When using Auto Deploy for a stateless ESXi server (ie. PXE boot) over a NIC that is connected to a trunked switch port (in my case 0-4094), it will default to using the native VLAN,…
When exporting an Image Profile from within the Image Builder GUI available in VCSA 6.5, you may come across a fairly obscure error like: Error loading schema XML data: Error reading file \’/usr/lib/vmware-imagebuilder/etc/schemas/vib20-extensibility.rng\’: failed to…
I observed some strange behaviour in the lab recently whereby I was attempting to add an NFS datastore to all hosts (to be used as a shared vmware tools repository). I was expecting to see vmtools…
I came across a situation recently where I was building some nested ESXi hosts and had configured the incorrect IP address for their DNS record, only to realise this after attempting to add the host…
