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HOW TO MIGRATE A VMWARE VIRTUAL MACHINE TO AWS At the AWS Server Migration Service page click on Get started. Click on the Download OVA button and then deploy the downloaded OVA into your vSphere environment. Once the Server Migration Service Connector has been deployed, open a browser window and go to the IP address of the just deployed OVA. Then click on Get started now. CLONE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT DRIVE TO ANOTHER Plug in the original USB flash drive and get that device address as well (/sdc). Use the dd command to perform a block copy from the original USB flash drive to the new USB flash drive. Type the following command: That’s it, the imaging took about 10-15 minutes and the new USB drive was ready to be used as an ESXi boot drive. HOW-TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR FAILED: UNABLE TO FIND Finally, type EXIT in the command prompt and restart the virtual machine.; After the virtual machine rebooted, Windows Server loaded without issue and I was able to complete the migration by re-IPing the VM and updating DNS records. FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.0 TO 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5!. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. The first stage is deploying a new vCenter Server FIX VMWARE VCSA /STORAGE/LOG FILESYSTEM OUT OF DISK SPACE How to fix VCSA /storage/log filesystem out of disk space. Luckily the fix is rather easy, thanks to a blog post by @lamw that I found while looking for a solution, he mentions in VCSA 6.x you can now expand VMDK’s on the fly since the VCSA takes advantage of LVM.. So open the vSphere client (web or thick) and expand the VMDK (see below table for which VMDK to expand) EASY UPGRADE ESXI 6.5 VIA COMMAND LINE VMware has recently released ESXi 6.5 and last week I posted on how to Install VCSA 6.5 as well as how to upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5, now we’re going to look at how to easily and quickly perform an ESXi 6.5 upgrade via command line.. How to Upgrade ESXi 6.6 via command line using VMware Online Depot. Using the VMware Online Depot is a simple way to upgrade if you only have 1 or 2 ESXi hosts to HOW TO INSTALL LET'S ENCRYPT SSL ON MICROSOFT IIS WEB SERVER If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. HOW TO CREATE A BOOTABLE VMWARE ESXI INSTALLER USB FLASH Creating a bootable ESXi flash drive. Download VMware ESXi ISO image from VMware. Connect your flash drive to your computer. Open Rufus and in the Device drop down select your USB flash drive. Click the icon that looks like a CD to select the ESXi HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS With the release of vSphere 6.5, the VCSA has had a built-in and convenient way easily backup the configuration, inventory and even historical data right from the VAMI and directly into a TAR bundle. VMware has also made restoring the VCSA from a backup just as easy as well. Below are quick and dirty steps to backing up and restoring yourVMware VCSA!
HOW TO MIGRATE A VMWARE VIRTUAL MACHINE TO AWS At the AWS Server Migration Service page click on Get started. Click on the Download OVA button and then deploy the downloaded OVA into your vSphere environment. Once the Server Migration Service Connector has been deployed, open a browser window and go to the IP address of the just deployed OVA. Then click on Get started now. CLONE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT DRIVE TO ANOTHER Plug in the original USB flash drive and get that device address as well (/sdc). Use the dd command to perform a block copy from the original USB flash drive to the new USB flash drive. Type the following command: That’s it, the imaging took about 10-15 minutes and the new USB drive was ready to be used as an ESXi boot drive. HOW-TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR FAILED: UNABLE TO FIND Finally, type EXIT in the command prompt and restart the virtual machine.; After the virtual machine rebooted, Windows Server loaded without issue and I was able to complete the migration by re-IPing the VM and updating DNS records. FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS With the release of vSphere 6.5, the VCSA has had a built-in and convenient way easily backup the configuration, inventory and even historical data right from the VAMI and directly into a TAR bundle. VMware has also made restoring the VCSA from a backup just as easy as well. Below are quick and dirty steps to backing up and restoring yourVMware VCSA!
HOW TO CREATE A BOOTABLE VMWARE ESXI INSTALLER USB FLASH Creating a bootable ESXi flash drive. Download VMware ESXi ISO image from VMware. Connect your flash drive to your computer. Open Rufus and in the Device drop down select your USB flash drive. Click the icon that looks like a CD to select the ESXi SYNOLOGY 10GBE UPGRADE FOR THE HOME LAB One big feature I was looking forward to taking advantage of when I replaced my old Synology DS1815+ with a new Synology DS1621+, was the PCIe expansion slot and support for 10GbE cards. I could now setup a 10GbE network between the NAS, the home lab Dell R720, and my main PC.. My goal was to create a small 10GbE network without spending aton of money.
HOW TO UPDATE VMWARE ESXI 6.5 TO 6.5 UPDATE 1 With the release of VMware vCenter 6.5 Update 1 also comes VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 1 and just like vCenter there are a number of changes, updates, and fixes for ESXi as well in 6.5 Update 1 – you can see the release notes here.. Yesterday I made a post on how to upgrade VMware VCSA 6.5 to 6.5 Update 1.Below I’ll show you three ways to upgrade your ESXi hosts to 6.5 Update 1. UPDATE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Next accept the EULA, join the CEIP (or not) and finally check “I have backed up vCenter Server and its associated databases.” and click on Finish.; After a few minutes, depending on the size of your environment, the VCSA 6.7 Update 1 update will complete. Simply clickon Close.
HOW TO ENABLE SSH AUTO LOGIN ON UBIQUITI EDGEROUTER X SSH key authentication not only provides a more convenient way to logging into your EdgeRouter X, but is also more secure because the private key replaces the need of a password and thus is typically more difficult to brute force.. The below steps will show how to generate a SSH key, add it to the router, and then disable password authentication so that only the key-pair can be used to login. EASY UPGRADE ESXI 6.5 VIA COMMAND LINE VMware has recently released ESXi 6.5 and last week I posted on how to Install VCSA 6.5 as well as how to upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5, now we’re going to look at how to easily and quickly perform an ESXi 6.5 upgrade via command line.. How to Upgrade ESXi 6.6 via command line using VMware Online Depot. Using the VMware Online Depot is a simple way to upgrade if you only have 1 or 2 ESXi hosts to HOW TO UPDATE VMWARE ESXI 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 VMware vCenter 6.7 U1 has recently been released. Last week I posted how to upgrade VCSA 6.7 to 6.7 Update 1, this post will walk you though upgrading VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 Update 1!. When doing a VCSA version upgrade the upgrade process is much different, than going from say 6.7 to 6.7 U1. When going from 6.5 to 6.7 the upgrade is actually broken up into two USING POWERSHELL TO UNBLOCK MULTIPLE FILES Checking the box manually works fine when it’s just a file or two, but in the case of something larger like vCheck where there are dozens of files it can become a pain. Luckily there is a quick and easy way to fix this using PowerShell of course! SECURE YOUR SYNOLOGY NAS, INSTALL A SSL CERTIFICATE I’ve been using the default setup on my Synology DS412+ with HTTPS enabled for a while now but knew it really wasn’t all that secure without a proper SSL certificate and creating a self-signed certificated isn’t all the much better and can be easily forged. I decided it was about time I used a “real” certificate to bettersecure the NAS.
UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.0 TO 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5!. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. The first stage is deploying a new vCenter Server SYNOLOGY 10GBE UPGRADE FOR THE HOME LAB One big feature I was looking forward to taking advantage of when I replaced my old Synology DS1815+ with a new Synology DS1621+, was the PCIe expansion slot and support for 10GbE cards. I could now setup a 10GbE network between the NAS, the home lab Dell R720, and my main PC.. My goal was to create a small 10GbE network without spending aton of money.
EASY UPGRADE ESXI 6.5 VIA COMMAND LINE VMware has recently released ESXi 6.5 and last week I posted on how to Install VCSA 6.5 as well as how to upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5, now we’re going to look at how to easily and quickly perform an ESXi 6.5 upgrade via command line.. How to Upgrade ESXi 6.6 via command line using VMware Online Depot. Using the VMware Online Depot is a simple way to upgrade if you only have 1 or 2 ESXi hosts to FIX VMWARE VCSA /STORAGE/LOG FILESYSTEM OUT OF DISK SPACE How to fix VCSA /storage/log filesystem out of disk space. Luckily the fix is rather easy, thanks to a blog post by @lamw that I found while looking for a solution, he mentions in VCSA 6.x you can now expand VMDK’s on the fly since the VCSA takes advantage of LVM.. So open the vSphere client (web or thick) and expand the VMDK (see below table for which VMDK to expand) HOW TO INSTALL LET'S ENCRYPT SSL ON MICROSOFT IIS WEB SERVER If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. UPDATE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select 6.7.0.20000 and click on “ Stage and Install “. Next accept the EULA, join the CEIP (or not) and finally check “ I have backed up vCenter Server and its associated databases .” and click on Finish. After a few minutes, depending on the size of your HOW-TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR FAILED: UNABLE TO FIND Earlier this month I posted how on how to fix the weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key issue in VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.2 appliance. Another issue I’ve ran into is how to unlock vRealize Orchestrator default account. It seems you can lock the account after to many failed attempts but once locked the account does not seem to unlock or at least for me after waiting more than a couple HOW TO REPLACE A FAILED HARD DRIVE IN A SYNOLOGY NAS How to replace a failed hard drive in your Synology NAS. The first step is to identity the hard drive this is failing. Open the Synology Storage Manger and click on HDD/SSD on the left. Here you can see that Drive 5 was failing on my Synology NAS: Now go to your Synology NAS and remove the failing drive and replace it with a new hard drive. FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS Open Computer Management by pressing Windows Key + R and typing in compmgmt.msc, then go to Disk Management. Right click on the System Reserved partition and select Properties. Then click on the Shadow Copies tab and ensure Shadow Copies are disabled for each volume and then close the Properties window. Again, right click on the SystemReserved
UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.0 TO 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5!. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. The first stage is deploying a new vCenter Server SYNOLOGY 10GBE UPGRADE FOR THE HOME LAB One big feature I was looking forward to taking advantage of when I replaced my old Synology DS1815+ with a new Synology DS1621+, was the PCIe expansion slot and support for 10GbE cards. I could now setup a 10GbE network between the NAS, the home lab Dell R720, and my main PC.. My goal was to create a small 10GbE network without spending aton of money.
EASY UPGRADE ESXI 6.5 VIA COMMAND LINE VMware has recently released ESXi 6.5 and last week I posted on how to Install VCSA 6.5 as well as how to upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5, now we’re going to look at how to easily and quickly perform an ESXi 6.5 upgrade via command line.. How to Upgrade ESXi 6.6 via command line using VMware Online Depot. Using the VMware Online Depot is a simple way to upgrade if you only have 1 or 2 ESXi hosts to FIX VMWARE VCSA /STORAGE/LOG FILESYSTEM OUT OF DISK SPACE How to fix VCSA /storage/log filesystem out of disk space. Luckily the fix is rather easy, thanks to a blog post by @lamw that I found while looking for a solution, he mentions in VCSA 6.x you can now expand VMDK’s on the fly since the VCSA takes advantage of LVM.. So open the vSphere client (web or thick) and expand the VMDK (see below table for which VMDK to expand) HOW TO INSTALL LET'S ENCRYPT SSL ON MICROSOFT IIS WEB SERVER If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. UPDATE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select 6.7.0.20000 and click on “ Stage and Install “. Next accept the EULA, join the CEIP (or not) and finally check “ I have backed up vCenter Server and its associated databases .” and click on Finish. After a few minutes, depending on the size of your HOW-TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR FAILED: UNABLE TO FIND Earlier this month I posted how on how to fix the weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key issue in VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.2 appliance. Another issue I’ve ran into is how to unlock vRealize Orchestrator default account. It seems you can lock the account after to many failed attempts but once locked the account does not seem to unlock or at least for me after waiting more than a couple HOW TO REPLACE A FAILED HARD DRIVE IN A SYNOLOGY NAS How to replace a failed hard drive in your Synology NAS. The first step is to identity the hard drive this is failing. Open the Synology Storage Manger and click on HDD/SSD on the left. Here you can see that Drive 5 was failing on my Synology NAS: Now go to your Synology NAS and remove the failing drive and replace it with a new hard drive. FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS Open Computer Management by pressing Windows Key + R and typing in compmgmt.msc, then go to Disk Management. Right click on the System Reserved partition and select Properties. Then click on the Shadow Copies tab and ensure Shadow Copies are disabled for each volume and then close the Properties window. Again, right click on the SystemReserved
SYNOLOGY 10GBE UPGRADE FOR THE HOME LAB One big feature I was looking forward to taking advantage of when I replaced my old Synology DS1815+ with a new Synology DS1621+, was the PCIe expansion slot and support for 10GbE cards. I could now setup a 10GbE network between the NAS, the home lab Dell R720, and my main PC.. My goal was to create a small 10GbE network without spending aton of money.
HOW TO CREATE A BOOTABLE VMWARE ESXI INSTALLER USB FLASH VMware has released ESXi 6.0 back in March and I recently posted a guide on how to upgrade your vCenter Server Appliance from 5.x to 6.0 – Now we’re going to look at two ways to upgrade a VMware ESXi 5.x host to ESXi 6.0 via command line.. The first method will show you how to have each ESXi host download the update directly from VMware and then upgrade itself while the second method HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS Open Computer Management by pressing Windows Key + R and typing in compmgmt.msc, then go to Disk Management. Right click on the System Reserved partition and select Properties. Then click on the Shadow Copies tab and ensure Shadow Copies are disabled for each volume and then close the Properties window. Again, right click on the SystemReserved
HOW TO UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 7.0 Stage 2 – Upgrade vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 to 7.0, copying VMware vCenter data. Click on Next through the VCSA Stage 2 Introduction. The installer will then automatically run a Pre-Upgrade check on your existing VCSA. Make sure to review those results, then click on Next. Note: Be sure that DRS is disabled if you have morethan one host.
