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Category: Microsoft Windows

Deploy Additional Embedded vCSAs with CLI Installer

February 1, 2019 Jonny Microsoft Windows, vCSA, VMware, vSphere

I’ve been toying with automated and scripted deployments of vCSAs and ESXi recently so thought I’d do a quick run through deploying an additional embedded vCSA in Enhanced Linked Mode via CLI. This topology is

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Deploy VMware vCSA with CLI Installer

January 23, 2019 Jonny Microsoft Windows, vCenter, vCSA, vSphere

The whole point of a homelab is having an environment that’s detached from production and can be broken without consequence. Recently though, my homelab has become a bit more prod/DC/darling, why is the internet not

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Fixing “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.”

November 15, 2018 Jonny Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Top tip when using Active Directory: always keep the credentials for a local administrator in a password manager somewhere disconnected from your main environment. When the day comes (and it will come) that you’re greeted

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Deploy OVAs to vCenter with VMware OVF Tool

September 23, 2017 Jonny Microsoft Windows, vCenter, VMware, vSphere

Try to deploy an OVA in vCenter 6.5 and you’ll likely see the following helpful little number- After some mucking about, I found a supported solution- VMware OVF Tool.

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How to Fix Windows Error: ‘Selected port cannot be deleted…’

September 2, 2015 Jonny Microsoft Windows, Print Spooler, regedit.exe, Services

Whilst mapping network printers today I came across an issue where printers had previously been mapped to the machine and print ports were being duplicated. Normally to delete ports you could follow these steps: Go

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Recent Posts

  • Provisioning ESXi Hosts with Auto Deploy
  • Performing Scripted ESXi Installation
  • Upgrade vCSA from 6.5 to 6.7 with CLI Installer
  • Deploy Additional Embedded vCSAs with CLI Installer
  • Remove Enhanced Link Mode vCenters from Inventory with cmsso-util

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