My current homelab is basically a vmware ESXi server, a FreeNAS and some other common found components like an UPS, a few Raspis, Switches, WLAN access points… Most of the hardware is old stuff I bought from companies that replaced it on their end. Other parts were gifts from friends. In other words, it’s quite some junkyard of […]
Tag: vmware
An open Letter to VMware, Inc
Dear Sir or Madam, This is an open letter to you. Once again your website brings the joy of being unable to download the files I need in a timely fashion started by a redesign making it horrible to find anything again as it is in a new place. For the sake of modern web, I do understand […]
Free as in …?
Vmware drives me crazy. Today I got aware of a ‘new’ Hypervisor, the ESXi 5.5 which should be the new and shiny stuff from vmware, dropping the 32 GB wRAM limit. But the first unpleasant surprise awaits us at the new vSphere client, presented at the login screen:
Exchanging SSL Certificates at the ESXi
The ESXi server uses self-signed ssl certificates by default. As you know, this isn’t really what I prefer, especially since I am working with CAcert certificates. But sadly there is no nice GUI solution for replacing those certs and so I was forced to take a dive into the console world of vmware once again, looking for the […]