Category Archives: Virtualization

Event Driven Automation with Aria Operations for Logs, webhooks, and Jenkins

I was recently looking at the VMware Event Broker Appliance fling (https://vmweventbroker.io/). This fling enables a custom function to execute when a vSphere event happens, sort of an ‘if this then that’ approach to vSphere events (https://octo.vmware.com/vsphere-power-event-driven-automation/). As I was … Continue reading

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PowerCLI Get-TagAssignment and InaccessibleDatastore

I was recently speaking with a customer who mentioned an issue that occurred when using the PowerCLI Get-TagAssignment cmdlet. They had a tag category which applied to clusters only. If a host were offline or in maintenance mode, they were … Continue reading

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Converting between guest OS serial number at VM UUID

A customer recently asked me if it was possible to find a virtual machine BIOS serial number from a virtual machine object or vmx file. While looking into this, I found an old post that provided a very useful hint: … Continue reading

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Finding the real NFS network

I was recently helping a customer who had inherited an existing vSphere deployment that used NFS storage. They were tasked with migrating the old VMs to newer infrastructure, but they first wanted to find the NFS storage array backing the … Continue reading

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Aria Operations Self Health dashboard visibility

In Aria Operations there are several dashboards that are enabled by default to help ensure the Aria Operations environment is healthy. These dashboards are available under Visualize > Dashboards in a folder named VMware Aria Operations. The specific dashboards have … Continue reading

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