Technology and Life
Anything related to tech.
Part of my job is to maintain my technical certifications and learn as much as I can about the products my clients use and our company sells. Some of these, we have a full size lab engineers and sales architects can log into and get hands on really expensive gear. Most of the products are […]
VMware has decided not to stop providing general support in November of 2021 – extending it until October 2022. We’ll get another eleven months to plan and migrate off vSphere 6.7. For most small and mid size businesses, this won’t be much of a challenge. The upgrade path to 7.x is very well established. Most […]
I ran into an annoying issue with Chrome with a generic installation of MacOS crashing right after launching. After installing it from Google I simply launched the app, as one does. The Chrome logo appears in the dock then yeets itself off somewhere. Sometimes it may generate a crash report, but most of the time […]
I’ve been troubleshooting some pretty annoying bugs in our Cisco UCS environments. Most are easily solved by collecting some techsupport files, opening a TAC case and working through the glitch or config issue. However one has me really stumped and frustrated. When we collect these techsupport files, more specifically techsupport files directed at a specific […]
I ran into a situation where I needed to test upgrading VMware tools using an alternative method other than directly through vCenter or auto update. To do this testing I had to roll back the most recent version of VMware Tools on a VM to an older one. Uninstall latest, reboot, install older, reboot. No […]