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January 19, 2026 | Homelab, Linux, VCF, VMware | No Comments
Greetings, so today we will be linking the VCF Installer with the Offline Depot Once you have deployed the VCF Installer and deployed and set up the Offline Depot, the next steps will be to setup the VCF Installer to download the binaries from the Offline Depot. This configuration assumes that you are operating an […]
Greetings, today we will be deploying the VCF Installer So to start, the VCF Installer OVA will need to be downloaded, this will require a Broadcom account and the appropriate license entitlement. Link to the download: https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productfiles?displayGroup=VMware%20Cloud%20Foundation%209&release=9.0.1.0&os=&servicePk=534266&language=EN&groupId=534924&viewGroup=true At the time of this article being written, it would be this download OVA for 9.0.1.0.24962180 Deploy OVA […]
December 29, 2025 | Homelab, Linux, VCF, VMware | No Comments
Greetings, today we will be deploying an Photon Linux Offline Depot for VCF This was done using Aaron Rombaut’s and the Broadcom KB articles. https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vcf/vcf-9-0-and-later/9-0/deployment/deploying-a-new-vmware-cloud-foundation-or-vmware-vsphere-foundation-private-cloud-/preparing-your-environment/downloading-binaries-to-the-vcf-installer-appliance/connect-to-an-offline-depot-to-download-binaries/set-up-an-offline-depot-web-server-for-vmware-cloud-foundation.html To start, you will need to download the Photon OS from the following link. I will be using the OVA with visual hardware v15 version. https://github.com/vmware/photon/wiki/Downloading-Photon-OS I will be downloading […]
December 22, 2025 | ADCS, Certificate Services, Certificate Template, Microsoft | No Comments
Greetings, today we are going to modify the Default Policy Group Policy Object to set domain member computers to automatically request a machine certificate. This assumes you already have a Domain and Certificate Services setup and ready to use for this. If you need to setup your domain or certificate services still, please refer to […]
December 13, 2025 | ADCS, Certificate Services, Certificate Template, Homelab, Microsoft, VCF, VMware | No Comments
Greetings, this time we are going to be creating a Certificate Template for VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA). This would allow you to use VMCA to issue certificates for your VMware environment. This is based on the following article: Creating a Microsoft Certificate Authority Template for SSL certificate creation in vSphere Open Certificate Authority Select Certificate […]
December 1, 2025 | ESXi, ESXi 7, ESXi 7 CLI Update, Homelab, VMware | No Comments
Greetings, today we will be updating ESXi 7 to a newer version of 7 using command line and no vCenter. In this case 7.0.3d to 7.0.3w. Note: All VMs running on the host should be powered off, or vmotioned to another host if there is a vCenter available. To start we will need to have […]
December 1, 2025 | Homelab, Microsoft, VCF, VMware | No Comments
Greetings, today we are going to be setting up an Offline Depot using Windows and IIS. This is going to assume you have already deployed an Windows Server. You will want an additional drive added with 1TB of space for current and future downloads. You will need: 1TB added drive. If your limited on space, […]
November 28, 2025 | ADCS, Certificate Services, Certificate Template, Homelab, Microsoft, VCF, VMware | No Comments
Greetings, this time we are going to be creating a Certificate Template for VMware services. This is based on the following article: Creating a Microsoft Certificate Authority Template for SSL certificate creation in vSphere Open Certificate Authority Select Certificate Authority Expand Root-CA01, then right-click Certificate Templates and select Manage Right-click Web Server and select Duplicate […]
November 27, 2025 | ADCS, Certificate Services, Homelab, Microsoft | No Comments
Now that we have IIS installed on our CA Server, it’s time to setup a certificate for HTTPS connections Login, click the Start Menu and type certlm.msc. You can also right-click start and select Run to do the same. Expand Personal and then click on Certificates. Notice there is only the Root-CA’s Cert here, we […]
November 26, 2025 | ADCS, Certificate Services, Homelab, Microsoft, VCF | No Comments
Today we are going to be setting up a Certificate Server for the new domain in my home lab. This is part of the systematic rebuild of the lab so that I can write these articles to document the process to potentially help others and for a record of my own on the next rebuild. […]