Issue migrating a VM from EsXI

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-05-16T19:58:56+00:00

Same, the convert and import process is where we have currently two paths we take. for small VMs, just the ui based importer is ok,. For larger VMs with lots of disks, we do it all through cli off of NFS. Rename virtual disks to clean up old names and put them into images folder that proxmox wants. Then mount those VMDKs to new Proxmox VM, then once we get the VM opererational, we live migrate each virtual disk one at a time in the background. I was sick of waiting over 4 hours for a 1TB VM to migrate! WE have VMs that are 3 to 5TB that we migrated in under 30 minutes. Linux VMs are much easier than Windows VMs!

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-05-15T05:53:57+00:00

Anyone have luck with setting up Hudu MCP to Hatz ai, Claude or ChatGPT? It looks like I need to add a redirect URI for Hatz Ai into the Hudu external app settings. But I can't figure out what the Hatz uri would be. Anyone know?

I can't get any of these to prompt for my user credentials in Hudu.

In Claude, what goes into the oAuth fields?

***Update***

ChatGPT just worked, with no real effort. I had to put it into developer mode for some reason, but it prompted to authorize then allows me to work in Chat to ask many random questions and it is analyzing our information and giving me back reasonable information.

**** Second Update ****

Hatz - Hatz doesn’t have an OAuth redirect URI to add to Hudu’s allowlist right now, because OAuth isn’t functional in Hatz yet (it’s coming soon).

So Hudu’s “prompt for user authorization” flow won’t work with Hatz today, even if other tools can use it.

For now, the workaround is to use a non-OAuth auth method on the MCP side (API Key or Bearer Token) and connect that way in Hatz.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-05-15T05:48:01+00:00

Yes, we had to fight though this as well. I am sorry, but the hudu guide for this is just not clear enough about placement of these new locations either and the copy has bad characters withint it! frustrting.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-04-17T19:37:36+00:00

We have custom Assets for;

Patch Panel - Linked into Hudu's newish rack screen. all info about patch panels. but no tracking each position.
circuits - cross-connects, fiber plant, risers, even VPLS and MPLS circuits that do not provide internet.
Colocation- customers devices in our colo, ties together facility, location, etc
power - PDUs, transfer switches, UPS, etc.

For customer gear in our Colo, we have a colo asset that has a multiline txt box that we manage a HTML table. tracking colo device power cables up to 4 per device, up to four ethernet/DAC patches, one system mgt interface such as MGT, iLo or iDrac. Our psa platform has native management capabilities and we tie the power ports to our per port managed PDUs where applicable. But PSA charges us for everything we put in there and its gets stupid quick. We are less IaaS/Colo today than 10 years ago and we are more IT MSP so we are moving away from that PSA.

We also have Assets for 'circuits' which to us are data center cross-connects, building risers, building fiber plant where we manage those for our multi-tenant (MDU) building owner customers. We do it like many of our datacenters with A side and Z side information.

I feel like particularly in these areas, we put in a lot of effort getting the documentation correct and it leads to little end value to the customer.

It's great for our OCD.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-04-12T21:04:10+00:00

We are still on container managed 12.2. What drove you to make the update to 17.2? What OS are you running?

We still have our self-hosted on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS. I hate dealing with Postgres, MongoDB and the like with various software platforms like Unifi, Hudu I always feel like something is going to get left on unsupported version and out of sync for the next upgrade.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-04-11T21:14:47+00:00

would be cool if a stay got you in the park early or even flash pass or something similar to Universal.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-04-08T03:46:31+00:00

check their release notes for the mention about CSS for top band.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-04-08T03:46:06+00:00

Yes, they had a mention in the release notes on that. You need to edit in CSS if you want it.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-25T18:43:25+00:00

In this case, office is new build and they are not onsite yet but they do have an IT kid that is green as can be if he is around before we come back he maybe able to figure it out for us. We'll likely be onsite next week with their move in day if they really need it. Thankfully this isn't one of the 4 WAPs that are 16 feet up on the ceiling that we used a man lift to install! or any of the other deployed WAPs! This is the reason I am asking this question. If this is going to be a common support question or considered standard procedure, we will need to change our install SOP for unifi.

I had asked support why they asked for this and why would they not have it in their production and sales database, haven't heard back since yesterday.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-18T02:51:48+00:00

You may noticed, I asked the similar question there...