HOW TO ENABLE SSH AUTO LOGIN ON UBIQUITI EDGEROUTER X SSH key authentication not only provides a more convenient way to logging into your EdgeRouter X, but is also more secure because the private key replaces the need of a password and thus is typically more difficult to brute force.. The below steps will show how to generate a SSH key, add it to the router, and then disable password authentication so that only the key-pair can be used to login. HOW TO UPDATE VMWARE ESXI 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select the newly created baseline that you created from above and click on Attach. Next click on the Overview link in VUM and then click on Check Compliance. Once the compliance scan finishes, it’s time to actually do the ESXi 6.7 U1 upgrade. From the Updates tab, click on Host Updates, select the baseline and then click on Remediate. HOW TO UPGRADE SYNOLOGY DS1815+ TO 16GB RAM Just last week I replaced my Synology DS412+ to with a Synology DS1815+, which has twice the drive bays with the addition of supporting two expansion units, a much more powerful CPU, and 2GB RAM out of the box.. I’ve seen some people mention with very mixed results that both the Synology DS1515+ and Synology DS1815+ can be upgraded to 16GB of RAM, the biggest issue seems to be UPDATE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select 6.7.0.20000 and click on “ Stage and Install “. Next accept the EULA, join the CEIP (or not) and finally check “ I have backed up vCenter Server and its associated databases .” and click on Finish. After a few minutes, depending on the size of your VMWARE P2V PERMISSION TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION WAS DENIED Workaround for Permission to perform this operation was denied. Log into the server you’re trying to convert to a virtual machine. Open Local Security Policy (open run dialog and type secpol.msc). Go to: Local Policies > Security Options. Change “ User Access Control: Run all Administrators in Admin Approval Mode ” from Enabled toDisabled.
SECURE YOUR SYNOLOGY NAS, INSTALL A SSL CERTIFICATE I’ve been using the default setup on my Synology DS412+ with HTTPS enabled for a while now but knew it really wasn’t all that secure without a proper SSL certificate and creating a self-signed certificated isn’t all the much better and can be easily forged. I decided it was about time I used a “real” certificate to bettersecure the NAS.
SYNOLOGY - MIKE TABOR One big feature I was looking forward to taking advantage of when I replaced my old Synology DS1815+ with a new Synology DS1621+, was the PCIe expansion slot and support for 10GbE cards. I could now setup a 10GbE network between the NAS, the home lab Dell R720, and my main PC.. My goal was to create a small 10GbE network without spending aton of money.
UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.0 TO 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5!. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. The first stage is deploying a new vCenter Server FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
HOW TO INSTALL LET'S ENCRYPT SSL ON MICROSOFT IIS WEB SERVER If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. CLONE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT DRIVE TO ANOTHER Plug in the original USB flash drive and get that device address as well (/sdc). Use the dd command to perform a block copy from the original USB flash drive to the new USB flash drive. Type the following command: That’s it, the imaging took about 10-15 minutes and the new USB drive was ready to be used as an ESXi boot drive. UPDATE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select 6.7.0.20000 and click on “ Stage and Install “. Next accept the EULA, join the CEIP (or not) and finally check “ I have backed up vCenter Server and its associated databases .” and click on Finish. After a few minutes, depending on the size of your FIX VMWARE VCSA /STORAGE/LOG FILESYSTEM OUT OF DISK SPACE How to fix VCSA /storage/log filesystem out of disk space. Luckily the fix is rather easy, thanks to a blog post by @lamw that I found while looking for a solution, he mentions in VCSA 6.x you can now expand VMDK’s on the fly since the VCSA takes advantage of LVM.. So open the vSphere client (web or thick) and expand the VMDK (see below table for which VMDK to expand) HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS Open Computer Management by pressing Windows Key + R and typing in compmgmt.msc, then go to Disk Management. Right click on the System Reserved partition and select Properties. Then click on the Shadow Copies tab and ensure Shadow Copies are disabled for each volume and then close the Properties window. Again, right click on the SystemReserved
HOW TO EASILY ADD AN ESXI SSH LOGIN MESSAGE VMware just published KB 2136854 regarding a new bug found in ESXi 6.0 that causes virtual machine backups, which use Changed Block Tracking (CBT), to be inconsistent. VMware says the cause of the issue is this: This issue occurs due to an issue with CBT in the disklib area, this causes the change tracking information of I/Os that occur during snapshot consolidation to be lost. VMWARE P2V PERMISSION TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION WAS DENIED Workaround for Permission to perform this operation was denied. Log into the server you’re trying to convert to a virtual machine. Open Local Security Policy (open run dialog and type secpol.msc). Go to: Local Policies > Security Options. Change “ User Access Control: Run all Administrators in Admin Approval Mode ” from Enabled toDisabled.
SYNOLOGY - MIKE TABOR One big feature I was looking forward to taking advantage of when I replaced my old Synology DS1815+ with a new Synology DS1621+, was the PCIe expansion slot and support for 10GbE cards. I could now setup a 10GbE network between the NAS, the home lab Dell R720, and my main PC.. My goal was to create a small 10GbE network without spending aton of money.
UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.0 TO 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5!. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. The first stage is deploying a new vCenter Server FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
HOW TO INSTALL LET'S ENCRYPT SSL ON MICROSOFT IIS WEB SERVER If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. CLONE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT DRIVE TO ANOTHER Plug in the original USB flash drive and get that device address as well (/sdc). Use the dd command to perform a block copy from the original USB flash drive to the new USB flash drive. Type the following command: That’s it, the imaging took about 10-15 minutes and the new USB drive was ready to be used as an ESXi boot drive. UPDATE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select 6.7.0.20000 and click on “ Stage and Install “. Next accept the EULA, join the CEIP (or not) and finally check “ I have backed up vCenter Server and its associated databases .” and click on Finish. After a few minutes, depending on the size of your FIX VMWARE VCSA /STORAGE/LOG FILESYSTEM OUT OF DISK SPACE How to fix VCSA /storage/log filesystem out of disk space. Luckily the fix is rather easy, thanks to a blog post by @lamw that I found while looking for a solution, he mentions in VCSA 6.x you can now expand VMDK’s on the fly since the VCSA takes advantage of LVM.. So open the vSphere client (web or thick) and expand the VMDK (see below table for which VMDK to expand) HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS Open Computer Management by pressing Windows Key + R and typing in compmgmt.msc, then go to Disk Management. Right click on the System Reserved partition and select Properties. Then click on the Shadow Copies tab and ensure Shadow Copies are disabled for each volume and then close the Properties window. Again, right click on the SystemReserved
HOW TO EASILY ADD AN ESXI SSH LOGIN MESSAGE VMware just published KB 2136854 regarding a new bug found in ESXi 6.0 that causes virtual machine backups, which use Changed Block Tracking (CBT), to be inconsistent. VMware says the cause of the issue is this: This issue occurs due to an issue with CBT in the disklib area, this causes the change tracking information of I/Os that occur during snapshot consolidation to be lost. VMWARE P2V PERMISSION TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION WAS DENIED Workaround for Permission to perform this operation was denied. Log into the server you’re trying to convert to a virtual machine. Open Local Security Policy (open run dialog and type secpol.msc). Go to: Local Policies > Security Options. Change “ User Access Control: Run all Administrators in Admin Approval Mode ” from Enabled toDisabled.
