I tried to update my pfSense from version 2.4.5 to 2.5.0. But I always got the following message in the GUI. A reboot of the pfsense or cleaning the packages with “pkg-static clean -ya” was not solving the problem. After a while I found a Workaround by disabled Ipv6 under “System – Advanced – Networking”
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I’m currently testing PyVmomi, Ansible and other Tools for Automation. The biggest problem is, that I don’t have on my Laptop or other testing enviroment not always a vCenter with enought Hosts, VMs and other Components. With a little bit of searching I found vcsim. It’s a vCenter API Simulatorhttps://github.com/vmware/govmomi/tree/master/vcsim And on the dockerhub I
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I’m storing my data on iCloud Drive and often I would like to access the files in a terminal window. But to find the correct path to the iCloud Drive is very time consuming. So I have a nice shortcut for that, just put the following code into your profile script. (.zprofile in the userhome
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I started the creation of a vCenter Support Bundle over the admin UI of the vCenter Appliance by clicking on “Actions – Create Support Bundle” But after a while, the download failed with network error So if the creation of the bundle is not working over the UI, you can also do it manually over
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Today I tried to open the Update Manager and got the following error. Authentication failed, Update Manager server could not be contacted When searching the VMware KB I found the following Article:https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/60436But I already had the mentioned Version installed. A restart of the Update Manager Service or login/logoff on the HTML5 UI didn’t fixed the
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On my Intel NUC 10i5FNH I get always the error “TPM 2.0 device detected but a connection cannot be established” in the GUI. Also after disabling the TPM Option in the BIOS, I still had this error message. I found a solution based on the blog of virtuallyghetto.comhttps://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2020/08/disabling-tpm-2-0-connection-cannot-be-established-message-in-esxi-for-intel-nuc-10.html In the readme of the bios release
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I have the ansible playbook and variables stored in a gitlab repo. This are the steps I’ve done to synchronize it to AWX. In Gitlab.com choose the Repository – Settings – Deploy Tokens and create an Token with a password. In AWX create a credential to synchronize the gitlab.com Repository. Use the username and password
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I would like to automate also a lot of tasks at home, so I installed AWX and this are the steps I did. First I installed Docker based on the following Documentationhttps://docs.docker.com/engine/install/centos/ When Docker is running successfully, install the prerequisites needed for AWX. Then I create a dedicated folder for AWX and in there 2
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I’m just updating my Home-Lab and bought 2x Intel Nuc 10i5FNH. I used the following components, to be able to try also some vSAN stuff (hopefully bought the right things) Intel NUC 10i5FNH SAN Disk USB-Stick Ultra Fit USB3.1 32 GB (Install ESXi) Samsung 860 EVO Basic (500GB, 2.5″) SSD Samsung 860 EVO, 250GB, M.2,
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Today I tried to update my Navigation System of my Skoda Octavia and had some problems with the update. But at the end I was able so solve all problems and I share my experience here. First you need to download the new software and this can be done on the following page:updateportal.skoda-auto.com The update
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