Proxmox on VMware
Proxmox on VMware KB ID 0001867 Problem In the wake of Broadcom doing its best to strangle VMware and its discontinuation of free ESX. I thought I’d look at the free alternatives. Previously I looked at Nutanix (and was not over enamoured.) So the next option is Proxmox. Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) is a robust open-source server virtualisation platform that merges two cutting-edge virtualisation technologies Linux...
Nutanix on VMware vSphere ESX 8
Nutanix on VMware KB ID 0001866 Problem In the wake of Broadcom doing its best to strangle VMware and its discontinuation of free ESX. I thought I’d look at the free alternatives. The most obvious is Nutanix CE (Community Edition) which is both free, and lets you have up to 4 nodes – which is impressive, as Free ESX does not have clustering or access to vCenter. Honest Opinion: It’s very flaky, if you want a solution...
Nutanix: Could Not Reach Next Server
Could Not Reach Next Server KB ID 0001865 Problem Nutanix is very flaky! On a new (single host cluster,) post setup whilst attempting to login to Prism for the first time, it wanted to link to my Nutanix account. Unknown host, could not reach NEXT server. Please configure name server Solution : Could Not Reach Next Server Why do I say it’s flaky, well I defined a DNS server when I created the cluster. However, If I fired up SSH...
Camtasia Recording Quit Unexpectedly
Recording Quit Unexpectedly KB ID 0001864 Problem I use Camtasia every so often, both for sending screencasts to colleagues, and for making videos for my YouTube channel. Camtasia and Snagit are one of the few pieces of software I gladly pay for. After a recent update though every time I wanted to capture a recording, this happened. Recording Quit Unexpectedly Camtasia is unable to recover the recording. Solution: Recording Quit...
Cannot Remove vCLS Virtual Machine
Cannot Remove vCLS KB ID 0001863 Problem I had a NAS box fail on me and the NFS share it was presenting to my vSphere environment was no longer available. Which was fine, but there was a vCLS (vSphere Cluster Services) virtual machine in that datastore, that I could not get rid of, as the datastore was no longer available, and I could not remove the datastore because, (as far as VMware was concerned it had a VM in it). Solution:...