Random Technology thoughts from an Irish Virtualization Geek (who enjoys saving the world in his spare time).
So Chrome 73 brought in Dark Mode support on MacOS Mojave. I use Dark Mode, but I'm not 100% sold on using Dark Mode in Chrome - mostly because it's so similar to Incognito Mode. There is no toggle mode within Chrome to disable it - it inherits it from the OS, but if you... Continue Reading →
Have you ever built a VM and went a bit nuts in terms of the initial maximum size you allocated to the VMDK? Something like this? I know I have. Extending a virtual disk with VMware Fusion is a piece of cake, but shrinking one (and by shrinking I mean reducing the maximum size of... Continue Reading →
Sometimes, if you've killed a vSphere object in a less than 100% graceful fashion, you end up with phantom entries in your license screen. In this case we have a phantom vCenter, but it could equally be an ESXi host etc. There are a couple of ways to tackle this, but I used JXplorer (http://jxplorer.org/downloads/).... Continue Reading →
Just recently, while manually installing VVD 4.3 on VxRail I ran into an issue whereby I managed to lock myself out of vCenter due to an errant firewall rule. It's easy to do. When setting up a Security Group and adding an IP set, you need first select the IP set to add, then click to... Continue Reading →
