When I was advocating for vRealize Automation while in my previous role, a frequent question I was asked by application owners was: "Can I auto scale my application, like <insert cloud provider here> allows me to?" This question often lead to defensive responses on my part.

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Not long ago I decided to retire a vCenter from my lab - but I didn't retire the VCSA properly, leaving its linked mode partners with an error. While there is a KB for this, I wanted to share some notes on my experience. The key piece of information that you need is the Primary Network Identifier of the …

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Today we will be reviewing the workflow package used to handle all of the aspects of this automated process. We will be leveraging several built workflows and actions, a set of community sourced workflows, and a simple workflow that stitches them together. The other posts in this series can be found below: Day Two …

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I am migrating my blog to hugo. I did a fair amount of debugging on my local system, but with the age of some of the early posts, and this now being the second major migration: home grown blog software -> Wordpress -> Hugo, I fully expect some amount of stuff to be weird. Im going to simply take the approach of …

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Last time we laid out the general approach of our automation framework. Today we will be completing some of the per-requisite technical tasks to enable vROPS to apply a layer of governance and detection to our framework. The other posts in this series can be found below: Day Two Automation Self Service Framework – …

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In my years on the administration and engineering side of the VMware world a task I was frequently responsible for was creating policies around the standards of my environment and then defining a process to ensure those policies were adhered to.  Some examples of the policies I authored was things around snapshot …

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I recently spent a lot of time digging into the question of “How do I enable a PKI signed cert on the vROPS vPostgreSQL database to make my security team happy?”  As I often do, I started my journey with a simple google search: “vrops vpostgres ssl“.  This search lead me to the helpful page: Enabling TLS on Localhost …

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Over the last month or so I have had two customers inquire about vROPS’s ability to perform cross-cluster storage vmotions in order to enforce business intent or multi-cluster workload optimization. Being the eager wet-behind the ear SE that I am, I set it up in my lab with some vSAN datastores and it worked! Success! …

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You may be arriving here having expected some different content. Perhaps you arrived expecting some content related to triathlon, only to be surprised by IT related content – sorry for that! For many years I have “maintained” three blogs, which means three instances of the blog software and content related to it. I …

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Last week I had an unfortunate experience; I ignored the expiration warning of a bunch of nested ESXi hosts and allowed the license to expire. Rather then logging into a bunch of individual hosts to apply a key, I wrote a quick script that will connect to vCenter, ensure all the licenses are the correct one, and then …

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