If your Raspberry Pi is fresh out of the box. You will need to boot into Pi OS and run the following commands.

This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to attend the VMUG User/Con Nashville. The event commenced with an opening speech by Amanda Blevins, VP & CTO Americas at VMware, gave a presenations titled “ There’s No Substitute for Hard Work”.

As I discussed in a previous post, my homelab services are powered by DietPi Linux Virtual machines. These VMs serve as the backbone of my setup, allowing me to manage and maintain a range of essential services. However, a recent challenge emerged as I embarked on an attempt to update...

I recently had the incredible opportunity to attend the VMUG User/Con 2022 event, organized by our local VMUG Group. This gathering of passionate VMware professionals proved to be an enriching experience that left me both energized and inspired.

I am thrilled to share that I successfully completed the Amazon Web Services Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) exam recently. It was a challenging and allowed me to deepen my understanding of AWS cloud concepts. In this blog post, I would like to offer some valuable tips that can help you...

I just want to make a quick post. This week is VMworld 2021. I hope everyone is excited for it. Feel free to comment your favorite sessions this week.

After my recent update to 7.0u2 in my Homelab. I faced two issues:
1) I got a “could not login” message when trying to access my VCSA.
2) The VCenter appliance displayed “vmdir.password is not set”

I am not 100% if they are related (...

I recently had a issue upgrading DietPi to the latest release. The VMs in my homelab are built using the instructions of Part 1 and Part 2 covered

This weekend; I came back home and found my vCenter was crashing. I investigated and was able to solve this error. While this is not a full root cause analysis it will gives you an idea on how to fix the issues if you encounter the same issue.

I just wanted to quickly highlight a great backup product.Veeam Backup and Replication Community Edition Veeam Community edition is a great option for homelabbers. It allows you to backup up to 10 VMs for free. It allows you to get your feet wet with the Veeam backup software.
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Happy Sunday everyone, I just wanted to share quick tip to remove an old datastore that has been decommissioned or is no longer functional. If you are unable to remove it using the vCenter Web UI, try the following. In order to remove it you need to SSH to any...

As of VMware 6.7 the external PSC has been announced as depreciated. The last version that supports an External PSC is 6.7. As more and more organizations are planning the move to 7.0 and beyond. Converging the PSC will be important. As this is not a regular task of a...

In today’s lessons learned, I want to cover restoring vCenter from a image based backup. An image based backup is taken by a application such as VEEAM, Avamar, or Commvault. Since vCenter is the center of your VMware environment,a non functional vCenter can be a major issue. I recently had...

Hello Everyone, As we are still in a Pandemic. I have been trying to do some job related training/certification in my downtime. I wanted to make a quick post to highlight a few things I have found out in my research. If you are interested in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft offers...

Today, I want to highlight feature of VMware that up until recently I had not worked with much.

In continuation of part two. Ensure that your vmdk image is attached to a virtual machine on a ESXi ARM host. Ensure the image has a DVD drive attached, and ensure a Debian ARM iso is attached. Expand the disk image to a large size (20GB should be fine) Download...

Background:

Based on William Lam’s guide. Link :https://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2020/10/how-to-run-raspberry-pi-os-as-a-vm-on-esxi-arm.html
DietPi DietPi is a Debian based Linux image. It is designed for low compute Single Board PCs. It optimized for miniature RAM and CPU resources. I highly recommend you check it out. https://dietpi.com/
ESXi on ARM ESXI...