finally after fiddling for sometime with PHP (barebones no framework 😥ðŸ˜), and Django REST APIs with React FrontEnd SPAs , I've decided to take the plunge into "realtime" web frameworks, and encouraged by some friends i am taking a look to Elixir and its woenderfull "Framework" Phoenix. I'll be programming a chat for my Library management app Dedalos, and Iĺl be posting the advance reports in this blog and on the project github. Wish me luck. See you soon.
Monday, May 4, 2020
Thursday, March 31, 2016
VMWare Esxi problems with Not Suported Hardware , A Solution.
Hi There,
Recently I had a problem with an ASUS RS700-E7-RS4-C Server , for porpuses of VM Migration a NIC setup with 4 NICs was needed. The ones I had at hand were TPLink Model TG-3468 1GBit PCIXPress NICs which use a RTL8168/8169 Realtek chipset . The problem with this is that VMWare mantains a HCL (Hardware Compatibility List ), and the card model was not in it. First solution I searched the web and found this article that allows me to insert drivers into VMWare original ISO
where they recommend using this tool ESXi Customizer which basically is a powershell script that uses VMWare PowerCLI tool to insert drivers and utilities and build a customized ISO from VMWare repos. So far so good, but after I Installed the hypervisor and the server found the Realtek based NICs I faced another problem , when trying to add the host to my Vcenter ,
Once I checked the vpxd.log I saw this
and you can easily see that is an SSL problem, the fact is that VMWare disabled SSLv3 to protect against the POODLE vulnerability.
Well after 3 or 4 failed attempts to fix this (enabling SSLv3 was not an option), I reread the article and noticed that there was a second approach to the problem and was to use in original OLD VMWare 5.5 ISO to install add it to the VCenter Server and later using the esxcli tools provided from within the ssh shell in the hypervisor add the Realtek Drivers.
Here are the Steps to intsall the drivers.
And here the result.
Well I hope this helps if you find yourselves facing the same problem. Have a Happy Day.
Recently I had a problem with an ASUS RS700-E7-RS4-C Server , for porpuses of VM Migration a NIC setup with 4 NICs was needed. The ones I had at hand were TPLink Model TG-3468 1GBit PCIXPress NICs which use a RTL8168/8169 Realtek chipset . The problem with this is that VMWare mantains a HCL (Hardware Compatibility List ), and the card model was not in it. First solution I searched the web and found this article that allows me to insert drivers into VMWare original ISO
where they recommend using this tool ESXi Customizer which basically is a powershell script that uses VMWare PowerCLI tool to insert drivers and utilities and build a customized ISO from VMWare repos. So far so good, but after I Installed the hypervisor and the server found the Realtek based NICs I faced another problem , when trying to add the host to my Vcenter ,
Once I checked the vpxd.log I saw this
and you can easily see that is an SSL problem, the fact is that VMWare disabled SSLv3 to protect against the POODLE vulnerability.
Well after 3 or 4 failed attempts to fix this (enabling SSLv3 was not an option), I reread the article and noticed that there was a second approach to the problem and was to use in original OLD VMWare 5.5 ISO to install add it to the VCenter Server and later using the esxcli tools provided from within the ssh shell in the hypervisor add the Realtek Drivers.
Here are the Steps to intsall the drivers.
And here the result.
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