This is an update for ESXi 8 in the “consumer NVMe SSD not being recognized since ESXi 6.7U1” series. Just like previous versions, several consumer NVMe controllers are having problems being recogn...

For the full release notes, please see the table of contents to the right or scroll down. My Tesla Model S was one of the first to arrive in Europe in 2013 and is now almost 9 years of age. I boug...

In Europe, the price for electricity is going through the roof, peaking at rates of €0,90/kWh in The Netherlands. Suddenly, using appliances everyone took for granted are pushing up the bills by hu...

Introduction In the last blog post (Fujitsu Waterstage home automation/domotica) I talked about monitoring my Fujitsu Waterstage using the BSB-LAN appliance. This post will explain the specifics on...

Introduction About three years ago our house was fitted with a Fujitsu Waterstage heat pump and boiler for central heating and domestic hot water (DHW). This allowed us to go electric only and clos...

Hello everyone! Welcome to my new platform, Matts’ Tech Info! On this website I will update you on all kinds of things I run into during the day. This can be anything related to my work with VMware...

Looking for ESXi 8 instructions? Please go to this new post! This is a quick revisit of two older posts that have been extremely popular and found by most visitors of my blog coming from all o...

Earlier this year I ran into problems with consumer SSD’s not being recognized in ESXi 6.7U1 and higher due to a change in the NVMe driver that had to do with NVMe 1.3 specification. See the old po...

In my homelab I try to use as little electricity as possible, not just because I live in The Netherlands and electricity is expensive, mostly because the house I live in is (climate/CO2) neutral an...

Although the resource figures and versions mentioned in this tutorial are outdated, the rest of the information is still true today. Introduction So, you’ve decided to get going with VMware ES...