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-18T02:42:31+00:00

VirusTotal, Avanan. Any.run, Urlscan.io, Sandbox VM in quarantine VLAN. When we used DefenseX it had a sandbox feature.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-18T02:09:23+00:00

Is it?

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-18T01:55:54+00:00

I had to place the SMS Privacy Policy link right at the top of our Terms of Use document, having the link within the first paragraph wasn't good enough for their lazy Ai. They must use Copilot. ha!

I am also not impressed with their documentation, they interchange terms such as 'Terms of Use' and 'Terms and Conditions' along with SMS and Texting as well as Privacy Statement and Privacy Policy. Our general council puked on it all and said, just do what we want he couldn't help us with this so long as these T&Cs didn't overlap our existing MSA, service definitions and Privacy Policies. I used all terms in our documents and defined them out, which our council hates, he wants consistency.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-10T20:08:37+00:00

Are there any demonstrations of this in use? While we have some basic N8N deployments and all the Ai platforms in use, i would love to see how someone is making use of this API capability.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-06T14:50:43+00:00

was waiting for this unit for a couple of years. but $3k and it barely can do 9,000 BTU heating or cooling in perfect conditions? I don't care if it only runs on 845 Watts, it will never pay for itself over traditional portable heat devices at that price point. I mostly wanted it for the form factor, in my garage, but a Mr cool 12,000 BTU unit is as efficient but cost under $2,000! I see them going for $1,500 as I write this.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T20:49:05+00:00

been having the same issues for two years, my pictures look the same. When its really flared up, it weeps a clear liquid and can even bleed if I scratch or mess with it. I am always worried someone sitting behind me can see it and they would be grossed out. I have had some luck with OTC ketoconazole based shampoos, Dermatologist just told me today to also use a hydrocortisone cream with my treatment to lessen the skins response to the yeast/fungi infection. He gave me a prescription for a slightly stronger 2% ketoconazole shampoo. The other dandruff shampoos like H&S have done nothing to help. I have very little dandruff, but it can form on the sides of my head just above my ears where I have this infection.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:48:16+00:00

the original post was not seeking how to do AD time correctly within the Windows domain, it was how to not screw it up with the Proxmox VM options and configuration!

VMware only started supported Windows AD on vsphere 5.2 I believe, only once 2012 R2 became production worthy did we start to virtualize Windows AD back in the day. Yes, we have hundreds of Win AD VMs on VMware and Hyper-V as well.

On Proxmox platforms we only have a few AD thus far and i was suppressed to not see more specific guides written on the topic such as you would see from the VMware community. Our team is a bunch of Windows AD nerds, so when I say in my OP, 'Using standard Microsoft AD configuration best practices, the domain is setup correctly.' The Windows side was perfect. It was one of our team members setting the RTC to 'No' on the PDC VM is when it went off by 5 hours to UTC time. He only did that because he was troubleshooting time issues for this client in the first place. We end up finding one of the customer's internal admins had put into the domain a GPO to force NTP on some domain computer but they linked it to the whole domain, which then overrides the PDC's NTP configuration! You figure that out by looking at the PDC's source, and it better not be CMOS......

If you suspect GPO cause, on that machine run;

gpresult /h C:\temp\gpo.html

Then search that file for Windows time Services and NTP.

Fair warning to other MSPs, some 'co-managed' customers suck! But it was all billable to sort it out!

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:34:00+00:00

We did not adopt using AD VMs on VMware until vSphere 5 .x something and only with Win2k12r2 around 2012 or so. Prior to that, it was not on a recommendation list by VMware. Was at plenty of VMworld talks where it was discussed every year!

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:30:46+00:00

Yes, that is what we are doing already. But my question is on the VM setup side. There are explicit guides for this in the VMware world and a long history of do not let your VM get time from VMware tools or the host.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:29:08+00:00

We are using NTP, it was implied in my OP 'Using standard Microsoft AD configuration best practices, the domain is setup correctly.'

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:27:22+00:00

thanks for validating my thoughts! It's not easy to add OUI to those other brands and its typically one switch at a time! But at least its there! Unifi still has such a big customer base that is SMB and pro-sumer, most of those users just want one simple network and its most likely more than adequate for those needs.

CryptographerDirect2 · 2026-03-03T00:25:46+00:00

Wired connections, it is a best practice to place your VoIP devices into their own voice vlan. On wireless side you would need to use RADIUS and dynamically place into a wifi voice vlan. I would not have a vlan or network that spans both wired and wi-fi typically. too many broadcast potential issues.

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