EASY UPGRADE ESXI 6.5 VIA COMMAND LINE VMware has recently released ESXi 6.5 and last week I posted on how to Install VCSA 6.5 as well as how to upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5, now we’re going to look at how to easily and quickly perform an ESXi 6.5 upgrade via command line.. How to Upgrade ESXi 6.6 via command line using VMware Online Depot. Using the VMware Online Depot is a simple way to upgrade if you only have 1 or 2 ESXi hosts to RESTORE A VM USING THE {VM}-FLAT.VMDK FILE Ok, now on to how to restore a VM with a missing .VMDK file. How to Recover a VM using a vm-flat.vmdk file. I created a new VM called Recovery with the same specs as my Win2012 server (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40GB HHD).; Enable SSH on the host and logged in via PuTTy (or WinSCP) and verified the contents of Win2012 folder: HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS Open Computer Management by pressing Windows Key + R and typing in compmgmt.msc, then go to Disk Management. Right click on the System Reserved partition and select Properties. Then click on the Shadow Copies tab and ensure Shadow Copies are disabled for each volume and then close the Properties window. Again, right click on the SystemReserved
CREATE A CUSTOM VPC WITH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SUBNETS ON AWS Create a custom VPC in AWS. First, log into your AWS Console and click on VPC under Network & Content Delivery “. Click on “ Create VPC “. Enter a Name and CIDR block address, for this VPC I’ll be using 10.0.0.0/16. When you create a VPC a Route Table, Network ACL, and Security Group are automatically created. UPDATE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Prior to VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.x, upgrading or patching vCSA was as simple as a few button clicks in the appliance UI. Gone are those days, as VMware has replaced the appliance UI with a DCUI and the web based install wizard during setup.. The good news is, upgrading or patching the vCSA 6.x is still pretty simple via thecommand line!
VMWARE P2V PERMISSION TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION WAS DENIED Workaround for Permission to perform this operation was denied. Log into the server you’re trying to convert to a virtual machine. Open Local Security Policy (open run dialog and type secpol.msc). Go to: Local Policies > Security Options. Change “ User Access Control: Run all Administrators in Admin Approval Mode ” from Enabled toDisabled.
HOW TO EASILY ADD AN ESXI SSH LOGIN MESSAGE VMware just published KB 2136854 regarding a new bug found in ESXi 6.0 that causes virtual machine backups, which use Changed Block Tracking (CBT), to be inconsistent. VMware says the cause of the issue is this: This issue occurs due to an issue with CBT in the disklib area, this causes the change tracking information of I/Os that occur during snapshot consolidation to be lost. HOW TO CONVERT VMDK TO OVF FILE FORMAT VMware. Here is a quick and easy way to convert a VMDK to OVF file format using the OVF Tool from VMware. First download and install the VMware OVF Tool for your operating system. Open a command prompt as Administrator and navigate to the OVF Tool install directory: cd C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool. Next, type in the followingcommand
UPGRADE ESXI HOST TO ESXI 5.5 USING VMWARE UPDATE MANAGER Upgrade ESXi host to 5.5 using VMware Update Manager (VUM) Open the vSphere client and click on Update Manager. First we’ll upload the ISO image. Click on the “ ESXi Images ” tab. Click on the “ Import ESXi Image ” link. Click on “ Browse ” and select the path where the ESXi 5.5 ISO image is located on your machine ornetwork
HOW TO SHADOW A VMWARE HORIZON VIEW DESKTOP NOTE: The pcoip.adm template file is located on the Horizon View Connection Server: “install_directory\VMware\VMware View\Server\extras\GroupPolicyFiles” Enable View Desktop Shadowing – vSphere 4. If you’re still running VMware vSphere 4, you’ll instead need to change a registry setting on the master image and/or the individual desktops that you wish to shadow: VMWARE P2V PERMISSION TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION WAS DENIED VMware vCenter 6.7 U1 has recently been released. Last week I posted how to upgrade VCSA 6.7 to 6.7 Update 1, this post will walk you though upgrading VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 Update 1!. When doing a VCSA version upgrade the upgrade process is much different, than going from say 6.7 to 6.7 U1. When going from 6.5 to 6.7 the upgrade is actually broken up into two FIX VMWARE VCSA /STORAGE/LOG FILESYSTEM OUT OF DISK SPACE How to fix VCSA /storage/log filesystem out of disk space. Luckily the fix is rather easy, thanks to a blog post by @lamw that I found while looking for a solution, he mentions in VCSA 6.x you can now expand VMDK’s on the fly since the VCSA takes advantage of LVM.. So open the vSphere client (web or thick) and expand the VMDK (see below table for which VMDK to expand) UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.0 TO 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5!. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. The first stage is deploying a new vCenter Server DEFRAG TO IMPROVE SYNOLOGY BTRFS PERFORMANCE How to defrag Synology NAS using BTRFS. Log into your Synology DSM. Open Storage Manager (found under the “Start Menu”) then click on Volume > Manage. Next select Start file system defragmentation and click on Next. Now click on Apply. Notice: File system defragmentation is available on specific models only. File system defragmentation can HOW TO INSTALL LET'S ENCRYPT SSL ON MICROSOFT IIS WEB SERVER If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. RESTORE A VM USING THE {VM}-FLAT.VMDK FILE Ok, now on to how to restore a VM with a missing .VMDK file. How to Recover a VM using a vm-flat.vmdk file. I created a new VM called Recovery with the same specs as my Win2012 server (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40GB HHD).; Enable SSH on the host and logged in via PuTTy (or WinSCP) and verified the contents of Win2012 folder: HOW TO MIGRATE A VMWARE VIRTUAL MACHINE TO AWS A common request I’ve seen among Synology NAS owners, is the ability to run virtual machines directly from their NAS. Recently Synology released a beta version of their new Virtual Machine Manager package that allows users to do exactly that.. Below I’ll detail how to install, configure, and create a Windows 10 virtual machine on mySynology DS1815+.
FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
HOW-TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR FAILED: UNABLE TO FIND Earlier this month I posted how on how to fix the weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key issue in VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.2 appliance. Another issue I’ve ran into is how to unlock vRealize Orchestrator default account. It seems you can lock the account after to many failed attempts but once locked the account does not seem to unlock or at least for me after waiting more than a couple HOW TO CREATE A VIRTUAL MACHINE ON A SYNOLOGY NAS A common request I’ve seen among Synology NAS owners, is the ability to run virtual machines directly from their NAS. Recently Synology released a beta version of their new Virtual Machine Manager package that allows users to do exactly that.. Below I’ll detail how to install, configure, and create a Windows 10 virtual machine on mySynology DS1815+.
