Create a Bootable ESXi 8 USB Installer on macOS

With the release of vSphere 8, some of you may need a solution for creating a bootable USB installer for ESXi 8 on macOS without using a 3rd party utility. You will be happy to know that my previous blog post Create a Bootable ESXi 7 USB Installer on macOS, still works perfectly. Note this…

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Remove certificates with weak signature algorithms in vCenter Server

During the vCenter Server 8.0 upgrade, I was faced with the following Pre-upgrade check error and wasn’t able to continue the upgrade. As of vCenter Server 8.0, certificates with SHA-1 signature algorithms are no longer supported and must be removed or replaced with a certificate that uses SHA-2 signature algorithm. In this post, I’ll show…

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