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Quick post on how to limit  character input in a vRA TextBox. – Create a Property Dictionary – Click Edit – Add a New Property Attribute – Select RegEx Inp Sample Regular Expression: \w{3,5} – Limit the input only for any word combination with minimum of 3 and  a maximum of 5 characters.

I recently encountered issue in the installation IaaS component of vRealize Automation 6.2.1. Normally, you just run the pre-req automation PS1 script, execute the IaaS installer and you’re all set. But for this instance, I keep receiving the below error:  System.Data.Services.Client.DataServiceTransportException: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send. —> System.N

Just wanted to share what I normally do when I need to reinstall/ install a new ESXi instance for my home lab. Normally, you have to use Rufus or any tools that can create a bootable USB. For me, I just use VMware Workstation to directly write to my USB. you just have to target the USB as the whole Physical Drive, mount the ISO, and install away! Steps: Create VM In the Wizard, use Entire Disk WARNING: Make sure to t

Quick post on how to change IP of vRealize Orchestrator via VAMI (Virtual Appliance Management Interface): 1. go to /opt/vmware/share/vami 2. Initiate ./vami_set_network <interface> STATICV4 <IP> <NETMASK> <GATEWAY>  

Had a Customer where the vCenter Appliance is stuck at “Checking for updates” even after reboot. This caused if you try checking for updates without any internet. The solution is to initiate a manual process from within the vCenter Appliance console. Steps: 1. Log into Appliance with SSH  2. /opt/vmware/bin/vamicli update –check 3. /opt/vmware/bin/vamicli update –install latest –accepteu

There have been numerous advancement in ZFS over the years and it’s time for me to revisit this just in time for my VMware Lab revamp (more on this in a future post!). My 3 year old Synology DS412+ is not just cutting it in keeping up with the workloads I’ve been churning in from the 3 x ESXi hosts. Previous Setup Synology DS412+ 3 x 2 TB WD RED running RAID5 1 x 1GB NIC serving NFS 1 x 1GB NIC for genera

The best and greatest version of vSphere is finally here! Instead of listing down all the new features, I’ll be focusing on one new feature per article. Have you tried managing multiple vCenter environments with different versions of templates spread across different sites? .. I do and it’s a nightmare. Looking for that one good version across different sites is painful. In the past, you had to resort to

Recently experienced PSOD issue on one of my clients. Turns out it was because of the out-dated emulex driver included with ESXi installer. KB for the issue is already public and you can find more information here: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2072254 How to know if your vulnerable: esxcli software vib list | grep -i elxnet If your version is below: 10.0.783.13, you need to update!

Got the following error from one of our Customer. They were running Linux. Googled around and it turns out – the VMware Tools didn’t install completely. It missed creating tools.conf. To get around this, create the following file: tools.conf [logging] log = true # Enable tools service logging to vmware.log vmsvc.level = debug vmsvc.handler = vmx # Enable new “vmusr” service logging to vmware.log vmusr.lev

Are you using HP Server? This is because of out-dated HP Management Agent. Resolution: Update HP Management Agent in the esxi OR Stop it completely. /etc/init.d/hp-ams.sh stop