vSAN / VM – Storage Policy report

by | Oct 24, 2017 | Powershell, vCenter, vSAN

So this next post is about my experience with vSAN when using multiple storage policies and the headache that comes with managing a large vSAN environment when you have too many cooks in the kitchen!! The environment I help manage has many clusters with many different...

vRops – vSan DiskGroup Count Super Metric at Host System

by | Oct 20, 2017 | vRops, vSAN

So recently I was asked to create an alert which would help identify hosts with less than 1 DiskGroups…. unfortunately you wont find a vRops metric at the Host System object which counts the number of DiskGroup…. so I had to create a super metric by taking...

vCenter – DRS CPU Over-Commitment Bug or Feature?

by | Sep 1, 2017 | vCenter

Update 23/10/2017!!!@ Apparently this is a feature, not a bug!! lol… me smells some BS… So I recently found a bug with CPU Over-Commitment controls in DRS. Typically if you try to power on a Virtual Machine and its going to exceed the limit you have...

vRops – Automated Workload Balance

by | Jun 14, 2017 | vRops

This feature… along with many others in recent vRops and vCenter releases hits close to home for me… Back in 2015 I raised many requirements with VMware, one of them being Automated Workload balancing and many others…. but to see these...

vRops 6.6 – Custom Rest Notification

by | Jun 14, 2017 | vRops

UPDATE 23/11: I recompiled pierrelx’s plugin for 6.6 and you can find it over at the vRops community forums but forgot to blog about it! ……… original post below For those of you that are interesting in / using the Custom Rest...

vRops appliance – explore postgres DB

by | May 26, 2017 | vRops

This post is a quick and dirt.. I used to use vRops on a Windows server but since VMware no longer support vRops on Windows (as of 6.5) I had to access the postgres DB from my desktop… These instructions explain how to open up the postgres DB config /...

vRops – Custom Rest Notification Plugin

by | May 24, 2017 | Random

In this post I explain how to create an eclipse project out of pierrelx custom REST Notification plugin in case you need a slightly modified version of his plugin! I compared his code to the standard REST plugin and it appears he did what I am about to...