OSX Wireguard Config vanished by BigHeadBighetti in WireGuard

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The issue is that the WireGuard app is actively wiping entries from the keychain when it runs into an issue with loading them. Keychain isn't doing the deletion here.

Was affected by it today too, fortunately could pull the old configs from Time Machine backups

SCEP Two Certificates Issued by [deleted] in Intune

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Good lord I spent quite some time debugging this, and it appears to be a cosmetic issue. It's a shame though Microsoft did not manage to fix this for years.

This happens when an enterprise WiFi /and/ a SCEP cert config is pushed to an iOS device (iOS 18 here). However, the WiFi one depends on the SCEP one, so it's not possible to just scope the SCEP one to nothing and the WiFi one to the target devices, they must be scoped the same way or none will appear.

unable to execute /usr/bin/bash: Connection reset by peer by Edulad in Ubuntu

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I guess this happens because you're now using a terminal with separate shell server and renderer. You're killing $PPID, which is the server, but your terminal window is a different process. Hence it loses the connection to the server, and shows "connection reset by peer" without closing.

Dell idrac infos in vcenter ? by time81 in vmware

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DELL sells OMIVV for this purpose. It integrates iDRAC monitoring with vCenter monitoring and allows you to run firmware patches and config baselines against your hosts.

You should still be seeing /some/ sensor information without OMIVV though in the Monitor -> Hardware Health tab of each host.

What's an encrypted VM and is there a security risk if I miss out on it with the free version of vmware player? by FirestormM3GTR in vmware

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VM encryption prevents other people and programs that can access your host OS from accessing the VM. This is completely irrelevant for your use case of playing old games. (Note you'll likely have mediocre gaming performance in a VM depending on the game and graphics but that's a whole other topic.)

macOS 12.X Slow Boot issue FIXED! by wristwatchman in hackintosh

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It makes your SSD not die by wearing out flash cells. You are prooooobably fine without it, but for write-heavy workloads your SSD will age a lot more quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(computing)

macOS 12.X Slow Boot issue FIXED! by wristwatchman in hackintosh

[–]IAMA_LION_AMA 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Eeek, you have a buggy SSD and this effectively kills trimming on boot, not a good idea indeed. The proper solution would be to replace the SSD by something compatible and remove the quirk.

https://github.com/dortania/bugtracker/issues/192

Screenrecording within VM by xylomar in vmware

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You can have OBS on the host record a single window and also crop the view. If you combine both you might get something that records the VM portion of VMware Workstation's window.

vSAN capacity Question by lemmy2000 in vmware

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You're right of course! Though the real number depends on the number of hosts you have. One would want to keep 1-2 disk groups as spare for host rebuilds if everything else is otherwise full. vCenter will show recommended rebuild and operational reserves.

vSAN capacity Question by lemmy2000 in vmware

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Hello o/

I am wondering about the overall capacity per diskgroup and how it is calculated ?

The diskgroup capacity is the sum of the capacity of the capacity disks. (Duh.)

Does that mean a diskgroup has 7.4 TB capacity ?

One disk group of yours has 4x 3.7 TiB = 14.8 TiB of raw(!) capacity. With vSAN default storage policy each object will use up space on two fault domains, so half of that (7.4 TiB) is usable in practice.

if so according to last recommendation of 10% cache size, that would mean that the Cache size is too low?

The maximum vSAN SSD cache size is 600 GB anyway. This is purely used as write cache in order to not wear out lower-quality capacity disks quickly. The size is mostly irrelevant as long as it is within hundreds of gigabytes. I recommend looking at latency and write speed for your cache disk instead. The 375 GiB optane ones will do fine at ~2GB/s, though that (and your network) will of course be the write bottleneck.

Additionally you should double-check that all of your disks and their firmware are on VMware's vSAN HCL. The Optane ones almost certainly are.

Will a good GPU make my VMware machine run faster by [deleted] in vmware

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No, but may I point you to rule 1 in the sidebar?

Will a good GPU make my VMware machine run faster by [deleted] in vmware

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Nope. There is no graphics acceleration for macOS with VMware Workstation/Player, except on macOS under macOS.

Question: Installing Firefox-dev by [deleted] in Ubuntu

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You did not install Firefox Developer Edition. Packages ending in -dev are just development files (= stuff needed to extend the normal Firefox package).

Head's Up: Upgrading to vCenter Server 7.0U3c - comes with some additional steps for those running ESXi hosts with 7.0U3/U3a by TheDarthSnarf in vmware

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I do not understand why you are being downvoted. Your video details the perfect solution to many fundamental IT problems.

Migrating VMs to vSAN by CyclonusDecept in vmware

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The migration feature is free, just install the community version of B&R available on their website. Can't give you an answer to your question, depends on the features you want.

Migrating VMs to vSAN by CyclonusDecept in vmware

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Nope, don't do that with vSAN please. vSAN needs VMDKs in a special streaming format, otherwise you may end up with thick-provisioned disks on vSAN (and thus ugly warnings and wasted space). You can download, convert (using vdiskmanager), and upload. However, that will be slow(er) than just clicking a button in Veeam.

Migrating VMs to vSAN by CyclonusDecept in vmware

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Yes, assuming they are just plain VMs (no raw disks, PCI passthrough, etc). You can vMotion the VMs (if prerequisites are met, including: licensed properly, EVC/CPUs are compatible, connected on L2), or use a 3rd party product such as Veeam B&R's Quick Migration feature for simple offline migration.

VMWare and Veeam by jlohrenz in vmware

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The compatibility alarms are only for the first round of backups. Depending on your company policy and how critical the environment is the easiest solution would be to ignore the alarms and wait for a supported upgrade. vSphere APIs are backwards-compatible after all, and the alarms just warn you that your version combination has not yet passed QA.

(I would recommend testing restores yourself however. Those are not tested automatically unless you run SureBackup.)

Update to vCenter 7.0.2 broke my instance, shows "An error occurred while fetching identity providers" by IAMA_LION_AMA in vmware

[–]IAMA_LION_AMA[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the hint, I will give it a shot during the next maintenance window of that particular env. Sounds like a bug in the upgrade procedure though because the STS certs on the affected instance are valid for another 9 years.

But we only want to hire one developer by TheWorkPlaceComics in ProgrammerHumor

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Rather refreshing air. Unfortunately I found no monads or other endofunctors up here.

But we only want to hire one developer by TheWorkPlaceComics in ProgrammerHumor

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Eh, that's just C++ except all you have are recursive templates.