Author Archives: brian.wuchner

MongoDB on Ubuntu: Replica Sets, LDAP, and Aria Operations

Posted on August 25, 2025 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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Simplify Snapshot Management with VCF Operations

Posted on July 19, 2025 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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Monitoring a Raspberry Pi with Telegraf and Aria Operations

Posted on June 13, 2025 by brian.wuchner

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 … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Up Orphaned Tag Associations in vCenter

Posted on June 7, 2025 by brian.wuchner

I was recently made aware of a KB article titled “Tag associations are not removed from vCenter Server database when associated objects are removed or deleted” (https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=344960). The article includes a script that removes orphaned tag assignments left behind in … Continue reading →

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Centralized Startup Scripting for Automated VM Load Testing

Posted on May 27, 2025 by brian.wuchner

When building or troubleshooting infrastructure, it is often useful to simulate high CPU or memory usage withou deploying full production workloads. To assist with this, I previously created a few purpose built, like cpubusy.sh and memfill.sh. Historically, I created multiple … Continue reading →

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