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Interrogating data using modern applications I love working with data and with visualisations. I am often at my happiest when working with a large data set trying to find the answer to questions or trying to present data in a way that make it more accessible without losing its meaning. In the UK, government departments […]
PowerShell: Searching guestinfo.appinfo for an Application or Service VMware Tools 11 can be configured to collect information of running services inside a virtual machine. When the information is captured it is stored in the advanced setting guestinfo.appinfo. I’ve written about this before and how that information can be exported to a CSV and transformed with […]
Exporting vROPs Alert and Symptom Definitions as CSV I saw a question over on VMTN asking how to export Alert and Symptom definitions from vROPs from the GUI. It is perfectly possible to do that with vROPs 8.1, but you are going to need to go through page after page of definitions and export them […]
Adding Virtual Machine advanced settings to custom properties in vRealize Operations I’ve been working with a customer recently that want to display advanced settings from a virtual machine in vRealize Operations manager. If you didn’t know vROPs does a fantastic job of collecting object settings and presenting them back so they can be tracked in […]
vRealise Orchestrator 8.0.1 installation errors As part of something else that I’ve been working on I needed to install vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) into the lab. I’d not installed the latest versions of vRO but I was aware that the architecture had changed from earlier versions, and was now built upon kubernetes. vRO Deployment vRO is […]
VMware PowerShell – VM Advanced Settings – ‘guestinfo.ignition.config.data’ Working this evening with my colleague Dean this evening he asked me to create a quick PowerShell script to help him with an OpenShift 4 installation. What he needed to do was to edit the advanced setting ‘guest.ignition.config.data’ with a base64 encoding value. The quick and dirty […]
VMware PowerShell – Useful HealthCheck Remediation Scripts I get to conduct and review the recommendations and findings from a VMware HealthCheck and Best Practice Reviews. Recently I conducted one and to help with remediation I pulled together some simple PowerShell Scripts to remove the manual effort. Disconnect all Connected CDs from VMs A very common […]