by vMan | Apr 9, 2019 | Monitoring, NSX, Powershell, vRops
Have you ever needed to collect data from SSH and push it into vRops because it cannot be collected any other way? well if so this next post is for you…. in this example I will collect data from net-stats and push it into vRops. I had a request come through from...
by vMan | Apr 2, 2019 | vCenter, vRO, vRops
So this is a quick one for those of you following the Management-Pack-for-vRealize-Orchestration-Guide-v2.0.pdf to configure the solution. If you do not use vRO in your environment and will use it exclusively with vRops, you will need to follow section “Add a...
by vMan | Mar 28, 2019 | Random, vRops, vSAN
So this next post is to expand on Sunny Dua’s “Automatically place ESXi hosts in maintenance in vROps using properties” blog post. I have been using a similar method in my own environment for some time but with a slight twist…. For example I...
by vMan | Feb 4, 2019 | NSX, Random, vRops
Recently we migrated 1000’s of servers to multiple 4 vCPU ESG’s… after cutting over gateways from legacy physical devices we started to get 100% CPU usage alerts (ahhh!!) when SSHing to the edge we would only see 2-3% CPU usage being reported in the...
by vMan | Oct 1, 2018 | Powershell
To the Vembu users / Windows admins in the world! … and for those of you that have not used Vembu check out their site, they recently announced reasonable pricing for small businesses and it’s a nice backup solution for SME in my opinion! So to cut to...
by vMan | Aug 9, 2018 | Powershell, vCenter, vRops
If you have ever needed to insert custom metrics (stats) into a vRops object this next post is for you! I needed to extract some metrics from vCenter for host NIC’s which are not available in vRops by default…. so I built this powershell script to extract...
by vMan | Jun 24, 2018 | Lab, VMware
So for those of you wanting to use this card as a cheap solution for the #homelab it’s obvious that it a not supported based on the compatibility list on vmware website… (I can confirm it does not work and community drivers do not exist for it esxi 6.5)...
by vMan | Jun 15, 2018 | Infoblox, Powershell
by vMan | Jun 13, 2018 | Powershell, Runecast, VMware
So this next post provides a Powershell script to extract data from the Runecast API, I use this to extract data on a scheduled basis for use within other dashboards / tools. So your next question might be… but why would you want to do that?? the GUI already...
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