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…

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Convert Thick-Provisioned VMs to Thin on vSAN and Reclaim Storage

In this post, I’ll explain how easy and non-distrustfully it is to convert Thick disks to Thin on vSAN. Firstly you should understand that objects on vSAN are all thinly provisioned by default and there is no real concept of Thick disks. Instead, vSAN has the concept of Space Reservation, defined by the Storage-Policy ruleset Object…

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Invalid vCenter Cert using macOS Catalina and Chrome

I had redeployed my home lab vCenter appliance, and upon attempting to access the vCenter UI, I was denied access and encountered the following error “NET::ERR_CERT_INVALID“ Details in the Error vc.virtuallywired.io normally uses encryption to protect your information. When Google Chrome tried to connect to vc.virtuallywired.io this time, the website sent back unusual and incorrect…

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Install Free SSL Certificate for vSphere 7 Home Lab

Last year I wrote the follow guide Install Free Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate for your vCenter 6.7 Lab. The certificate was issued by Let’s Encrypt via a project called ZeroSSL. Recently ZeroSSL stopped using Let’s Encrypt, and started issuing the certificates themselves, therefore the process to generate the certificate outlined in that guide is no…

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Fix Error, You cannot visit site right now because the website uses HSTS

I faced this error on Chrome. You cannot visit “site” right now because the website uses HSTS. The HTTP Strict-Transport-Security response header (HSTS) lets a web site tell browsers that it should only be accessed using HTTPS, instead of using HTTP, therefore, preventing access. I received this error because I had accessed this URL previously…

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