ESXi Host Upgrades fail with space warnings.

Have you been trying to update a stand alone ESXi host and running into the dreaded “no space left on device” error? Failed to update bootloader: [Errno 28] No space left on deviceYeah, me too. Of course I check to see if there’s enough space – and there is. So what to do? Well, I […]

vCenter 7.0 on VMware Fusion

You probably are here because you want to run VMware vCenter 7 on your Mac. Maybe using VMware Fusion, maybe another hypervisor. If you’re looking for some common failures because you already tried it a few times and run into errors – you can skip to the troubleshooting section. Let’s get the prerequisites out of […]

Apple pushes MacOS 11 to Apple Silicon

Apple has announced they will be leaving Intel behind for powering their core line of computers. I lived through two of these major transitions – once when Apple moved from Motorola 68000 series processors to IBM PowerPC processors, and again from PowerPC to Intel x86 processors. Now Apple has announced they’re scaling up their A […]

Home Lab 2020

Part of my job is to maintain my technical certifications and learn as much as I can about the products my clients use and our company sells. Some of these, we have a full size lab engineers and sales architects can log into and get hands on really expensive gear. Most of the products are […]

vSphere 6.7 Pardoned Until Oct 2022

VMware has decided not to stop providing general support in November of 2021 – extending it until October 2022. We’ll get another eleven months to plan and migrate off vSphere 6.7. For most small and mid size businesses, this won’t be much of a challenge. The upgrade path to 7.x is very well established. Most […]