Disk management in vRO was always a challenging task, because it may require some not trivial steps, which are usually, not visible in GUI or hidden by Powershell modules. Once of such tasks we’re ...

In the world of virtual infrastructure management, efficiency and automation are key to maintaining smooth operations. VMware’s vCenter Content Library is a powerful tool for managing templates, IS...

Disk management in vCenter is a straightforward process. However, what if we want to create a new disk using a code? What if we want to specify a storage controller to which we want to attach the d...

I like the concept of the Self-Healing, Event-Driven datacenter. The fundamental principle involves automatically responding to predefined events. For instance, suppose we have a logging system (th...

Today, we’re going to implement a day 2 action for vRA deployment. Custom day 2 actions are a great feature of vRA. They allow us to add almost anything. We will use this feature to add and connec...

A while back, I came across an intriguing blog post by William Lam blog post that got me thinking about how we could achieve a similar goal in the Aria world and even take it a step further. So, I ...

Problem Sometimes, we need to assign specific tasks to someone, but often, we have to provide detailed instructions like “Don’t forget to do A if A happens and B if B happens”. For example, “When ...

Problem Part of VMware infrastructure maintenance involves upgrading vmtools. Although many ways exist, most out-of-the-box tasks do not cover real-world scenarios, so some functions must be perfo...

The vRO custom form is an amazing tool that offers a wide range of built-in functionalities to create dynamic and flexible forms. What’s even more remarkable is that we can add certain functionalit...

Problem Let’s say we have a ready-to-use template in vRA Assembler that deploys a virtual machine. Now, we aim to implement our proof of concept (POC) strategy (where the deployed resource should ...