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Category Archives: Lab Infrastructure
Automating SSL Certificate Replacement with the Aria Suite Lifecycle API
Someone recently asked me if there was an API to replace the Aria Operations for Logs SSL certificate programmatically. In this case, Aria Suite Lifecycle was already deployed and used to manage multiple Aria Operations for Logs clusters, primarily used … Continue reading
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Unlocking the Power of Metric-Based Search in Aria Operations
When managing a large, virtualized environment, finding objects in Aria Operations can be challenging, especially when you don’t know the object name. Metric-based search, a feature introduced in Aria Operations 8.12, allows you to search for objects based on their … Continue reading
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How I Doubled My Homelab CPU Capacity for $200: Xeon Gold 6230 Upgrade
In this post, I’ll walk you through how I solved a growing CPU bottleneck issue in my homelab by upgrading the CPUs in my Dell Precision 7920. I’ll share the process, challenges, and cost-effective solution that allowed me to double … Continue reading
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Getting Started with Bruno: A Beginner’s Guide to Simplifying API Interactions
I’ve recently been working with APIs more than ever. A colleague recently introduced me to Bruno, an offline, open-source API client. For the most part, I had been interacting with APIs using swagger UIs in product or with PowerShell’s Invoke-RestMethod. … Continue reading
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Are my ESXi hosts sending syslog to Aria Operations for Logs?
I was recently working on an issue where a query in Aria Operations for Logs was not returning an event that I really expected to be present. After a bit of troubleshooting, I found that the ESXi host was sending … Continue reading
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