vSAN Error: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x00000089b916ed00] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _po Error: 503 Service Unavailable (Failed to connect to endpoint: [N7Vmacore4Http16LocalServiceSpecE:0x000000a63051bb30] _serverNamespace = / action = Allow _port = 8309) You have vSAN and have restarted your ESXi host. Everything boots up and appears normal, but when you…
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Cloud Gaming: Effortlessly Passthrough keyboard and mouse to Virtual Machine. Enjoy the latency-free gaming experience.
I have enjoyed gaming over VMware Horizon for a few months, and I had a minor issue with the keyboard and mouse. From time to time, during the most critical gaming times when I am fighting, I trigger the macOS keyboard and mouse shortcuts. Here are just a few examples: + Resizing Horizon Client Window…

True Surround Sound with VMware Horizon
I have enjoyed gaming over VMware Horizon for a few months, and I thought it was time to push the limits further. Would I be able to get True Surround Sound or Dolby Atmos, and how would it make a difference in games? Before, I used Philips FW-M55 as my Mac Mini M1 speakers. My…

vExpert Home Lab Gift 2022-NUC the most practical and helpful gift.
All vExperts who signed up at the right time received a NUC as a gift to help them out with Home Labbing and their career, and definitely, this NUC will pass the wife’s approval factor. Corey and Eric, needed to go the extra mile to make it happen, and Cohesity sponsored the gift. Thank you…

Cloud Gaming: What’s it like playing the most graphically demanding games inside a VM using Horizon Direct-Connect? Can it replace bare-metal gaming PCs?
This holiday took a different route from what I had planned on. I was planning to learn vCloud Directory and NSX, and heading off to visit some other countries. I was mentally tired from work, and I felt like dead person, but I came across topic so interesting that I could not let go before…

Nvidia Tesla K80+ vSphere 7 U3+ Horizon + W11- Complete Installation and Setup Guide for Gaming
eBook- VMware vSphere 7 U3 + Horizon + Nvidia Tesla K80+ W11 VMware vSphere 7 + Horizon+ Nvidia Tesla K80 + Complete Installation and Setup Guide for Gaming My Blog Post: Cloud Gaming: What’s it like playing the most graphically demanding games inside a VM using Horizon Direct-Connect? Can it replace bare-metal gaming PCs? I…
Nested ESXi on Top of a vSAN Datastore
To run a nested ESXi on top of vSAN, you have to make a quick hack. Thanks again to William Lam, who figured it out. Here is the copy from his blog post and a direct link to the post:

ESXTOP Is Not Displaying Properly on macOS Big Sur Terminal
ESXTOP is displaying interactive UI as CSV output. Type “TERM=xterm “and done Make it permanent. Terminal > Preferences. Under Profiles> Advanced If you want to display what the current terminal declaration type is, use “echo $TERM”

100G QSFP28 Home Lab (Home Micro Data Center) Speed Test- Phase 1
So, I rebuilt my home lab, re-installed my ESXi servers, set up vSAN, vMotion, and so on. 100Gb QSFP28 Speed Test Between ESXi Hosts I have been waiting so long to discover the actual performance with 100Gb NICs. William Lam told me that iPerf3 is included with ESXi. I just enabled SSH on each host….