VMware has released a new Skyline certification called Skyline Advisor Pro Technologist. Quote: The VMware Skyline Advisor Pro Technologist badge validates skills for supporting, managing, and planning environments through proactive monitoring and issue remediation. The badge holder helps organizations use VMware …

How to install Loginsight agent using a Ansible playbook onto Ubuntu or Photon OS machines. Create a directory called loginsight-agent Create a sub directory called files Copy the liagent install packages into the files folder Copy a liagent.ini into the files folder Copy the playbook into the loginsight-agent folder …

If you have configured a proxy in the VAMI it might be that you run into issues when importing OVA/OVF files. 1/var/log/vmware/vpxd/vpxd.log 12020-09-16T14:41:59.004+02:00 info vpxd[14866] [Originator@6876 sub=Default opID=2b691553-01] [VpxLRO] -- ERROR task-1978410 -- UPSA913s-x64-VM01-noV 2APP -- …

Example Ansible playbook to deploy a Skyline collector: Download the Skyline collector ova from vmware.com Download Playbook: here You have to adjust the parameters based on your environment. Folder path can easily be found using govc. 1root@jumper:~/ansible-VMware# govc vm.info testmachine 2Name: testmachine 3 Path: …

You can query the version and build number of VMware products on command line. ESXi: 1[root@r630:~] vmware -v 2VMware ESXi 7.0.3 build-18644231 vCenter: 1root@vcsa [ ~ ]# vpxd -v 2VMware VirtualCenter 7.0.3 build-18778458 vROPS: 1root@vRealizeClusterNode [ ~ ]# cat /etc/vmware/.buildInfo | grep RELEASENUMBER | sed …

what I'm currently working on 1dev@workstation:/opt/development/skycli# go run skycli.go 2Please provide parameters: 3 4-action add, delete, update, status, rootpasspolicy, register, collectorupdate 5-collector FQDN or IP of Skyline Collector 6-username Skyline Collector User 7-password Skyline Collector Password …

To simplify the troubleshooting of performance issues with VMs I have created a vROPs dashboard which give you a highlevel overview about Cluster, ESXi and Virtual machine metrics. You can download the dashboard here. I have tested the dashboard with vROPs 8.5 and 8.6. The dashboard contains 2 sections. The first …

vSphere Diagnostic Tool is a python script that runs diagnostic commands on the vCenter Server Photon Appliance to return useful troubleshooting data while running within the confines of the local environment with out upstream dependencies. The tool itself is currently a set of self contained python and bash scripts …

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Short overview about my current homelab setup. Hardware StarTech OpenFram Rack 25 HE 1x Dell Poweredge R630 2x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2630L v3 @ 1.80Ghz total of 32 logical CPUs 192GB Memory 2x 10Gbit + 2x 1Gbit Network 1x iDrac Enterprise Storage 4x 480GB SSD 4x 5TB HDD 1x 480GB NVMe 1x 1TB NVMe 1x 32GB USB Stick …