Category Archives: Virtualization

Monitoring MongoDB Enterprise using LDAP Authentication

Posted on August 4, 2024 by brian.wuchner

I had a recent need to dig into MongoDB monitoring with Aria Operations. In those posts, I used a preconfigured Bitnami MongoDB virtual appliance. This virtual appliance used MongoDB Community Edition. As a follow-up, I was looking into if it … Continue reading →

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

Posted on July 20, 2024 by brian.wuchner

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

Posted on July 19, 2024 by brian.wuchner

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 and VM UUID

Posted on June 18, 2024 by brian.wuchner

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

Posted on May 26, 2024 by brian.wuchner

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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