Author: Piotr Tarnawski

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Posted in PowerShell

PowerCLI 12.5 – What’s New – Get-VIApplianceService

The new version of PowerCLI has been released by VMware in January. It contains a bunch of new features with one particularly interesting cmdlet Get-VIApplianceService….

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Posted in vCenter

Run the pre-check python script before upgrading vCenter Server 7.0 to Update 3c

Upgrading to vCenter Server 7.0U3c now requires an additional precheck to ensure that the ESXi Hosts managed by your vCenter Server are at the correct…

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Posted in Security Advisory vCenter

vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3c has been released.

Finally, VMware released a new update for vCenter Server addressing all the issues documented in KB86281, also including Apache log4j version 2.17. IMPORTANT: VMware removed ESXi…

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Posted in PowerShell

FIX: After upgrade PowerCLI to 12.5 there is no Get-VIApplianceService Command

You may come accross that after updating your PowerCLI module to version 12.5, you cannot run Get-VIApplianceService command. Even that your modules shows correct version….

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Posted in PowerShell

PowerShell – WARNING: Unable to resolve package source ‘https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2’.

I was going to update the PowerCLI module to version 12.5 once I received the above error. The first thing I was going to try…

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Posted in Python

Free Python Course! From Zero to Hero? – Installation and setup.

Welcome, everyone! I would like to present you Free Python course! No coding experience is necessary, hence we are starting from zero! Are we going…

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Posted in PowerShell Virtual Machines

How to migrate or move a template to different datastore?

On the first glace it should be relatively easy. One right-click on a template and migrate to different datastore. However there is no option to…

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Posted in Security Advisory

Is VMware going to update log4j to version 2.17

As we know by now that the only solution for Log4j is to get it updated to version 2.17. The question is if VMware is…

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Posted in VMware Blockchain

VMware Blockchain – the Farmer

From my previous article you know what the VMware Blockchain is. Now it is a time to see how transactions work on the blockchain, and…

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Posted in Virtual Machines

Connection control operation failed for disk ‘ide0:0’

Once you want to remove CD/DVD you may receive an error: Connection control operation failed for disk ‘ide0:0’. Also once you want to run PowerCli…

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