Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

A quiet journey through discovery and understanding.

Author: Aaron Rombaut

  • VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Bundle Transfer Utility (v 5.2) and Offline Depot with Photon OS 5 (Archived)

    This post covers building an offline depot for VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2 using the legacy Bundle Transfer Utility on Photon OS. It focuses on Photon-specific setup details, repository configuration, and operational considerations encountered in the field. While archived, the content remains relevant for customers supporting existing VCF 5.x environments.

  • ESXi – iSCSI Boot from SAN

    If you’re setting up iSCSI boot from SAN for your ESXi hosts, there’s an important detail to keep in mind right from the start: each ESXi host gets its own dedicated LUN. That means there’s a one-to-one relationship between LUNs and hosts—these boot LUNs can’t be shared across multiple hosts. Once your hosts are up…

  • TrueNAS NFS and VMware vSphere

    Overview I am not going to mention versions as as soon as I publish, I know they will be out of date. Either way, I was struggling to get TrueNAS NFS attached to my vSphere lab over the weekend and thought I would capture the details here for future reference. For personal reasons, I do…