I was recently testing an application and wanted to see how it would behave if its connection to vCenter Server was interrupted. Would the process auto-recover? Would I need to restart a service? To find out, I simulated a connection failure using the built-in firewall on Photon OS. This type…
While troubleshooting a vCenter issue, I needed to replicate an environment where the vCenter Server had no internet access. This scenario is often seen in production but can be tricky to reproduce in a lab. This post will outline how I solved the issue quickly using incorrect default gateways and…
Last year I shared a series of posts walking through how to set up and monitor MongoDB with Aria Operations. For reference, here are those articles: When I originally created those posts, Mongo DB had not yet added support for Ubuntu 24.04, so I used Ubuntu 20.04, as I had…
Managing snapshots in vSphere environments is a task that folks have dealt with for years. I remember one of my first PowerCLI scripts was one that sent email notifications for snapshots over a week old to review and manually clean them up. In this post we’ll walk through one way…
I recently set out to configure the open-source Telegraf agent on a physical system in my lab, with the goal of sending telemetry data to Aria Operations. The process for setting this up is documented here: https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/aria/aria-operations/8-18/vmware-aria-operations-configuration-guide-8-18/connect-to-data-sources/monitoring-applications-and-os-using-open-source-telegraf/monitoring-applications-using-open-source-telegraf/monitoring-applications-using-open-source-telegraf-on-a-linux-platform-saas-onprem.html. Since most of my lab systems are virtualized, the only physical candidate available…