I was recently working on an issue where a query in Aria Operations for Logs was not returning an event that I really expected to be present. After a bit of troubleshooting, I found that the ESXi host was sending the logs to syslog, but a firewall was preventing the…
I’ve been looking for a good reason to try out the Aria Operations Management Pack Builder, ever since a peer of mine built one for Pi-Hole back in early 2023. One thing that I thought would be of particular interest was tracking the power consumption of my lab. This article…
I was recently looking at some virtual machines in a lab and trying to determine which had encrypted virtual disks vs. encrypted configuration folders only. This data is visible in the vSphere UI. From the VM list view we can select the ‘pick columns’ icon in the lower left near…
I’ve recently had a couple of questions around automated reporting or changes to the vCenter Server SSO Domain. I’ve seen mention of the VMware.vSphere.SsoAdmin PowerCLI module, but haven’t had a need to dig into it. This post will explore a couple of things that can be achieved with this module.…
In my home network, I have a Raspberry Pi4 which provides DNS (pi-hole) and NTP (chrony). Its a device that I don’t touch often and is a ‘production’ type service — in my lab I don’t mind blowing up / breaking things… but this device needs to be stable. If…