VMWARE P2V PERMISSION TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION WAS DENIED VMware vCenter 6.7 U1 has recently been released. Last week I posted how to upgrade VCSA 6.7 to 6.7 Update 1, this post will walk you though upgrading VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 Update 1!. When doing a VCSA version upgrade the upgrade process is much different, than going from say 6.7 to 6.7 U1. When going from 6.5 to 6.7 the upgrade is actually broken up into two FIX VMWARE VCSA /STORAGE/LOG FILESYSTEM OUT OF DISK SPACE How to fix VCSA /storage/log filesystem out of disk space. Luckily the fix is rather easy, thanks to a blog post by @lamw that I found while looking for a solution, he mentions in VCSA 6.x you can now expand VMDK’s on the fly since the VCSA takes advantage of LVM.. So open the vSphere client (web or thick) and expand the VMDK (see below table for which VMDK to expand) UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.0 TO 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5!. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. The first stage is deploying a new vCenter Server DEFRAG TO IMPROVE SYNOLOGY BTRFS PERFORMANCE How to defrag Synology NAS using BTRFS. Log into your Synology DSM. Open Storage Manager (found under the “Start Menu”) then click on Volume > Manage. Next select Start file system defragmentation and click on Next. Now click on Apply. Notice: File system defragmentation is available on specific models only. File system defragmentation can HOW TO INSTALL LET'S ENCRYPT SSL ON MICROSOFT IIS WEB SERVER If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. RESTORE A VM USING THE {VM}-FLAT.VMDK FILE Ok, now on to how to restore a VM with a missing .VMDK file. How to Recover a VM using a vm-flat.vmdk file. I created a new VM called Recovery with the same specs as my Win2012 server (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40GB HHD).; Enable SSH on the host and logged in via PuTTy (or WinSCP) and verified the contents of Win2012 folder: HOW TO MIGRATE A VMWARE VIRTUAL MACHINE TO AWS A common request I’ve seen among Synology NAS owners, is the ability to run virtual machines directly from their NAS. Recently Synology released a beta version of their new Virtual Machine Manager package that allows users to do exactly that.. Below I’ll detail how to install, configure, and create a Windows 10 virtual machine on mySynology DS1815+.
FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
HOW-TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR FAILED: UNABLE TO FIND Earlier this month I posted how on how to fix the weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key issue in VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.2 appliance. Another issue I’ve ran into is how to unlock vRealize Orchestrator default account. It seems you can lock the account after to many failed attempts but once locked the account does not seem to unlock or at least for me after waiting more than a couple HOW TO CREATE A VIRTUAL MACHINE ON A SYNOLOGY NAS A common request I’ve seen among Synology NAS owners, is the ability to run virtual machines directly from their NAS. Recently Synology released a beta version of their new Virtual Machine Manager package that allows users to do exactly that.. Below I’ll detail how to install, configure, and create a Windows 10 virtual machine on mySynology DS1815+.
EASY UPGRADE ESXI 6.5 VIA COMMAND LINE VMware has recently released ESXi 6.5 and last week I posted on how to Install VCSA 6.5 as well as how to upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5, now we’re going to look at how to easily and quickly perform an ESXi 6.5 upgrade via command line.. How to Upgrade ESXi 6.6 via command line using VMware Online Depot. Using the VMware Online Depot is a simple way to upgrade if you only have 1 or 2 ESXi hosts to CREATE A CUSTOM VPC WITH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SUBNETS ON AWS Create a custom VPC in AWS. First, log into your AWS Console and click on VPC under Network & Content Delivery “. Click on “ Create VPC “. Enter a Name and CIDR block address, for this VPC I’ll be using 10.0.0.0/16. When you create a VPC a Route Table, Network ACL, and Security Group are automatically created. HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS VMware vCenter Server and ESXi 5.5 Update 2 has just been released today with a number of fixes and additional features such as vCenter Server database support for Oracle 12c, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 in vCenter Server and support for ESXi hosts with 6TB of RAM in the ESXi 5.5 update 2 release!. Read More “VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 2 released” UPGRADE ESXI HOST TO ESXI 5.5 USING VMWARE UPDATE MANAGER Upgrade ESXi host to 5.5 using VMware Update Manager (VUM) Open the vSphere client and click on Update Manager. First we’ll upload the ISO image. Click on the “ ESXi Images ” tab. Click on the “ Import ESXi Image ” link. Click on “ Browse ” and select the path where the ESXi 5.5 ISO image is located on your machine ornetwork
UPDATE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select 6.7.0.20000 and click on “ Stage and Install “. Next accept the EULA, join the CEIP (or not) and finally check “ I have backed up vCenter Server and its associated databases .” and click on Finish. After a few minutes, depending on the size of your HOW-TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR FAILED: UNABLE TO FIND Earlier this month I posted how on how to fix the weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key issue in VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.2 appliance. Another issue I’ve ran into is how to unlock vRealize Orchestrator default account. It seems you can lock the account after to many failed attempts but once locked the account does not seem to unlock or at least for me after waiting more than a couple HOW TO UPDATE VMWARE ESXI 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select the newly created baseline that you created from above and click on Attach. Next click on the Overview link in VUM and then click on Check Compliance. Once the compliance scan finishes, it’s time to actually do the ESXi 6.7 U1 upgrade. From the Updates tab, click on Host Updates, select the baseline and then click on Remediate. HOW TO UPGRADE SYNOLOGY DS1815+ TO 16GB RAM Just last week I replaced my Synology DS412+ to with a Synology DS1815+, which has twice the drive bays with the addition of supporting two expansion units, a much more powerful CPU, and 2GB RAM out of the box.. I’ve seen some people mention with very mixed results that both the Synology DS1515+ and Synology DS1815+ can be upgraded to 16GB of RAM, the biggest issue seems to be HOW TO REPLACE A FAILED HARD DRIVE IN A SYNOLOGY NAS How to replace a failed hard drive in your Synology NAS. The first step is to identity the hard drive this is failing. Open the Synology Storage Manger and click on HDD/SSD on the left. Here you can see that Drive 5 was failing on my Synology NAS: Now go to your Synology NAS and remove the failing drive and replace it with a new hard drive. CLONE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT DRIVE TO ANOTHER Plug in the original USB flash drive and get that device address as well (/sdc). Use the dd command to perform a block copy from the original USB flash drive to the new USB flash drive. Type the following command: That’s it, the imaging took about 10-15 minutes and the new USB drive was ready to be used as an ESXi boot drive. VMWARE P2V PERMISSION TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION WAS DENIED VMware vCenter 6.7 U1 has recently been released. Last week I posted how to upgrade VCSA 6.7 to 6.7 Update 1, this post will walk you though upgrading VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 Update 1!. When doing a VCSA version upgrade the upgrade process is much different, than going from say 6.7 to 6.7 U1. When going from 6.5 to 6.7 the upgrade is actually broken up into two FIX VMWARE VCSA /STORAGE/LOG FILESYSTEM OUT OF DISK SPACE How to fix VCSA /storage/log filesystem out of disk space. Luckily the fix is rather easy, thanks to a blog post by @lamw that I found while looking for a solution, he mentions in VCSA 6.x you can now expand VMDK’s on the fly since the VCSA takes advantage of LVM.. So open the vSphere client (web or thick) and expand the VMDK (see below table for which VMDK to expand) UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.0 TO 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5!. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. The first stage is deploying a new vCenter Server DEFRAG TO IMPROVE SYNOLOGY BTRFS PERFORMANCE How to defrag Synology NAS using BTRFS. Log into your Synology DSM. Open Storage Manager (found under the “Start Menu”) then click on Volume > Manage. Next select Start file system defragmentation and click on Next. Now click on Apply. Notice: File system defragmentation is available on specific models only. File system defragmentation can HOW TO INSTALL LET'S ENCRYPT SSL ON MICROSOFT IIS WEB SERVER If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. RESTORE A VM USING THE {VM}-FLAT.VMDK FILE Ok, now on to how to restore a VM with a missing .VMDK file. How to Recover a VM using a vm-flat.vmdk file. I created a new VM called Recovery with the same specs as my Win2012 server (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40GB HHD).; Enable SSH on the host and logged in via PuTTy (or WinSCP) and verified the contents of Win2012 folder: EASY UPGRADE ESXI 6.5 VIA COMMAND LINE VMware has recently released ESXi 6.5 and last week I posted on how to Install VCSA 6.5 as well as how to upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5, now we’re going to look at how to easily and quickly perform an ESXi 6.5 upgrade via command line.. How to Upgrade ESXi 6.6 via command line using VMware Online Depot. Using the VMware Online Depot is a simple way to upgrade if you only have 1 or 2 ESXi hosts to HOW TO MIGRATE A VMWARE VIRTUAL MACHINE TO AWS A common request I’ve seen among Synology NAS owners, is the ability to run virtual machines directly from their NAS. Recently Synology released a beta version of their new Virtual Machine Manager package that allows users to do exactly that.. Below I’ll detail how to install, configure, and create a Windows 10 virtual machine on mySynology DS1815+.
FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
HOW TO CREATE A VIRTUAL MACHINE ON A SYNOLOGY NAS A common request I’ve seen among Synology NAS owners, is the ability to run virtual machines directly from their NAS. Recently Synology released a beta version of their new Virtual Machine Manager package that allows users to do exactly that.. Below I’ll detail how to install, configure, and create a Windows 10 virtual machine on mySynology DS1815+.
VMWARE P2V PERMISSION TO PERFORM THIS OPERATION WAS DENIED VMware vCenter 6.7 U1 has recently been released. Last week I posted how to upgrade VCSA 6.7 to 6.7 Update 1, this post will walk you though upgrading VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 to VCSA 6.7 Update 1!. When doing a VCSA version upgrade the upgrade process is much different, than going from say 6.7 to 6.7 U1. When going from 6.5 to 6.7 the upgrade is actually broken up into two FIX VMWARE VCSA /STORAGE/LOG FILESYSTEM OUT OF DISK SPACE How to fix VCSA /storage/log filesystem out of disk space. Luckily the fix is rather easy, thanks to a blog post by @lamw that I found while looking for a solution, he mentions in VCSA 6.x you can now expand VMDK’s on the fly since the VCSA takes advantage of LVM.. So open the vSphere client (web or thick) and expand the VMDK (see below table for which VMDK to expand) UPGRADE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.0 TO 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.5 has been released as general available and earlier this week I posted about Installing VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as a new install, this post will walk through upgrading an existing vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 to 6.5!. Similar to a fresh VCSA 6.5 install, the VCSA 6.5 upgrade is also broken up into two stages. The first stage is deploying a new vCenter Server DEFRAG TO IMPROVE SYNOLOGY BTRFS PERFORMANCE How to defrag Synology NAS using BTRFS. Log into your Synology DSM. Open Storage Manager (found under the “Start Menu”) then click on Volume > Manage. Next select Start file system defragmentation and click on Next. Now click on Apply. Notice: File system defragmentation is available on specific models only. File system defragmentation can HOW TO INSTALL LET'S ENCRYPT SSL ON MICROSOFT IIS WEB SERVER If you’ve ever wondered how to install a Let’s Encrypt certificate on a Microsoft IIS server than this post is just for you. Let’s Encrypt has always been pretty easy to setup on a Linux box and not so much on the Windows side. RESTORE A VM USING THE {VM}-FLAT.VMDK FILE Ok, now on to how to restore a VM with a missing .VMDK file. How to Recover a VM using a vm-flat.vmdk file. I created a new VM called Recovery with the same specs as my Win2012 server (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40GB HHD).; Enable SSH on the host and logged in via PuTTy (or WinSCP) and verified the contents of Win2012 folder: EASY UPGRADE ESXI 6.5 VIA COMMAND LINE VMware has recently released ESXi 6.5 and last week I posted on how to Install VCSA 6.5 as well as how to upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5, now we’re going to look at how to easily and quickly perform an ESXi 6.5 upgrade via command line.. How to Upgrade ESXi 6.6 via command line using VMware Online Depot. Using the VMware Online Depot is a simple way to upgrade if you only have 1 or 2 ESXi hosts to HOW TO MIGRATE A VMWARE VIRTUAL MACHINE TO AWS A common request I’ve seen among Synology NAS owners, is the ability to run virtual machines directly from their NAS. Recently Synology released a beta version of their new Virtual Machine Manager package that allows users to do exactly that.. Below I’ll detail how to install, configure, and create a Windows 10 virtual machine on mySynology DS1815+.
FIXING, THIS HOST CURRENTLY HAS NO MANAGEMENT NETWORK Disable host currently has no management network redundancy warning. First log into vSphere. I’ll be using the HTML5 client. Now select the cluster and click on the Configure tab then click on vSphere Availability and then Edit. Click on Advanced Options and then Add the following option and value and click OK: das.ignoreRedundantNetWarningtrue.
HOW TO CREATE A VIRTUAL MACHINE ON A SYNOLOGY NAS A common request I’ve seen among Synology NAS owners, is the ability to run virtual machines directly from their NAS. Recently Synology released a beta version of their new Virtual Machine Manager package that allows users to do exactly that.. Below I’ll detail how to install, configure, and create a Windows 10 virtual machine on mySynology DS1815+.
