In previous article at Runecast.biz I’ve described a use case for consuming the Runecast Analyzer REST API from vRO to remediate specific KB. It’s a valid option, but I felt there was too much overhead – adding REST endpoint, adding REST operation, taking care of each request and parsing the… Continue reading
Good Sys Admin is the lazy Sys Admin. Step by step IT automation is making its way in our daily activities and I like to use it as much as possible. Saving time and reducing human errors are obvious advantages, but I also like to watch how the magic happens.… Continue reading
This article covers a scenario where you need to point and work with vAPI endpoint entirely with JavaScript. It wasn’t as flawless as I expected and I spent quite some time to figure it out. Let’s jump in. A while back Angel Iliev wrote 2 very detailed articles covering vAPI… Continue reading
When it comes to automation and further customization of the vRA managed VMs we can’t overlook the vRA 7.x Event Broker. It gives us the opportunity to trigger a vRO workflow when one or multiple conditions are met. In most use cases the information regarding the object that triggers the… Continue reading
Monitoring VM performance is important part of managing virtual infrastructure. There are many tools out there to help on that matter, but very often I find myself going via the performance charts of a certain virtual machine looking for something that can cause performance penalties. To get sufficient overview, usually… Continue reading
Having the appropriate access levels assigned to each user or group helps mitigate the security concerns as well as lowers the risk of human error. You certainly don’t want people other than VMware admins to mess with hosts, clusters, virtual switches or the storage. There are some predefined Roles which… Continue reading
In a data center migration project the storage teams as well as the target VMware team were constantly requesting information for the VMs in each migration group. Along with the basic VM info such as vCPUs, memory, provisioned space, guest OS, they required more details for the VMDKs – datastore,… Continue reading
Recently I had situation where a few misconfigured VMs were not able to be migrated to any of the other hosts in the cluster, which came as a surprise during our maintenance window. This made me want to be a step ahead and minimize unplanned troubleshooting for future. If you… Continue reading
