PowerCLI 13.3 was recently released (https://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI/2024/07/introducing-powercli-13-3.html). This release has a handful of really good features that we’ll explore below. vSphere modules updated to vSphere 8.0U3 The vSphere modules in PowerCLI 13.3 have been updated to support vSphere 8.0U3 features. One of the 8.0U3 features I was interested in automating was…
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 were possible to use an active directory user for monitoring…
In a prior post (https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/scripting/event-driven-automation-with-aria-operations-for-logs-webhooks-and-jenkins/), I wrote about using Aria Operations for Logs to call Jenkins using a webhook to automate a process. In that post, Aria Operations for Logs is watching for a specific vSphere event and when that occurs (VM deleted), we check a couple other systems (Active…
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 reading through the documentation, I began to wonder if I…
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 getting an error that a local datastore was not accessible.…