ViewVmEvents is a python script that can be used to view a specific event related to a VMware virtual machine. The events type can be one of the following: Reboot, Shutdown or Standby. I was experimenting with the Pyvmomi SDK for the VMware vSphere API, on how I can quickly view a virtual machine event without going
A lot of things can cause this behavior, in my case, when I tried to create a Fabric Groups, the compute resources didn’t show! The logs in vRealize Automation appliance (v7.0.1) show the following error in Infrastructure => Monitoring => Log: This exception was caught: The attached endpoint ‘vCenter’ cannot be found. The first thing
I was experimenting with the VMware Web service SDK using pyVmomi and I got some error that need to be documented her. I’m using pyVmomi 6.0.0 in a vSphere 6 environment. The first one was an SSL warning when using pyVmomi to acquire a service instance, if you try to use SmartConnect you will get the
If you are having a problem using Winscp to upload files to the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA), you should change some settings on the Winscp client or the VSCA appliance, it depend on what protocol you are using SFTP or SCP. Using SFTP: When opening a connection to VCSA, you get the following error: Host
Last week I was experimenting with a Squid proxy server configuration and trying to see if I can get better performance, I still have a lot to do, but I thought it will be more interesting to publish my configuration and see if someone can take it to the next level and share his experience.
It’s been almost a year that I’ve got my first VCAP-DCA certification, but instead of writing about how I prepared for it, I thought it will be more useful to write about a global strategy for every certification exam. I’m a big fan/believer on IT certifications, especially those lab based, because you can’t brain dump
Today I was experimenting with the manual installation process of vRealize Automation, which is used during a distributed deployment. The IaaS installer is used to install different components of the vRealize Automation platform in this mode. The image below, show different separate components for HA deployment. Image from http://pubs.vmware.com I got some error during the installation
I was working on the network part of some Solaris servers today, this involved deleting and recreating things like vnic, interface and link aggregation. The planned configuration look like this one: image from http://docs.oracle.com/ After deleting all the network configuration from the LDOM, I wasn’t able to recreate the link aggregation, the following error was shown:
Du to some hardware issue, I was in the process of reinstalling my Orchstrator appliance, this took me some time to identify the deployment steps, as I dont do this kind of setup on a daily basis. So I thought if will be useful for futur deployment, to note the major steps, every step is
Some small things can have a big impact on the entire infrastructure. Time synchronization is one of those things, and this is why VMware recommend configuring an NTP server for your vSphere infrastructure (and generally it’s recommended,best practice/required for all the datacenter components). In vSphere 6, before you can add an active directory as an