vSphere Client Download In the past it has been a massive pain to download the vSphere client. Although the web UI has become far less clunky and much more streamlined – we still present the vSphere Client download links for ALL client versions to date! A fair chunk of standard day-to-day administration can be comfortably …

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This article addresses the following error: “The requested media for interface 1.1 is invalid” when using the f5 virtual edition on ESXi. Once possible reason for this error is mentioned under “Known Issues” in the release notes for 11.x e.g. : http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/product/relnote-ve-11-4-0.print.html The entry reads as follows: ID 352856 “If an SCF is migrated between …

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This article details how to change the ESXi system time and HW clock on your ESXi hypervisor machine via the CLI. Ideally we want to use NTP to set the system time but if your clock is too far out from the actual time then this will fail and you may see something like this …

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  This article describes how to fix the error “No Hard Drives Have Been Found” when installing Checkpoint Gaia on ESX. This is a simple one – I used to work round it by implementing an IDE drive instead of SCSI but actually it’s just due to the SCSI controller type. It happens when you …

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Scenario: New HP ProLiant server Gen8 with B120i RAID controller, logical drive created on a RAID 1 array Installing from a stock ISO, I came up against the error that “one or more disks have the same UUID” – this was after installing successfully and rebooting. Using the boot parameter “overrideDuplicateImageDetection” I was able to …

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