Yesterday Windows 11 is officially released. Windows 11 require a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 (link). . My VMware ESXi servers at home don’t have a TPM 2.0. During the installation, Windows will check for the presence of a TPM 2.0, if not available the installation will fail. There is …
Continue ReadingVMware Tools releases have been decoupled from VMware vSphere release since version 10.0. You can now standardize to the latest VMware Tools by configuring a centralized repository. This can be useful when you want to point to a new VMware Tools version when for example a security vulnerability in …
Continue ReadingUpdated: August 19, 2023. Debian 11 is not supported any more for running Home Assistant Supervised. For a supported configuration, you need Debian 12. The steps in this blog are updated to install Home Assistant as Debian 12 VM in VMware ESXi. Updated: December 2, 2022. Debian 10 is not supported …
Continue ReadingIn my lab environment, I use the latest Windows 10 or Windows 11 versions (for example the new Windows 11 23H2) for creating and testing golden images for VDI environments. To download the latest Windows ISOs file I use the Windows Media Creation Tool. This is a Windows-based tool. When starting the …
Continue ReadingI’m preparing for the AZ-140 Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) exam. Update: June 10, 2021, the exam is out of beta and Generally Available (Link ). The following resources I’m using for studying for the exam: Exam AZ-140: Configuring and Operating Windows Virtual Desktop on Microsoft Azure – Skills …
Continue ReadingAdobe Flash is no longer supported after December 31, 2020, and currently disabled by default. During my consulting work, I still see organizations that use Adobe Flash-based applications such as the VMware Horizon Administrator. VMware Horizon 7.10 has an HTML5 based Horizon Console that nearly …
Continue ReadingLast week I tried to patch a vCenter Server High Availability (VCHA) 7 cluster environment. I read the documentation and the procedure described looks still the same as in version 6.x. First patch the witness node, then the passive node, failover the active node, and patch the passive node using the …
Continue ReadingFor a Disaster Recovery (DR) site, I designed a separate isolated VMware Horizon environment. The vCenter Server has an external (eth0) and internal (eth1) IP address. The external connection is for management and restoring production VMs to the DR environment. The internal connection is for Horizon …
Continue ReadingOne of the use cases for running ESXi-ARM in my home lab environment is running Home Assistant. Home Assistant is a great open-source platform for home automation. After assembling the Pi cluster (see my previous blog post ) and installing ESXi on ARM (ESXi-ARM) using the “Fling on Raspberry Pi ” …
Continue ReadingShortly after VMworld 2020, VMware released (after years of announcing and demoing) the ESXi On ARM fling (*1). On Social media and the community ESXi on ARM is a very hot topic. The ESXi ARM fling makes it possible to run the VMware ESXi hypervisor on ARM platforms such as: Avantek Workstation and …
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