EASY UPGRADE ESXI 6.5 VIA COMMAND LINE VMware has recently released ESXi 6.5 and last week I posted on how to Install VCSA 6.5 as well as how to upgrade VCSA 6.0 to 6.5, now we’re going to look at how to easily and quickly perform an ESXi 6.5 upgrade via command line.. How to Upgrade ESXi 6.6 via command line using VMware Online Depot. Using the VMware Online Depot is a simple way to upgrade if you only have 1 or 2 ESXi hosts to CREATE A CUSTOM VPC WITH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SUBNETS ON AWS Create a custom VPC in AWS. First, log into your AWS Console and click on VPC under Network & Content Delivery “. Click on “ Create VPC “. Enter a Name and CIDR block address, for this VPC I’ll be using 10.0.0.0/16. When you create a VPC a Route Table, Network ACL, and Security Group are automatically created. HOW TO CREATE A BOOTABLE VMWARE ESXI INSTALLER USB FLASH VMware has released ESXi 6.0 back in March and I recently posted a guide on how to upgrade your vCenter Server Appliance from 5.x to 6.0 – Now we’re going to look at two ways to upgrade a VMware ESXi 5.x host to ESXi 6.0 via command line.. The first method will show you how to have each ESXi host download the update directly from VMware and then upgrade itself while the second method HOW TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR "FAILED: THE VSS VMware vCenter Server and ESXi 5.5 Update 2 has just been released today with a number of fixes and additional features such as vCenter Server database support for Oracle 12c, Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 in vCenter Server and support for ESXi hosts with 6TB of RAM in the ESXi 5.5 update 2 release!. Read More “VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 2 released” UPGRADE ESXI HOST TO ESXI 5.5 USING VMWARE UPDATE MANAGER Upgrade ESXi host to 5.5 using VMware Update Manager (VUM) Open the vSphere client and click on Update Manager. First we’ll upload the ISO image. Click on the “ ESXi Images ” tab. Click on the “ Import ESXi Image ” link. Click on “ Browse ” and select the path where the ESXi 5.5 ISO image is located on your machine ornetwork
HOW TO UPDATE VMWARE ESXI 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select the newly created baseline that you created from above and click on Attach. Next click on the Overview link in VUM and then click on Check Compliance. Once the compliance scan finishes, it’s time to actually do the ESXi 6.7 U1 upgrade. From the Updates tab, click on Host Updates, select the baseline and then click on Remediate. UPDATE VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE 6.7 TO 6.7 UPDATE 1 Select 6.7.0.20000 and click on “ Stage and Install “. Next accept the EULA, join the CEIP (or not) and finally check “ I have backed up vCenter Server and its associated databases .” and click on Finish. After a few minutes, depending on the size of your HOW TO UPGRADE SYNOLOGY DS1815+ TO 16GB RAM Just last week I replaced my Synology DS412+ to with a Synology DS1815+, which has twice the drive bays with the addition of supporting two expansion units, a much more powerful CPU, and 2GB RAM out of the box.. I’ve seen some people mention with very mixed results that both the Synology DS1515+ and Synology DS1815+ can be upgraded to 16GB of RAM, the biggest issue seems to be HOW-TO FIX VMWARE CONVERTER ERROR FAILED: UNABLE TO FIND Earlier this month I posted how on how to fix the weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key issue in VMware vRealize Orchestrator 6.0.2 appliance. Another issue I’ve ran into is how to unlock vRealize Orchestrator default account. It seems you can lock the account after to many failed attempts but once locked the account does not seem to unlock or at least for me after waiting more than a couple HOW TO REPLACE A FAILED HARD DRIVE IN A SYNOLOGY NAS How to replace a failed hard drive in your Synology NAS. The first step is to identity the hard drive this is failing. Open the Synology Storage Manger and click on HDD/SSD on the left. Here you can see that Drive 5 was failing on my Synology NAS: Now go to your Synology NAS and remove the failing drive and replace it with a new hard drive.Skip to content
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HOW TO INSTALL UBIQUITI UNIFI CONTROLLER ON THE CLOUD August 1, 2016September 18, 2018 Home Lab Recently I replaced my wireless router, an Asus RT-AC66U , with an Ubiquiti EdgeRouter X router and Ubiquiti UAP-AC-LR access point. Both of which are a HUGE step up over traditional consumer wireless routers. The Ubiquiti access points use software called the Ubiquiti UniFi controller to configure and control the access points which can be installed locally or in the cloud – allowing you to manage the access points no matter where they are located. To automate the install process, I created a simple script to deploy the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller in the cloud on a Ubuntu server, and have also tested the script on three popular VPS providers: Linode, Vultr ,
and DigitalOcean – all threeworked perfectly!
Linode would be my first choice as they offer the best performance and with 1CPU and 2GB RAM you’ll have more than plenty of resources to run Ubiquiti UniFi Controller and manage many sites and access points. If you have a small deployment, Vultr would easily be my choice with 1CPU and 768MB RAM! All three providers also cost less than AWS and Azure. UPDATE: Linode now offers a 1GB VPS with 1CPU for $5/month which makes it a slightly better choice thanVultr .
For my deployment I went with Linode as I plan on using it to control not only my home access points but to control the access points of customers and family as well.Lets begin…
CREATE A CLOUD SERVER FOR THE UNIFI CONTROLLER * First step is to create your Linode node and to do so simply select your node size and location and click on “ADD THIS LINODE!“. * Next click on “DASHBOARD“. * We need to deploy an operating system on our new node so click on “DEPLOY AN IMAGE“. * For image type select “_Ubuntu 16.04 LTS_” and set your root password then click on “DEPLOY“. * Wait until the three Host Job Queues are complete (initial config, disk create, and file system create) and then click on “BOOT“. Your new node is now built and ready to have the Ubiquiti UniFi controller installed onto it. INSTALL UBIQUITI UNIFI CONTROLLER ON UBUNTU While the Ubiquiti UniFi controller install process is pretty easy, I’ve tried to make the process even easier by scripting it. It’s now as simple as running ONE single command. The script is hosted on GitHub (unifi-autoinstall ) and I strongly urge everyone to view the source and inspect it before running it as it’s never good practice to blindly run scripts. So with that lets getstarted…
NOTE: The script has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS. It should also work on Debian but you will need to install SUDO and UFW before running the script. * SSH into your new Linode node using PuTTy or Terminal and type the following command and press ENTER to download the script to yourserver.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/miketabor/unifi-autoinstall/master/install.sh * Next lets view the script to see what it does by typing thefollowing:
less install.sh
* You can now view the contents of the UniFi autoinstall script, _install.sh_. Once you’ve viewed it you can press Q to exit andcontinue on.
* Now lets actually run the script. Type the following to start the script to auto configure the firewall, Fail2ban and install the Ubiquiti UniFi Controller. sudo bash install.sh * When the script finishes, typically less than 1 minute, you’ll see a message letting you know it’s finished and to log into your new UniFi controller by going to: HTTPS://)
* Installs latest version 5 UniFi controller and its dependencies. * Finally installs Fail2Ban and configures it to protect SSH (default) as well as the UniFi login page! Now lets discover and register the new access points to the UniFicontroller.
HOW TO REGISTER ACCESS POINTS TO UNIFI CONTROLLER IN THE CLOUD The last step is to register the access point(s) with the UniFi Controller on the cloud, in this case Linode.
* Open the Ubiquiti Discovery Tool or use the Ubiquiti Chromeextension
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* Typically right away the discovery tool will find all the access points on your local network. Next to the one you want to register with the UniFi controller click on “ACTION“. * In the Actions drop down set to “SET INFORM” and change the INFORM URL to: HTTPS://LETS HEAR FROM YOU
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BOB_HENDERSON says:
August 2, 2016 at 5:05 pm Did you really just suggest I randomly curl straight into bash from ashortened URL?
I mean, I looked at the script, it was fine. But come on bud. Don’tdo that.
