We needed a way to check if the VAMI file level backups of our vCenters and PSC’s have succeeded or not so i went ahead and started searching for a way to Alert on failed backups and make dashboards of Failed and Completed backups. This is the Query i came up with to check if…
I have made a simple query in Log Insight to alert and or dashboard when HA and or DRS gets disabled/enabled. Just very basic but a nice to have!
I ran into an issue with my homelab where i tried to run some simple restmethods with powershell but offcourse my homelab does not have decent certificates (why should i even bother :)) So i tried to find a workaround and found this simple piece of code: After reading through all of this information i…
Taking a look at doing things with REST API’s instead of Powershell and eventually bringing it back to powershell brought me all this usefull information. Using Postman is essential to get your REST calls converted to any language you need: https://www.postman.com/ As you can see in the screenshots i have taken a rest call and…
I went searching the internet for a way to get the VIB versions of all hosts within specific clusters and ended up with a nice piece of code. This is what the output looks like: Just a nice little piece of easy to use code to get information of your environment!
I came across a really helpfull page of how to troubleshoot vsan performance and all the steps you might need to understand whats happening in your environment and most importantly how to mitigate performance issues. https://core.vmware.com/resource/troubleshooting-vsan-performance#_Toc536646851 Also very helpfull tools are IO Insight which was added to vSphere 7 Update 1 and IO Trip Analyzer…
Today i ran into an issue where i found that the notifications list in vROPS was coming up empty with an error message that dissapeared very quikly : I made a support request with vmware and after some troubles with the root passwords and expiration issues we quickly went to troubleshooting the actual issue. We…
