Bits, Bytes, & Radio Waves

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Technology

  • ESXi 6.5 STIG Welcome Message

    So the ESXi 6.5 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) finally released in May 2019. Unfortunately, some of the items I would have liked to see fixed or updated were not. One of the biggest pet peeves is the Annotations.WelcomeMessage advanced setting check. This setting updates the /etc/vmware/welcome file in the filesystem. If the STIG fix…

  • Making a REST API Request in vRealize Orchestrator

    This was a tough nut to crack for me. I definitely don’t ever want to struggle through learning this topic again. I hope if you are reading this, I can save you a ton of lost time. I use Postman to scope out the concepts before trying to translate them in vRealize Orchestrator (vRO). When…

  • Recover vCenter Appliance after Power/Storage Failure

    Well, this would have saved me quite a bit of time in my past. My storage device got unplugged from the network while my lab was running and vCenter refused to come back. This is expected as the appliance has an embedded database. I found this article from VMware that worked! It took less than…