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MICHAEL says:
August 3, 2016 at 7:19 am bob, I angered the bash gods for sure and have corrected my mistake. Please refresh the page and the CORRECT way of loading this script hasbeen added. :)
Thanks for the comment!-Michael
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GABRIEL says:
August 4, 2016 at 6:40 am Thanks for your time and information. Another option for Synology owner is to use it for run locally the Unify, http://synology.acmenet.ru/.Best Regards,
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MICHAEL says:
August 4, 2016 at 8:22 am Thanks Gabriel! i’m actually working on a post on how to run the UniFi on Docker within a Synology NAS as well.Reply
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REBELBAH says:
October 15, 2016 at 3:54 pm i followed your guide from “Install Ubiquiti UniFi Controller on Ubuntu” , as i used cloudatcost services and unifi 5.2.9 is running and it sees the UAP when i click adopt it shows adopting for a few minutes then shows disconnected, the UAP is connected to an edgerouter x inside of my ISP router , is there ports i need to openReply
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MICHAEL says:
October 17, 2016 at 11:23 am @rebelbah:disqus you said you are using an EdgeRouterX behind your ISP router? Do you mean your ISP modem or do you really have a routerbehind a router?
You could also try manually setting the adopt IP via SSH on the access point as shown under SSH on this page: https://help.ubnt.com/hc/en-us/articles/204909754-UniFi-Layer-3-methods-for-UAP-adoption-and-managementReply
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REBELBAH says:
October 17, 2016 at 11:30 am Yes it’s a edge router behind my ISP router, I got it working, was not issuing the inform command the second time after I was selecting adopt, thanks for your help*
NICOLAS FRENET says: November 13, 2016 at 9:08 am hello, thanks for this script but can we also run it on aws ?Reply
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FRANK ABBOT says:
March 18, 2017 at 6:47 am Nice, I have been looking for a way to tie fail2ban in with web login. I had to add a few things to make it work for me though. I was getting a couple errors upon restarting Fail2Ban. “Failed during configuration: Bad value substitution: section: option : action key : port rawval : “, protocol=”%(protocol)s”, chain=”%(chain)s”]” So for this, I added ‘port=8443′ in my jail.local file under theUbiquiti chain.
After specifying the port and restarting Fail2Ban I was given a warning, “ignoreregex’ not defined in ‘definition'” I added ‘ignoreregex=’ to /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/ubiquiti.conf All is well now I think. Please let me know if you think I should change the way I set Fail2Ban. Was your instance not throwing anyerrors?
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MICHAEL says:
March 18, 2017 at 1:51 pmFrank,
Thanks for the suggestions. What OS did you install this on? I did not have any errors during my setup nor am I having any issues with Fail2Ban blocking failed attempts.-Michael
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FRANK ABBOT says:
March 30, 2017 at 11:34 pmMichael,
I installed on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS. I had everything already installed except the the ubiquiti F2B chain. So I essentially just used line 42-47 of your script to set that up. I’m horrible with regular expressions. If I would have ever tried to set that up, it probably would have taken me a month to do so. I think your script is the only one out there that adds the ubiquiti chain to F2B. Without that in place somebody could try to brute force, 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, until cracked. If anybody is reading this and wondering if they might need F2B installed with the ubiquiti chain, don’t wonder too long! I’m very thankful for your post. This is what my configuration looks like: /etc/fail2ban/jail.localenabled = true
filter = ubiquiti
logpath = /usr/lib/unifi/logs/server.logmaxretry = 3
bantime = 31557600
findtime = 900
port = 8443,8080
/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/ubiquiti.conf failregex =^.*Failed .* login .* *s*$ignoreregex =
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MICHAEL says:
March 31, 2017 at 10:03 am @frankabbot:disqus I’m not a security guru but do I do have an interest it in so things like this script above I try to be at least a little security conscious. I’m glad the Fail2Ban is working fine for you as well. I’ve had little to no problem with people trying to brute force my UniFi controller but it’s nice knowing there’s an extra layer of protection there. ;)-Michael
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PROPUPUL says:
May 1, 2017 at 2:29 pm Hey Mike, great guide! I was reading this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/5n2bti/ubiquiti_device_securityhardening_guides/#bottom-comments and came upon a comment you left there. Specifically you said “In addition to the script I’ve also locked down SSH to key and only accept connections via my home IP range.” Would you mind sharing a guide on how to do that? Thanks!Reply
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MICHAEL says:
May 1, 2017 at 2:40 pm@Propupul,
I’ve modified the UFW rule that’s part of the install script above and instead entered the following: sudo ufw allow from 1.2.3.4 to any port 22 Replacing 1.2.3.4 with your IP address. Now the firewall will only allow SSH (port 22) connections from that IP address!Hope this helps.
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PROPUPUL says:
May 13, 2017 at 2:36 pm Sorry Mike I thought I had replied! And thanks this works like acharm!!!
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NICOLAS FRENET says: July 18, 2017 at 10:15 am hello, thanks for this script. Just copied the fail2ban part to add to my already running unifi controller. I been waiting for a good minute on ubiquiti to add some kind of 2 factor authentication to unifi . I really wonder how many people use their controller in the cloud with this lack of security login ! The same for the aircontrol server. do you think you could provide me the fail2ban configuration for it ?thanks
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JORGE says:
January 29, 2019 at 2:46 pm thanks for the post. question for you. i ran the script but i keep getting this error. what’s the work around here if you encourted it.thanks,
enabled = true
filter = ubiquiti
logpath = /usr/lib/unifi/logs/server.logmaxretry = 3
bantime = 3600
findtime = 900
port = 8443
banaction = iptables Job for fail2ban.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status fail2ban.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details. JSVC_EXTRA_OPTS=”$JSVC_EXTRA_OPTS -Xss1280k”Reply
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AXEL GUZMAN says:
January 29, 2019 at 2:46 pm Hi , Thanks for the script , everything works great, but I cant access the unifi web console , It says that the IP refusses the connection.I am using LINODE
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MICHAEL says:
January 29, 2019 at 2:46 pmAxel,
Make sure that :8443 is at the end of the URL.-Michael
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FARIS says:
August 9, 2019 at 2:28 pmHi,
Just experienced same issue. Anyone has resolved this? Please help.Reply
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MIKE TABOR says:
August 9, 2019 at 2:38 pmWhat issue?!
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FARIS says:
August 11, 2019 at 10:22 am my issue was same with Jorge :enabled = true
filter = ubiquiti
logpath = /usr/lib/unifi/logs/server.logmaxretry = 3
bantime = 3600
findtime = 900
port = 8443
banaction = iptables Job for fail2ban.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status fail2ban.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details. JSVC_EXTRA_OPTS=”$JSVC_EXTRA_OPTS -Xss1280k”*
BERTRAND says:
September 13, 2019 at 11:17 pmHello,
Thanks for the procedure. I have the Linode running smoothly on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, the install script successfully completed displaying “Access controller by going to https://:8443“. However, when I try to connect to “https://XXXX:8443” with both Chrome or Firefox, using my specific Linode IP address, the connection is refused. What happens? Any idea how I can debug this glitch? Thank you for yourinsights.
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WILLIAM says:
June 11, 2020 at 11:33 am This is no longer working.Reply
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