by vMan | Nov 26, 2016 | vCenter
UPDATE 11/03/2017: This issue has been patched with vCenter 6.5b, just search for “pk_vpx_vm_virtual_device”. and you will find the details. If you face this issue in PROD and are not willing to try the fix below just contact VMware Support for help. They...
by vMan | Nov 8, 2016 | vRops
So this next post came about after someone asked me how to remove / roll back the custom properties / attributes which I had posted about. After reaching out to VMware and confirming that no option exists in the GUI or via the suite-api to delete custom...
by vMan | Nov 6, 2016 | Powershell
I came across this great post for those wantig to learn PowerCLI and thought I would share it… Enjoy vMan
by vMan | Nov 5, 2016 | Powershell, vRops
This post is for a user over at the VMware Community vRops forums, basically the request was for a report which would give he or she the top 10 VM’s by IOPS over 24h for each datastore. I developed and tested this on vRops 6.3 By using the suite-api this script...
by vMan | Oct 11, 2016 | Security, vRops
I discovered a new unknown vulnerability in vRops 6.3 on my home lab, this allowed me to obtain the Administrator role from a lower non privileged role… I informed VMware which were very responsive and patched the bug, the announcement from VMWare can be...
by vMan | Oct 11, 2016 | Powershell, vRops
Here is a quick script I wrote to pull the relationship’s for an object by name from the suite-api… which is exported to a CSV file. To run the script, provide the vRops address, the pre-stored credentials and the name of the resource you...
by vMan | Oct 3, 2016 | NSX
So I found some good, simple VMware NSX videos on youtube and thought I would share them…. a lot of the time it’s VMware marketing stuff… but these actually have some good step by step examples. The videos are by the NSX engineer...
by vMan | Sep 26, 2016 | NSX, Powershell, vCenter, vRops
For those of you which couldn’t make it to VMworld 2016 (like myself) check out some of the presentations / videos… Full List of videos here Some of the interesting ones for vRops: MGT7924 – vRealize Operations Capacity Explained MGT7718 –...
by vMan | Sep 25, 2016 | Powershell, vRops
So this post is to help someone over at the vRops vmware communities, they wanted to dump all reports from vRops via the Suite-API so i wrote them a little script to help them on their way… used in conjunction with my first...
by vMan | Sep 23, 2016 | NSX, Powershell
I just wrote a little function to get out Flow Stats out of NSX … hopefully this might be useful to someone else. If you appreciated the function, please check out a few of the sponsored Ad’s to help with my hosting Function GetNSXFlow([String]$SearchObj,...
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