NSX Edge CPU usage Super Metric for 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...

Vembu BDR Essentials and accessing the Vembu API!

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...

vRops – Custom Network stats for HostSystems

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...

ASUS XG-C100C with esxi

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)...

vCenter 6.7 HA

very simple post!!! so for those of you like me fortunate enough to have vCenter HA go tits up… I was reading the out of date documentation from VMware and couldn’t figure out why it was not working…. vCenter bash: destroy-vcha: command not found it...