Enter the BIOS via F2 at boot and go into System Setup/System Security: Enable TPM Security: (Note: Firmware won’t be displayed until the server reboots) Click on TPM Advanced Settings Select the following options: Apply Secure Boot enabled: Apply settings and reboot the server You will have to disconnect and re-connect the host: After that, … Read More
Put server on maintenance mode Upload ZIP file to Datastore List profiles [root@ESXI03] esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/VMFS-DS/ESXiUpdate/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-8.0.0 .update02-23305546.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A06.zip Name Vendor Acceptance Level Creation Time Modification Time ————————- ——— —————- ——————- ——————- DEL-ESXi_802.23305546-A06 Dell Inc. PartnerSupported 2024-03-08T16:47:19 2024-03-08T16:47:19 Copy the name of the profile [root@ESXI03] esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/VMFS-DS/ESXiUpdate/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-8.0.0.updat e02-23305546.x86_64-Dell_Customized-A06.zip -p DEL-ESXi_802.23305546-A06 Update Result … Read More
We recently deployed vCenter 8 along VRMS (Site Recovery Manager). While the deployment went well, we encountered this issue: Error downloading plug-in. Make sure that the URL is reachable and the registered thumbprint is correct. Certificate for <hostname.LOCAL> doesn’t match any of the subject alternative names: [hostname, 10.0.0.50] While the error ended up being quite self-explanatory, we had to … Read More
Using a SMTP server with unauthenticated port 25: We need to edit this file /usr/lib/unifi/data/system.properties Add the following at the bottom: smtp.checkserveridentity=false smtp.starttls_enabled=false Save changes and reboot the server
On a production environment, we have a new Dell Powervault ME5024 and several Synology boxes, running on Ethernet 10GB. The ESXi cluster has 2 10 GB NICs per host, the Powervault has 8 10GB NICs (4 x 2 on failover) and each Synology has 2 10 GB NICs. The IT manager from this client configured VMware with iSCSI on all … Read More
After 90 days, the password for the 5480 port expires and you need to change it. To do this, we will need console access to the VCSA. Authenticate using the expired root password at the VM prompt, and choose Troubleshooting Mode Options: Enable SSH Use a SSH session to authenticate with the vCenter Once authenticated, do: shell If running this … Read More
On a disk I wanted to expand I had the error GPT PMBR Size Mismatch will be corrected by w(rite) Do parted: parted -l Type fix and press enter
Today we found out that there was a patch messing with our Hyper-V host running Windows 2019, and that it broke how the Hyper-V manager shows the VMs. This patch was possibly KB5022286, but we are not sure at this time. The Hyper-V manager showed only 2 VMs but we had 10 VMs running. When doing a get-vm via powershell, … Read More
In this case we have a Debian physical server running Veeam Endpoint and saving the backups to a Veeam Backup and Replication server. Every now and then the Debian server will stop backing up, and we get this error on the console: 1/04/2023 5:30:32 AM :: Failed to load module [veeamsnap] with parameters [zerosnapdata=1 debuglogging=0 snapstore_block_size_pow=14 change_tracking_block_size_pow=18 logdir=/var/log/veeam fixflags=0 logmaxsize=15728640] … Read More
We recently encountered this problem with a client, having done regular patching on their instance – they suddenly couldn’t send out SMS anymore. The way SMS now works on 3CX has changed, and previous configurations will fail out of the box. First, you will need to set up Telnyx with the new webhook located on the Trunk for Telnyx: … Read More