Objectives The goal and purpose is to show how to connect vRealize Orchestrator to vRealize Operations to later be able to do actions and remedies based on alerts in vRealize Operations. You can then also run Orchestrator workflows directly from vRealize Operations objects. I hope this little article with it’s two …

What if you are Unable to bring your vRealize (Aria) Operations cluster online because one or more nodes are out of disk space. Let's see if the log disk is the problem and try to fix it The goal is to find out if the Log disk is full and how to clean it and hopefully you save some time with this mini-Recipe that will …

The problem The goal and purpose was that I needed to bypass the "This PC can’t run Windows 11" problem during an installation of a Windows 11 Virtual Machine (VM) in my test environment. This DIY recipe will save us the hassle of googling it once again and sorting out the correct article to try out. This PC …

Monitoring K8s with VMware Monitoring is an essential part of DevOps. As enterprises are using Kubernetes, they would need all the capabilities they leverage today for virtual machines. Starting from discovering the Kubernetes clusters, creating an inventory, defining relationships, and finally collecting all the key …

How-to set up Python on Pi The goal of this little article is to show how I installed Python on raspberry PI. There are lot's of articles out there on the subject, but since I am a beginner, I am running through everything I find useful for my self and as a later notice to myself. This saves med the time and hassle to …

For the fourth time I am a 'captain' as a part of the VMware Hands-On Labs, and this year I will be on both VMware Explore arrangements in USA and EUROPE. While serving the Hands-on Labs environment, we will have Instructor Lead Workshops (ELW) where the participating audience will have headsets and listening to me …

What's the problem? Normally a Virtual appliance (VA) in the vRealize Suite (VRS), will expire the root password you set under the installation in a year. Well, nothing dramatic about that. But, will you remember to change it next year? Maybe, if something told you in a GUI, mail or monitoring system that the password …

VMware Explore is the new VMworld Right? Right! Yes it's all here, this will not change back again. Do we all want to change in the same pace VMware does. We all know that can be challenging for customers, but what about you? Read through this and see if your own personal opinions differ from mine, I hope they do. …

Recently, VMware released new and improved vRealize versions. Let's have a look on vRealize Operations and the new v8.6.3 of the product. This release from 8.6.2 to 8.6.3. is a is a maintenance release which resolves a few important security and functionality issues identified in the product For more details, see KB …

Frigate Frigate - I've neither seen the boat nor the bird but my Frigate can actually dock or nest?! :-) Frigate is an open source NVR, a Network Video Recorder which is run as a Docker container on a Docker host. My preferred choice was to run it on Ubuntu 21.04 and install all the docker components directly on ubuntu …