VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

VMware SRM is a software solution that enables failover when a disaster occurs at your primary site, causing partial or full downtime. While SRM is not a replication software, it leverages VM-level and array-based replication to orchestrate failover in a predefined order. The distance between two sites can be thousands of miles, such as one site in Dallas and the other […]

VMware vSphere Glossary of Terms

In this post, I want to explain the most recent terms of VMware vSphere in short. Some of the features can be confusing and easily misunderstood, so I decided to create a brief identification of all these useful terms and features. VM (Virtual Machine): A software-defined computer system that operates like a physical computer. Guest OS (Operating System): The operating […]

how cloud-init interacts with different operating systems and their respective network management tools.

When working with cloud-init, it’s crucial to understand how it interacts with different operating systems and their respective network management tools. This understanding ensures that your network configurations are applied correctly, especially when using orchestration tools like VMware Aria Automation. In this post, I will describe the differences in how cloud-init interacts with network management tools in Ubuntu and Red […]

How to Set Up Email Notifications for Alerts in VMware Aria Operations

In this guide, I will walk you through the steps to configure Aria Operations to send email notifications when specific metrics exceed defined thresholds. For this example, we will set up a notification for when server CPU usage exceeds 70%. However, you can apply these instructions to monitor any metric of interest. Prerequisites Metric Collection: Ensure the metric you want […]