In my home network, I have a Raspberry Pi4 which provides DNS (pi-hole) and NTP (chrony). Its a device that I don’t touch often and is a ‘production’ type service — in my lab I don’t mind blowing up / breaking things… but this device needs to be stable. If…
As part of routine maintenance, it is sometimes necessary to take an Aria Operations cluster offline. For example, it is recommended to take the cluster offline to perform backups (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/8.12/Best-Practices-Operations/GUID-1D058B4A-93BA-44D1-8794-AE8E1B96B3E4.html). Since most folks want to schedule backups, it is important to be able to leverage automation to take the cluster…
I’ve recently been testing a handful of reporting tools against vCenter Server endpoints. I have several lab instances for various major releases, which allow me to test a wide range of configurations. However, there are some tests that are hard to simulate, like what if a cluster has 100 hosts,…
In a recent security advisory (VMSA-2024-0013), there is a workaround listed for hosts older than ESXi 8.0u3 (https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/369707). This knowledge base article lists a few advanced settings and an esxcli command which can be ran to apply this workaround. Setting advanced settings and invoking esxcli are two things that PowerCLI…
I was recently helping troubleshoot an issue where a service account was configured with the least privileges possible. When the service attempted to perform a specific operation, an access denied message was encountered. The service performing this action immediately cleaned up after itself, deleting the virtual machine that was created.…