vROPS | Custom Groups

It helps to group scattered VMs across multiple datacenters but belongs to same entity. To elaborate, Goal - I want to have a heatmap dashboard for all VMs of my client and in a single pane. Challenge - My client's VMs are scattered around 4 data centers and in multiple folders and it is on vCloud Director platform. But vROPS will not be able to show the data in single pane of view because VMs...

Python | Web page automation with Selenium

Below example is to auto-login in web-page. Already there are lots of websites sharing the same but I would like to have all the info at one place(Because this is my vCloud Notes) :) #Start here from selenium import webdriver  #Install the selenium package from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By import time import selenium, os, time from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by...

NSX | MicroSegmentation

Micro-segmentation is a fancy term, basically it is kind of next level security provided by NSX. It is well known as "Micro" because it helps us to control the traffic flow even from a vNIC. This Micro-segmentation basically we achieve by DFW that is Distributed Firewall. Internet is already flooded...

vROPS | Health Check of cluster

Sometime we have to check the cluster health. In terms of database size, collected metrics size etc.. for that I have a script which gives you very beautiful view of each and every thing of all the vrops cluster nodes. Run the script and you see it by yourself. Step 1: Login vrops master node with...

Zerto Virtual Manager | Change Recovery VRA VM with powershell cmdlet

As a pre-requisite, you might need to download and install Zerto PowerShell Package from here #Start here clear function LoadSnapin{ param($PSSnapinName) if (!(Get-PSSnapin | where {$_.Name -eq $PSSnapinName})){ Add-pssnapin -name $PSSnapinName } } # Loading snapins and modules LoadSnapin -PSSnapinName "Zerto.PS.Commands" clear Write-host "Welcome to Zerto Powershell Script to change the Recovery...

Zerto Virtual Manager | Pause replication on all VPGs with CMDlets

It is simple, if you know it. Let's us powershell to do that. function LoadSnapin{ param($PSSnapinName) if (!(Get-PSSnapin | where {$_.Name -eq $PSSnapinName})){ Add-pssnapin -name $PSSnapinName } } # Loading snapins and modules LoadSnapin -PSSnapinName "Zerto.PS.Commands" $VPGs = Get-ProtectionGroups -ZVMIP 1.1.1.1 -ZVMPort 9080 -Username administrator -Password password -SiteName ALL #1.1.1.1...
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vCenter Server | How to get percentage free space of a datastore?

$vcenter = read-host "Enter vCenter server FQDN " Connect-VIServer $vcenter echo "Welcome to Datastore free space calculator tool" echo "" echo " Press 1 to search details for single datastore" echo " Press 2 to search details for all the datastores" $data = Read-Host "Enter your choice" If($data -eq 1 ) { $a= Read-Host " Please enter the name of DS" $DS= Get-Datastore Get-Datastore |...
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NSX | How to disable SSH on all NSX edges?

Enabled SSH can be a security threat so it is recommended to keep it disabled and enable only when highly required. Again disabling it manually is a tedious task (at least for me) so I thought to do it through powershell. Below example is for selected edges, in case you want it to run for all then simply remove the source file and run "Get-Nsxedge".  To disable SSH on selected Edges  #Connect...
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NSX | How to get IPSec VPN Tunnel Statistics for all NSX edges

I simply recalled the NSX API through powershell and got the required result. #Start clear #replace 1.1.1.1 with actual IP address of NSX Manager Connect-NSXServer -NSXServer 1.1.1.1 #Put all the edge-IDs in below location, for which you want to see the result. $edgeids = Get-Content -path C:\Temp\gjohar.txt  foreach($edgeid...
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NSX | How to Connect NSX Manager in Rest API client?

To connect with APIs of NSX Manager, you can use any tool like Postman or Insomnia. Let's see, how we can do that. I use insomnia, so will demonstrate via insomnia only. However process is quite similar. Step 1: Install and open Insomnia 1.a : It is freeware tool and downloaded from here. Please...

Zerto Virtual Manager | How to read xml file extracted from ZVM (Zerto Virtual Manager)

To explain it completely, let me share the thought behind this post- In ZVM, when we recreate any VPG, we export its setting (Which include VMs name, IP settings, failover network, test network etc) before deleting it. So that, we don't need to create it from scratch and manually. When we have this exported settings, we just import it back and VPG automatically get created. This setting which...

vROPS | Views

vROPS is an amazing tool and it is essential to know about "Views and Reports" feature, which is kind of "must know" thing who work on vROPS. Let's explore how you can create "Views and Reports" and take benefit out of it. I will explain it with one use case. Use Case: Under some customer issue,...

NSX | Troubleshooting tricks to solve communication issues between two VMs in NSX environment

When I say between two VMs, there can be many use cases as below Use Case 1: These two VMs can be on same host and in same VXLAN Use Case 2: These two VMs can be on same hosts and in different VXLAN Use Case 3: These VMs can be on different host and in same VXLAN Use Case 4: These can be on different...

NSX | When and why we need to redeploy NSX edge?

Hi Guys,So, Edge or ESG (Edge service Gateway) is component of NSX which provide services from L3-L7  that is from routing to load-balancing.I have seen few cases where communication was impacted between the VMs on either side of ESG. For example, VM in SITE A and VM in SITE B is not pinging with each other and there is a actual outage.And I checked I found no changes were made in physical network...

vCloud Director | How to re-synchronize inventory of vCenter server with vCD

Basically we need to do this due to stale entries in vCD database. It happens when any object get removed\deleted directly from vCenter while it was being managed by vCD. Hence vCD don't know if that was deleted and treat it like live object which creates issues in vCD operations. By re-sync inventory, vCD re-read all the inventory of vCenter server and update in database which resolve the issue. It...
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