Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Data Sources
This is the first post in a series on how to use PowervRNI to manage your vRealize Network Insight environment. Starting with Data Sources. Data Sources Brief background; data sources in vRNI are endpoints from which vRNI retrieves information from. Examples are: vCenter, NSX, Switches,…
Introducing PowervRNI
I am excited to introduce PowervRNI to the world! In the 3.6 release of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) in November, there was a public API added. Through this API, you can offload certain tedious tasks like creating applications and managing data sources. I was using…
The missing NSX security group
Earlier this week I ran into the following error “The requested object : securitygroup-xxx could not be found. Object identifiers are case sensitive.”. You can come across this error when you try to export your NSX firewall config. Or at the service composer at the top…
vRealize Automation failed requests monitoring
When working with vRealize Automation, monitoring the requests tab on the tenant portal can be really usefull. Knowing when a workflow fails for a tenant and act on this as soon as possible, can raise your tenant happiness. Keeping an eye out for failed requests…
Exporting your Amazon Kindle Highlights & Notes to MySQL
As a wise man said; now for something completely different. This post is going to be just that. I received a Amazon Kindle on christmas and absolutely love it. It has replaced hauling around a bunch of physical books and made my life a lot…
Powershell: VMware NSX duplicate VTEP addresses
Roughly a half year ago we came across a situation in which an VMware NSX environment was having problems consistingly applying routing and firewall rules. After some troubleshooting it appeared to be a problem with duplicate VTEP (VXLAN Tunnel Enpoint) addresses on the vSphere hosts….
How to deliver Database-as-a-Service with vRealize Automation
Recently we (My colleague Dimitri and myself) delivered a Proof of Concept (PoC) at a customer with vRealize Automation 7. During the PoC we have proven a few different use cases like deploying a Linux virtual machine with a JBoss application using an integration with…
vRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data Sources
I’ve been rolling out quite a few vRealize Network Insight deployments (labs, Proof-of-Concepts) and while the installation of Network Insight is a cake walk (see automated installer here), add the data sources can be time consuming if you have a bunch of switches and/or other…
Installing vRealize Network Insight with PowerCLI
The good people of vRealize Network Insight made the OVAs of Network Insight 3.2 Import-vApp safe, which means you can now install it with PowerCLI! Network Insight consists of two VMs; the Platform VM and the Proxy VM. The setup process looks like this: Deploy…
PowerCLI for OS X & Linux Fling
Just before all the buzz started from VMworld (such as the vSphere 6.5 release), the VMware fling team dropped a huge release. The first version of PowerCLI for OS X and Linux is available! PowerCLI – Current State While this is a fling, a lot…
NSX SpoofGuard Automatic Approvals through your IPAM
VMware NSX provides a (heavily underestimated) SpoofGuard functionality, which prevents virtual machines to use IP addresses that are not approved by the network engineers. It guards for, guess what, IP spoofs. Virtual machines will not be able to change their IP addresses without administrative approval,…
pyvmomi: Cross platform scripting for VMware
There is a lot of attention for PowerCLI for the day to day automation of your VMware infrastructure. But what if you don’t have or want Windows machines? When you are using your Mac or Linux machine for maintenance you have to create a virtual…
Deploy and configure VMware NSX in 23 minutes
VMware NSX is completely software based. This means it’s flexible as heck and you can have a lot of instances running concurrently. It also means you can go crazy with your network topology designs and amount of tinkering you can do with your virtual network….
PowerShell Friday: Using the Cisco ACI API
One of the great things of all network virtualization solutions, is that they can be automated using some form of API that they publish. Cisco ACI is no different and offers a RESTful API which you can consume to do stuff on the network. Well,…