Sometime in 2017 when I was doing freelance consulting, I was in the middle of a vSphere upgrade from 6 to 6.5 for a client of mine, and it went a little bit wrong. I opened a GSS case with VMware support and after a few things were checked, it still wasn’t working. To make matters worse, the install was in ELM and one of the PSCs (remember those?) was upgraded, the other was not, and only one of the vCenter servers would start its services. It was a bit of a mess if I’m honest. I can’t remember the specifics. Ultimately, production wasn’t down, so VMware support’s view of the urgency was not ..read more

This post is a work in progress. I can’t guarantee that this will work through a reboot This works through a reboot but might not after firmware upgrade, so make sure to back up the config files. I’ve also not extensively tested it so I don’t know if it has any inadvertent effects on the UniFi OS or its applications. This is also completely unsupported by Ubiquti so proceed at your own risk. I will endeavour to update once I’ve done some further testing. If you end up with a bricked device, do not blame me is what I’m saying! To back out, if all else fails, factory reset the SE. It goes withou ..read more

A question came up in an internal Slack channel whether VMware had written a guide on installing the OS Assisted Migration (OSAM) Sentinel Agent via Microsoft’s SCCM (now called Endpoint Manager) software. I don’t think such a guide exists, so I thought ‘how hard can it be?’ and decided to give it a go. The answer is… more difficult than I thought! But this would be very simple for experienced SCCM administrators. It’s actually something which would be very beneficial to many customers looking to leverage HCX to migrate their Hyper-V VMs into a vSphere environment such as VMC on AWS or VCF. Cu ..read more

For my home firewall I’ve recently switched from using a UniFi USG Pro to a virtual Untangle Next Generation Firewall (Untangle NG Firewall) appliance. The USG has served me well, however with no future developments for USG firmware, it’s starting to show its age somewhat. More advanced VPN support is lacking, there’s no 10 Gbps LAN, and having to configure anything not exposed in the GUI via the config.gateway.json file is a bit of a headache when you start looking into BGP peering with an NSX Edge as an example. I could go on, but that is not the point of this post! I looked at the Dream Mac ..read more