Copy all Tags to your DRaaS vCenter
Copy all required tags to your recovery vCenter to bring your DR Plans into compliance
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Script to take hosts out of maintenance mode in vCenter & vROPs
On occasion, I’ve noticed that people can sometimes forget to take a host out of maintenance mode in vROPs after completing some work in vCenter. I have created a short PowerCLI script that will pull a list of hosts from a specified CSV file, connect to your vCenter & vROPs then exit the listed hosts
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Add additional Syslog servers to ESXi hosts
This script proved to be a little more challenging than I had first expected. As you may be aware, simply running Set-VMHostSysLogServer will overwrite your existing configuration which is less than ideal when you’re trying to add a new server to your list. This script will prompt you for a file that will need to
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Create a custom dashboard in vROPs
Creating a dashboard in vRealize Operation Manager has been made significantly easier over the years. Here we will create a simply dashboard that let you choose a cluster and pull up some basic information about it. Go to Dashboards and select Create Dashboard Enter a name for your new dashboard Using the toggle switch at
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Create a custom alert in vROPs
This blog is going to cover the basics of creating a simple alert in vRealize Operations Manager, at a later date i will cover creating a group of objects, an alert and how to add the alert to a policy.For now, lets get started creating an alert for notifying me when a cluster is over
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Creating a view in vROPs
vRealize Operations Manager gives you the ability to take all the data and metrics it has ingested and use that to create smaller, more targeted, visual data for specific objects and metrics for a given time frame. Once created, these can be used independently or as part of dashboards and reports. Below, I will run
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Create a vRLI Custom Alert
If you have read my previous article on creating customer dashboards, you might now be thinking “I’ve defined which logs are important to me but how do I make sure I’m being notified as soon as they happen?”, vRealize Log Insight makes this just as easy to achieve. Simply follow these steps: Go to your
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Create a vRLI Custom Dashboard
Now that you have vRealize Log Insight ingesting all those logs, your next stop is going to be making sense of all that data in a way thats meaningful to you or your service owners. Luckily its very straight forward to create custom dashboards. Create a dashboard, remember to click share if you want other
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vCenter Native Key Provider
One of the exciting new features of vSphere 7U2 is the inclusion of a “Native Key Provider”. This gives you KMS like functionality although it’s only able to serve vSphere itself so if you have other appliances requiring a KMS then you will need to look at a traditional KMS solution such as Dells CloudLink.If
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vSphere 7 Security Configuration Guide Powercli Menu
Following the release of the vSphere 7 Security guide last October, I thought it was about time I updated my PowerCLI script to speed up compliance checking. My vSphere 6.5 guide was reasonably popular so I’m hoping people will find this equally useful! Download Here on Gitlab The script is pretty straightforward and will provide
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