Category: Virtualization

ESXi Intel X710 LLDP Enablement

By default the Intel X710, Dell or Intel branded, have the LLDP agent enabled on the NIC adapter, which causes the DVSwitch’es or for you legacy folks, vSwitch’es to not be able to see LLDP information on the NIC. Fix is to disable the NIC Agent. For Example, if you have 4 total ports in…


PowerEdge 13G boot drive from consumer or enterprise SSD or NVMe via UEFI without BOSS

Use Case: Abiliy to boot an 13G node, either R630 or R730, when using the local RAID or HBA for a storage layer, and wanting to use an additional device for boot. With this procedure and some cheap hardware from Amazon, you can boot from a PCI device, with a U.2 or M.2 SSD or…


oVirt Setup with PowerFlex (ScaleIO) Storage

For many of us out there, running VMware as the only hypervisor is quite expensive. Especially when using a SDS type of storage solution, such as PowerFlex, or legacy ScaleIO. In this post, will contain pointers and gotchas, which require modification to successfully deploy. Configuration of Engine & KVM Hosts For this deployment, a standalone…


iSCSI Storage for VMware ESXi

A million opinions on storage for ESXi over iSCSI from FreeNAS/TrueNAS, all boiled down…


VMware ESXi iSCSI.MaxIoSizeKB

A long awaited find and tweak to iSCSI performance…


Bumblebee Setup on Nvidia Optimus Enabled Laptops + VMware Workstation 12 3D Support

A quick setup to get Nvidia Optimus embedded GPU’s up and running (Fedora 24 tested)…


Import VMware vCenter Trusted Root CA Certs

To avoid having to click multiple SSL exception alerts you can import the VMware Trusted Root CA certs and avoid having to click exceptions on the Web Client and other Plugins….


VMware VCSA Tips & Tricks

Some quick tips and tricks for personal lab VCSA deployment…


Download offline vSAN HCL DB

To download the offline VSAN HCL file which is actually just a JSON file, you just need to load the above URL into a web browser and then save the file….