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: https://peppercrew.nl/2011/04/get-virtual-machine-bios-serial-number/. This post contains a PowerShell function to convert a…
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 datastores. Looking at the datastores in vCenter, they couldn’t find…
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 names like: Recently I was working with a colleague who…
This post will cover loading some test data into our MongoDB instance and generating some queries for performance monitoring. In previous posts we covered creating a MongoDB replica set (here) and configuring the Aria Operations Management Pack for MongoDB (here). Reviewing the MongoDB website, there is a good article about…
In a previous post (here), I covered how to setup a MongoDB replica set to be monitored by Aria Operations in a vSphere based lab. This article will cover the installation & configuration of the Aria Operations Management Pack for MongoDB. The article will be divided into three sections: Installing…