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vCenter Simulator for Developing purpose

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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Authentication failed, Update Manager server could not be contacted

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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TPM 2.0 device detected but a connection cannot be established

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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