Follow the following steps to add specific user and group access to a single ESXi host: Configure a single group, be it AD (remote) or Local. Add user to the above group. Login to the VCSA (vSphere Client). Select the ESXi host.  Click on the Permissions tab. Click on the + icon.  You will be […]

Getting a rather cryptic ESXi error message when trying to set a new IPv4 IP: Enable Management Network: Error Setting ip/ipv6 configuration failed: For example, when trying to set 10.3.0.12, this is what is seen: It doesn't really, really say what the real reason behind the error is.  Taking a dive into the network configuration […]

In case the below error is seen: C:\Users\tom>nslookup josh-vm01.nix.mds.xyz 10.5.0.1 Server:  UnKnown Address:  10.5.0.1 *** No internal type for both IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses (A+AAAA) records available for josh-vm01.nix.mds.xyz The fix for this is to enable Setup -> Networking -> Optional DNS Target then fill in the target DNS server, in this case 192.168.0.100 for our […]

While establishing an OpenVPN connection, the internal IP's are able to ping yet the external IP's are not, the issue might be with packet NAT from tun to vlan2 interfaces.  Note below there are NO replies: root@DD-WRT-KHUFU:/jffs/etc/openvpn# tcpdump -na -s0 -i tun2 icmp tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v[v]… for full protocol decode listening on […]