VMware vSphere Infrastructure build completed, tested and ready for workloads. What’s next? Right, it’s time to create bunch of Windows and Linux VMs for customers! Fastest way to do so – prepare VMware PowerCLI / PowerShell script. In my case as part of the project I had to build 200+… Continue reading
A Quick Reference on how to create a Security Policy with Firewall Rules using NSX-T Policy API. Continue reading
Part 2 This is Part 2 for the article “Export / Backup VMware NSX ESG/DLR configurations with PowerNSX (part 1, ESGs)”. I’m going to show how you can export configuration for DLRs in your environment. How to use this script The way to use script is the same as in… Continue reading
Why do you need this. If you work with VMware NSX on daily basis you should care about Backup & Restore procedure. According to VMware you can schedule NSX Manager backup and think you are on safe side but restore procedure requires to perform full NSX Manager restore and then… Continue reading
Summary Those of you who deal with FW rules creation on daily basis already know how boring could be to create 20-100 FW rules. And what if you need to repeat this task next day or next week again and again. In this case you need to automate this process.… Continue reading
Good Sys Admin is the lazy Sys Admin. Step by step IT automation is making its way in our daily activities and I like to use it as much as possible. Saving time and reducing human errors are obvious advantages, but I also like to watch how the magic happens.… Continue reading
This article covers a scenario where you need to point and work with vAPI endpoint entirely with JavaScript. It wasn’t as flawless as I expected and I spent quite some time to figure it out. Let’s jump in. A while back Angel Iliev wrote 2 very detailed articles covering vAPI… Continue reading
When it comes to automation and further customization of the vRA managed VMs we can’t overlook the vRA 7.x Event Broker. It gives us the opportunity to trigger a vRO workflow when one or multiple conditions are met. In most use cases the information regarding the object that triggers the… Continue reading
Part II. vAPI and JavaScript This is the second part of the series of articles related to VMware vSphere Automation with vRO 7 – Tags and vAPI. In Part I we have covered the vSphere Tags and the setup of the vAPI for vRO7. Here, we will be discussing how to work with vAPI… Continue reading
Part I. vSphere Tags and vRO 7 This is the first part of series of articles related to working with vSphere tags from vRrealize Orchestrator 7 Here we will discuss the tags, we’ll talk about the required setup for vRO to handle vSphere tags and will touch upon other related topics. In Part II… Continue reading
