Category: Blog

25. April 2025

VMware home lab licensing with VMUG Advantage

VMware home lab licensing with VMUG Advantage VMware home lab licensing with VMUG Advantage By passing either of the new VCP-VCF level certification exams, anyone maintaining an active VMUG Advantage membership can receive 3 years worth of extensive VMware Cloud Foundation licensing for home lab use! Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

24. April 2025

Updated Script for Automated Adapter Instance…

Updated Script for Automated Adapter Instance Creation in Aria Operations _ broc… Updated Script for Automated Adapter Instance… Last month I published a blog including a script that helped users create HPE Proliant Adapter instances. I’ve updated that script to allow users to configure the Collector Group each adapter instance uses and to start the adapter instances if they’d like, you can get it here.The […]

24. April 2025

Holodeck Lab: Building the lab – My Software…

Holodeck Lab: Building the lab – My Software Defined DataCenter Holodeck Lab: Building the lab – My Software… After leaving Broadcom at the end of last year, I lost the control of my “VCF on VCD” lab environment (I am happy to say I was able to transfer it to a colleague, so it got a good new home :)), but that meant, I was […]

24. April 2025

Holodeck Lab: Replacing Networking with pfSense…

Holodeck Lab: Replacing Networking with pfSense – My Software Defined DataCenter Holodeck Lab: Replacing Networking with pfSense… After the first blog I posted in this new series, I am going to change some of the networking. The Holodeck itself comes with a pretty good way of containing the lab environment in its own bubble, and only having one entry point (the Holo-A-Router), but since this […]

24. April 2025

VMware NSX Autonomous Edge. How to setup a…

VMware NSX Autonomous Edge. How to setup a Layer 2 VPN. Part 2 – A Look at the P… VMware NSX Autonomous Edge. How to setup a… This is part 2 of the 2 part series. we will do a deep dive into the packet flow of the VM to the Deployed edge VPN .. Not sure what a Layer 2 VPN is? Or how […]

24. April 2025

Comparing Polyglot Approaches in vRO: Zip…

Comparing Polyglot Approaches in vRO: Zip Bundles, Environments, Libraries Comparing Polyglot Approaches in vRO: Zip… Explore Aria Automation Orchestrator’s Polyglot scripting with Zip Bundles, Script Environments, and Native Libraries for seamless automation. Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

24. April 2025

VVF and VCF license scenarios

VVF and VCF license scenarios VVF and VCF license scenarios If you are using a VMware HCI platform (vSAN or VxRail) in your production environment, you can choose either VVF (VMware vSphere Foundation) or VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) licenses. If your environment is based on VxRail, you need to choose a VCF (VMware Cloud Foundation) license […] Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

15. April 2025

PowerShell Script as a Web/API Server _…

PowerShell Script as a Web/API Server _ vcrocs.info PowerShell Script as a Web/API Server _… How to use PowerShell Scripts as a Web Server or RESTful API Front End Server… Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

15. April 2025

Tracking adminstrator@vsphere.local Logins with…

Tracking adminstrator@vsphere.local Logins with Aria Operations for Logs _ brock… Tracking adminstrator@vsphere.local Logins with… If you’re using Aria Operations for Logs and have installed the vSphere Content Pack, you’ll notice dozens of Dashboards, Queries, Alerts, and more! I’m interested in users logging into my vCenters, specifically those logging in with adminstrator@vsphere.local. There’s a Dashboard that gets […] Broadcom Social Media Advocacy

15. April 2025

How to Suppress ESXi Shell Warnings with…

(Not recommended for Prod Env’s) How to Suppress ESXi Shell Warnings with PowerCLI – Stanislav Musil – VPXD blog How to Suppress ESXi Shell Warnings with… If you’re managing VMware environments, you might occasionally run into persistent shell warning alerts in your ESXi hosts. Thankfully, you can quickly find and suppress these warnings with a bit of PowerCLI magic. Broadcom Social Media Advocacy