Category Archives: Virtualization

ESXi Datastore Performance Battle: iSCSI vs. NFS on Synology NAS with VAAI

Posted on September 29, 2023 by brian.wuchner

I recently got my hands on a new Synology DS723+ and a couple of 4TB HDD disks for my home lab. My plan is to use this device as a backup target, either as a storage destination for my existing … Continue reading →

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Content Library item validation with Power CLI

Posted on September 5, 2023 by brian.wuchner

Have you ever had a new site come online and want to validate that the items in a subscriber content library are in sync? Or experience some storage issues/corruption and want to make sure your sync’d library is still intact? … Continue reading →

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Aria Automation Internal IPAM reserve / release API

Posted on August 29, 2023 by brian.wuchner

In the May 2023/8.12.1 release notes for Aria Automation, one of the what’s new items was the ability to reserve/unreserve an IP address to make it unavailable/available for deployment. In this release the functionality is supported via API only. This … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 26, 2023 by brian.wuchner

I was recently working with someone who was using vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.10 (now known as Aria Suite Lifecycle) to update vRealize Network Insight from version 6.7 to 6.9 (now known as Aria Operations for Networks). The Product Support … Continue reading →

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Using VI/JSON with Powershell

Posted on June 13, 2023 by brian.wuchner

I recently saw a post on a new feature that is enabled by default in vSphere 8.0u1: https://blogs.vmware.com/code/2023/06/10/introducing-vi-json-a-modern-wire-protocol-for-vsphere-management. The article describes a new JSON-based, REST-like protocol named VI/JSON that allows access to all the familiar SOAP XML properties. It seemed … Continue reading →

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