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Having worked a fair amount in my day job with Ansible and Ansible Tower, I was delighted to find out that there was a free version of Ansible Tower called Ansible AWX. Unfortunately, I discovered that documentation on using the product was either severely lacking, or incompatible with current version. Luckily I was able to …
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Install the required graphics card(s) into your server, and power on the ESXi host. Go to VCenter and find the ESXi host the card was installed in. Click on Configure -> PCI Devices and Configure Passthrough Select the GPUs and Audio Controller. The Audio Controller is not necessary, but I tend to use it anyway. …
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Since Ansible only runs on Linux Machines, you’ll need to have access to a Linux Machine or the ability to build one. I have spun up a Photon OS 3.0 VM, so this instructions will be tailored to that. First install ansible tdnf install ansible Next Install Pip tdnf install python3-pip Then install pywinrm so …
Verify your OS Distribution with below or similar. cat /etc/lsb-release For me running Photon OS, I see the below output. DISTRIB_ID=”VMware Photon OS” DISTRIB_RELEASE=”4.0″ DISTRIB_CODENAME=Photon DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=”VMware Photon OS 4.0″ Run tdnf update Query for the F@H Binaries we have installed rpm -qa | grep fah We see we have the following installed First backup your …
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Noticed an oddity in the F@H Appliance that William Lam aka vGhetto of VMware fame. After deploying a couple of his appliances without issue on vCenter 7, I started noticing behavior where the appliance would happily fold, and then crash and restart. Even after reinstalling the appliance I encountered the same behavoir. I logged into …
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Recently been diving into Grafana and InfluxDB at work and playing around a bit at home. Started looking into doing a Speed Test Page in order to see how my Network Speeds are during the day. Stumbled upon a tutorial here. I tried it on a Raspberry Pi 3B, but due to its limited Network …
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Install Raspberry OS on the device. I’ve chosen to use the Raspberry Pi Imager and install Raspberry PI OS 64bit, as the 64bit variant is required for the FAH installer. Be sure to enable headless SSH from this link. I’ve chosen to power my PIs with POE using a POE Hat like this. It’s simply …
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Login to your Synology and launch iSCSI Manager Select Target and click Create Name your Target and Select Next Click Next to create a new LUN Name your LUN and select the size Click Apply and wait for the LUN to setup Login to your Vcenter, select a ESXi Server and click on Configure and …
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How to install vCenter 7 from Scratch
Follow the post below, but when creating the update query obtained from VMware ESXi Patch Tracker append –no-hardware-warning. https://knowledgegainedandshared.com/2017/05/13/easy-esxi-patch-updates/ In my case my query goes from esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-7.0b-16324942-standard \ -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClient To esxcli …
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