Rackspace #TSystems #ITInfrastructure

VMware Cloud Service Providers on Innovating…

VMware Cloud Foundation is the perfect underpinning for our VMware Cloud Service Providers’ innovation efforts. Its flexibility allows them to run a modern private cloud for their customers that feels like a public cloud. When combined with their own expertise and services, the result is solid […]


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Unable to deploy OVF in vCenter/vSphere Client

Unable to deploy OVF in vCenter/vSphere Client

I wanted to import a VM in a vCenter managed vSphere 7 cluster, but during the deployment/import task an error occured! I checked the the /var/log/vmware/vpxd.log, where i found the following line Transfer failed: Invalid response code: 403, note that HTTP/s proxy is configured for the transfer.


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