VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and vSphere Foundation (VVF) Licensing Dashboard
Since the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom, quite a lot has changed when it comes down to licensing your VMware products. Products were discontinued (I’m looking at you SaaS offerings!), perpetual move to subscription based and per CPU changed to Core Based licenses. Not all are due to the overtake, the move to subscription-based licensing…
Aria Operations – What is left for provisioning? – Visualized
Introduction As promised in my last post about resources left for provisioning, here’s one about how to visualize the amount of resources left in your clusters for provisioning. At my customer we have several different policies active on several different clusters with overcommit ratios configured on vCPU and Memory. The previous post explained how to…
Aria Operations – What is left for provisioning?
Introduction At my customers I often get the question how to measure the amount of resources that are still available for VM provisioning. In this case, resources are: We have multiple clusters for multiple purposes and we use Aria Automation (vRA – sorry, couldn’t come up with a better abbreviation yet 😊) to provision workloads.…
VMware VCF – Deployment of new clusters and the impact on NSX-T Transport Zones
At one of our customers we are running a large VMware VCF environment. Due to design decisions taken earlier and some constraints regarding the setup of the NSX Edges, the VCF part of our automated deployment by the SDDC Manager ends after the configuration of the NSX-T Managers and the initial setup of the (default)…
VMware Aria Operations Management Pack Builder stops working after appliance reboot
Today I run into a strange issue where a simple reboot of the MP Builder led to an unreachable MP Builder (UI login page didn’t load). From a network perspective everything looked fine, the machine was reachable and resolvable. The console was responsive as well. Next step was to check whether the docker image running…
vROPS (8.6) disable single alert from a policy
For a customer running VCF on HPE DL380 servers, we are running vROPS to monitor the infra layer. We have been using the webhook function to send higher prio events to a specific MS Teams channel so that the responsible people from the operations teams can action these notifications with priority. Since we have installed…
vMotion (or any other VMkernel) Network-changer
Over the years I have been involved in a lot of workload migrations. Most of them where VM based migrations. A long time ago I have done some storage level migrations and used VMware converter quite often to onboard workloads into a virtualized environment. Nowadays however and with the newer vSphere versions, the majority of…
Lessons learned while using the Cross-VC Migration Fling
While I was working with a customer to migrate some workloads from an old vCenter Server to a new one, I ran across some minor bumps before I could successfully do a migration. So why a migration in the first place? Well, the world basically becomes a bit brighter if you know that the source…
vROPS & vSAN – Per SP capacity usage reporting dashboard – Part 2
Part 1 of this blog post described the use case identification and preparation steps required in vCenter in order to proceed and create some content in vRealize Operations. This post will describe the steps required in vROPS: Create Group Type Create Custom Group and set dynamic membership Create Supermetrics per vSAN policy and include them…
vROPS & vSAN – Per SP capacity usage reporting dashboard – Part 1
Recently I was asked by a customer to provide more insight on vSAN storage policy reporting questions. To be more specific, my customer wanted to know how much space was consumed by each storage profile on their (stretched) vSAN cluster. The cluster was getting rather full and they wanted to see if and how they…