Storage Gumbo

A spicy mix of unrelated topics

  • Starting vRO Workflows with Log Insight Webhooks

    Beginning with version 3.3 of Log Insight, alerts can be forwarded via a webhook.  Basically, any URL you designate will have an HTTP POST issued with the alert contents as a JSON body.  This feature provides some very basic capability and most use cases will require a bit more functionality. For example, vRO workflows can…

  • Retooling the Infoblox vRA Plugin to Support Event Broker

    Retooling the Infoblox vRA Plugin to Support Event Broker

    In this blog post I will provide information on using the Infoblox “VMware Cloud Adapter” version 3.2 with the new Event Broker feature of vRA 7. This does not require any modification of the Infoblox workflows and the adapter will continue to work as written by Infoblox. This content is intended for readers comfortable with…

  • Captain’s Log, Supplemental – HOL-SDC-1602, Migrating to VDS Using Host Profiles

    As a Lab Captain for VMware’s Hands-on-Labs (HOL) this year, I enjoyed creating content for the lab “vSphere with Operations Management 6- Advanced Topics” (HOL-SDC-1602).  However, I had to cut some of the content due to the length of the lab. One of the topics I had to cut was “Migrating to the vSphere Distributed…

  • Get A List of vR Ops Available Metrics

    When building dashboards, reports or even symptoms and alerts in vRealize Operations Manager 6, it may be helpful to have a handy reference of metrics available in a given instance of vR Ops.  This is dependent on the solutions installed, of course, so this will vary from instance to instance. Also, with the vRealize Operations…

  • Cannot Start a VM – A general system error occurred: Connection refused

    The error referenced in the title was one I ran into today while trying to start some VMs.  I finally found a KB somewhat related to this issue and the workaround did the trick for me. Basically, the vCenter Workflow Manager service had stopped on my vCenter server.  In my case, I’m running the 6.0.0…

  • Using Postman to Explore the vRealize Operations Manager 6 API

    If you are like me, the concept of REST was something I understood but as a vAdmin I had no exposure to actually using for automation tasks.  In short, the REST API provided with vR Ops 6 allows you to interact with vR Ops through scripts and workflows (i.e. vRealize Orchestrator).  But before jumping into…

John Dias