Have you got an NSX Manager that’s done the rounds for the past few years and served you well? Is it time for another upgrade but you’re stuck because the disk is full and you’ve been told: Cannot continue upgrade due to errors : Insufficient disk space. Database disk usage is at 87%, but it should be less than 70%. We recommend running a database full vacuum before proceeding with upgrade.

If you’ve ever been in a situation where your Quanta BMC is misbehaving and you need to reset it, you may have noticed that the built in CLI for remote management (SMASH) is missing ipmiutil, or at least it was on my machine. To reset the BMC on a Quanta machine, SSH to the out of band IP address of the server. Once you’ve logged in, run show to list the available ’targets’ for the SMASH CLI.

A quick post today! I was trying to configure the vRealize Operations Manager Outbound REST notification plugin recently and I was having a few issues doing a POST or PUT operation against the specified endpoint. Specifically, I was getting the following message: Test was not successful: Failed to post or put to the server. I tried looking around the vROPs Logs section under Administration > Support > Logs but couldn’t find anything specific for Outbound Notification plugins.

Just this week I had to create a JSON object that contained all of the workflow input parameters and their respective values. While I can’t guarantee this is the best way to do it, it definitely works. I’ve tried to keep the comments succinct so if you have any questions please ask. Code // Get all input parameters for the parent workflow var inParamsArray = workflow.rootWorkflow.inParameters; // Get all input parameters for the current workflow to search through later var paramFinder = workflow.

Like many professionals in this industry, I have a homelab. Who would need a homelab anymore with the cloud as prevalent as it is? Well, someone who specialises in private on-premises clouds and the work required to make it a hybrid cloud. And to be honest, I love it. I get to build something that is truly mine with my own constraints and requirements and still try to reach maximum usefulness for the hardware.

This post is part of a series. You’re reading Part 2. Auto deploy a Hugo website from GitHub to S3 - Part 1 Preparing for the AWS Lambda function Now that GitHub notifies AWS of changes, we need to create the “doing” part of our project. We’re going to use AWS’ Lambda service to perform the work. Lambda will execute the function everytime a notification is published to the SNS topic.

During my GitHub -> Lambda -> S3 series I needed to download and install NodeJS modules into my project’s working directory. I didn’t really want to install NodeJS and NPM on my Mac as my machine is a daily driver (SysAdmin/Ops) and not really a front or backend dev machine. I could always use a virtual machine but that’s too resource intensive just to download some NPM modules. What’s smaller than a VM?

This post is part of a series. You’re reading Part 1. Auto deploy a Hugo website from GitHub to S3 - Part 2 Introduction For those who don’t know what Hugo is, it’s a static website generator. Its source material is a Hugo template with your content in Markdown. I’ve used it for a while, in fact this blog is generated using Hugo. Hugo can give you an entire site in HTML/CSS and any required Javascript that you can then place anywhere on the web.

One of the core pre-requisites for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director 2.0 is CassandraDB. This database service stores replication state and storage information and is used by the HCS (vSphere Replication Cloud Service) appliance. As part of my strained vCloud Availability deployment I needed to build a simple CassandraDB server. VMware Docs and the vCloud Architecture blog have some great information to get you started: vCloud Architecture blog - Deploying CassandraDB VMware Docs - vCloud Availability for vCloud Director Installation Guide Symptom I built the CassandraDB server as described in the blog post and Docs pages above, but when I would try to connect to the database using the Cassandra shell (cqlsh {ip-address} 9042) I would get the following error:

After a short break over Christmas and New Year’s I threw myself into the latest version of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director (2.0). The installation of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director (vCAv) is all done through an “installer appliance”, a CLI and a configuration file called a ‘registry’. I opted for the ‘automated’ installation using a registry file and had all of my configuration and VM deployment specs in there.