Hero Image
VCF - Exploring Your Operational Toolbox - VMUG UK UserCon 2023

This last week I had the opportunity to present a session at the VMUG UK UserCon with friend and colleague, James T. The session built on a previous session we did, diving deeper into some of the technical aspects and use cases of some of the tools available to help you manage your VCF platform. The slides and some of the code are available here on my GitHub. As always, thanks for reading!

Monday, November 27, 2023 | 1 minute Read
Hero Image
Exporting Aria Operations Content via the API and PowerShell

I recently spent some time creating custom dashboards in Aria Operations and realised very quickly that I would not want to lose them! So I looked at exporting the content using the API and then automating this. Firstly I used my go to language, PowerShell (this requires PowerShell 7) to make my life easier, specifically the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet. I thought it would be worth while sharing for anyone else out there creating custom content in Aria Operations and is looking for a way to back it up.

Saturday, November 11, 2023 | 4 minutes Read
Hero Image
Client SMTP Email Submission & Graph API - Azure

I recently began playing with Azure DevOps Pipelines as a way to automate various aspects of my lab. As part of this I wanted to send email notifications that I could customize the content of, which I couldn’t get from the built-in notification capability. Since the PowerShell cmdlet; Send-Mail Message is obsolete, I began investigating alternatives which is when I came across this article and decided to give it ago and share!

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 | 6 minutes Read
Hero Image
vCenter Server Profiles

Whilst beginning preparations to take the VMware Certificated Advanced Professional Deploy exam, I have started to look into the features and topics that I’m not overly familiar with. To help with the learning process, I am going to be deploying and configuring these features, and writing blogs on many of the topics to help cement the information. Hopefully these will be useful for anyone else learning or researching these topics!

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 | 6 minutes Read