almost daily tech ramblings
It’s been a long while since I wrote something here. I feel like this could be useful to others. I was faced with a situation where I needed a TFTP server. A quick search showed me that MacOS has a built in tftp server, but not in a running state by default. To check to … Read more
well according to this blog.. this isn’t a straight upgrade… looks like I’ll have to actually set aside a nice chunk of time to do this. Updating PHP on an AWS Lightsail WordPress Stack | Harry Bailey In a nutshell I would need to spin up a newer LightSail instance and migrate everything over. Not … Read more
So I recently ran into some journal size limits for a VPG with the target site being in Azure. But from what I gather from Zerto support, this method should work for all public clouds. I initially thought that I could increase the journal size the same way with on prem Zerto installations. That was … Read more
So I noticed that disk space on my VCSAs were getting full or were already full. I’ve used the following command to find all files older than 45 days, and then to remove them the first part of the command locates the files i’m look for and where,+mtime sets how far back you want to … Read more
Always check disk space…. just saying….#windows #sysadmin
So I was troubleshooting a VM that had a nVidia GPU. The issue with the VM was that it was not reachable, multiple reboots yielded the same results. To troubleshoot, I needed to get into the VM, so I powered it off, and removed the GPU in the VM’s settings, saved it, and powered it … Read more
If you’re still running vSphere 6.0 like I am, Windows 10 VMs will not have any sound. To fix this, you’ll need to edit the vmx file and add the following lines: Once added, you sounded should be working. FYI, this works for Server 2019 as well. Given the above, should really upgrade to 6.5 … Read more
Early this morning, I had to reboot my vCenter, as there were some issues with it where I had to reboot it. However, after it came back up it was no longer reachable. Rebooted a second time and still got the same results. So I connected to the host client, and disconnected the network. Big … Read more
So in my last post, I was struggling with updating VCSA 6.0 to VCSA 6.5U3. I opened up an SR, and the initial call had me to restore the Machine SSL to use the VMCA. Feeling confident that would work, the tech ended the call mid way through the update. Two days later, after examining … Read more
So I’ve been fighting an VCSA upgrade from 6.0U3 to 6.5U3. Everything goes smoothly until trying to start vCenter services. After about 5 minutes, I get an error “An error occurred while starting service ‘vpxd’” Digging into the logs I keep seeing the following errors: I’ve reset all certs, regenerated new ones, and I still … Read more
