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Resolve Unable to find PowerShell! on VS Code for macOS
I recently moved over to an Apple Silicon-based Macbook Pro, and after installing Visual Studio Code and Powershell (pwsh), I was prompted with the following error. Unable to find PowerShell! Do you have it installed? You can also configure custom installations with the ‘powershell.powerShellAdditionalExePaths’ setting. Fortunately, the fix is straightforward. First, open up Terminal (zsh)…
Bypass macOS Security Gatekeeper for vCenter Installer
If you are hitting this error while trying to launch the VCSA Installer, “Installer” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image. This is most likely just macOS Security Gatekeeper getting in the way, don’t worry the fix is simple! Note: This issue also affects the CLI Installer too. To have…
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…
Change ESXi 7 System Storage Installation Size
Just a quick post on changing the system storage media size for ESXi 7.0 Installation. As of ESXi 7.0, a new partition layout was introduced and the installation can now consume up to 138GB of storage to allow for new features and enhancments to be added in future releases. The partition is auto-sized depending on…
Customise ESXi Image Profiles using vCenter Image Builder UI
Customising ESXi image profiles is helpful when you need to add custom drivers to your ESXi installation image. I will demonstrate in this post, how to customise ESXi image profiles using the built-in Image Builder service on vCenter 7. I usually use Powershell to build customised ESXi images; however, non-windows users might find this handy…
Fix Remote Host Identification Has Changed! on macOS
I get this issue quite a bit in my homelab, and it’s expected as I frequently rebuild hosts, replace SSL certificates etc. The reason it happens is that the key to the IP address you’re connecting to is saved in the file, “known_hosts” from a previous session, and is now different to the one you…
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