I borked the admin@local password on my VCF Operations Fleet Manager, so had to reset it. Found this KB which got me going. root@vcfops-bpeterson [ /opt/vmware/share/vami ]# ./vami-vlcm-passwd-reset Enter new password: Confirm Password: retrying--- count for get password: 1. Sleeping for 10 seconds retrying--- count for get password: 2. Sleeping for 10 seconds retrying--- count for get password: 3. Sleeping for 10 seconds As you can see, that didn't work. Since I don't ha

In our last blog we introduced the vCommunity Management Pack for VCF Operations. We went into detail around installation, configuration, and the first four use cases ESXi Advanced System Settings, ESXi Software Packages, VM Advanced Parameters, and VM Options. Today we will discuss the next two use cases: Windows Services and Events. If you recall, the vCommunity Management Pack comes with several configuration files, as shown here. The windows_service_list.xml configura

Broadcom Technical Account Manager Onur Yuzseven has been leading the development effort of a Management Pack for VCF Operations called the VCF Operations vCommunity Management Pack . You can find his blog here . The goal here is to augment what comes out of the box with Operations, providing additional Metrics, Properties, Dashboards, and more. It was developed with the Operations Integrations SDK as opposed to the Management Pack Builder . You can get the vCommunity Ma

The VCF Operations API surface exposes metrics, for reference here are a few blogs related to this: Pulling Super Metric Values from the VCF Operations API Pull Cluster Capacity Remaining % via Aria Operations API Pull vSphere World Metrics from the VCF Operations API Today we'll discuss how to capture Datastore metrics, let's go. First, let's authenticate. I'm going to authenticate with local credentials, but there are other ways to do this as well. Once authenticated you

VCF Operations has several Capacity related features, including the ability to reclaim Powered Off VMs and Idle VMs, remove VM Snapshots, and find Orphaned Disks. In product it looks like this (all screenshots in this blog are taken from 9.0.1). You can export the list of Orphaned Disks via EXPORT ALL, but you can also find these in the VCF Operations API. In this case we'll be using the Internal API surface, which you can find here. Top right select Internal APIs and go t

I was recently setting up Log Forwarding in VCF Operations 8.18.3, which looks like this. Documentation for these fields can be found here . One thing to note is that the Host field expects the IP of your external log server, in my case the VCF Operations for Logs Primary Node IP. The other interesting field here is Cluster Name, which is the VCF Operations Cluster Name. If you're ever wondering what your VCF Operations Cluster Name is, you can query the CASA API like this.

If you've been using VCF Operations for a while you've likely come across the Workload Widget in a Dashboard, it looks like this. It will provide the CPU Workload % and Memory Workload % of the Object it's configured to show. Here I've told mine to show CPU and Memory Workload Metrics for Cluster vcfops01 . As shown, beyond that, there is nothing else to configure. If you look at the Cluster itself, you can see the metrics being displayed. As shown, CPU Workload % is at 11.

VCF Operations Fleet Manager 9 is up and running and I'd like to deploy Operations for Networks. Here's how I did it. First, let's download the necessary binaries. Log into VCF Operations, go to Fleet Management - Lifecycle - Binary Management. Select the checkbox for operations-networks and click DOWNLOAD. You'll notice a green check banner indicating your download is in progress. Once downloaded, you'll see them in the INSTALL BINARIES tab. Notice I downloaded the most

Yesterday we upgraded VCF Operations Fleet Manager 9.0 to 9.0.1 , today we'll upgrade VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs 9.0 to...

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I had some issues with my VCF Operations Fleet Manager instance and ended up having to re-deploy it via OVA, here's how I did it. Log...

If you're running VCF Operations you've probably seen this notice before. As directed, clicking on GO TO CERTIFICATES takes you here....

Earlier this year we discussed sending VCF Operations logs to VCF Operations for Logs. Earlier today I discovered that we can actually...

More of a KB, than a blog here, but I was trying to enable/disable SSH on my VCF Operations 9 Fleet Manager VM last week, took me longer...

ESXi Hosts in VCF Operations have dozens of CPU and Memory related metrics, but they don't have any "capacity free" type metrics, so I...

We've discussed the VCF Operations 9 Fleet Manager API previously , but this is a specific use case. I'd like to delete a Certificate,...

VCF Operations 9 is deployed, Fleet Manager is deployed, and I'm downloading Install Binaries to the Fleet Manager Depot. All is well,...

We've discussed VM Pricing in the past , but after reviewing VM Price metrics in VCF Operations 9, it's time for a quick update. All...

VCF Operations Summary Pages offer a lot of information: data, metadata, Alerts, capacity projections, and more. In the top right of...

I had a Cluster with seven supporting Datastores and I wanted Capacity metrics for just those with certain names, here's how I did it. I...

I recently went to install a Management Pack in VCF Operations 9, but got this error. If you recall, back in VCF Operations 8.x when...