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For those Supermicro E200 or E300 users, if you have tried installing ESXi 6.5 on a SSD which is connected to the AHCI controller, you might not able to install successfully. Therefore, you might need to remove the conflicting AHCI driver. The below steps are used to create a custom ESXi 6.5U1 ISO with the removed vmw-ahci driver. Add-EsxSoftwareDepot “https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml” New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile “ESXi-6.5.0-20170702001-standard” -name “ESXi-6.5.0-u1-SM300″ -Vendor “acepod.com” Remove-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile “ESXi-6.5.0-u1-SM300″ -SoftwarePackage “vmw_ahci” ...

Update on 23 Dec 2017 NSX-T 2.1 was GA. I thought since Im going to re-do the whole process, I might as well take new screenshots as well. You might be wondering why would I want to use ovftool to install NSX-T appliances. This is because my management host is not being managed by a vCenter and it failed when using the vSphere Client. You can see from the screenshot above, I only have hosts for the EdgeComp Cluster. ...

Update on 23 Dec 2017 NSX-T 2.1 was GA. I was using a pre-GA version before. Since Im going to reinstall using the GA version, I thought might as well I take the screenshots again. You might be wondering why would I want to use ovftool to install NSX-T appliances. This is because my management host is not being managed by a vCenter and it failed when using the vSphere Client. ...

In my last post, I share the NSX Test App. Nowadays, we talks about containers, dockers and kubernetes. So I was thinking, why not create this NSX Test App as a container as well. This could save people time from downloading the NSX Test App PHP script as well as setting up the apache and PHP environment. These are the steps I took.   docker run -it -p 81:80 –name web1 nimmis/apache-php5 /bin/bash ...

A few of you have watched my youtube videos such as VIC, SRM with NSX and requested for the NSX Test App that I used for my demos. Alright, I thought why not share to the community the simple PHP Web application that I wrote. I also written a Lucky Draw App for my demo use which I use at large audience events, to have a little engagement with the audience. ...

You might be wondering why would I want to use ovftool to install NSX-T appliances. This is because my management host is not being managed by a vCenter and it failed when using the vSphere Client. You can see from the screenshot above, I only have hosts for the EdgeComp Cluster. As I do not have additional hosts for the management cluster, I will be using an existing management host that is standalone. ...