<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[bpatvmware]]></title><description><![CDATA[bpatvmware]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:06:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.brockpeterson.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations and DX Operational Observability]]></title><description><![CDATA[We've discussed VCF Operations Alert Notifications many times before: Aria Operations and ServiceNow Send VMware Aria Operations Alerts to Slack Send Aria Operations Alerts to Google Chat Send vROps Alerts to Microsoft Teams vROps Alert Notifications vROps SNMP Plugin and ServiceNow I recently discovered DX Operational Observability ( DX O2 ), Broadcom's AI Ops and Observability platform which can help with Alert correlation and enrichment.  DX O2 can receive Alerts from just about anything...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-and-dx-operational-observability</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dbea7d75afb0779a7541ed</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:32:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_106bb28110b3428f84034740ff63e9f7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using Claude for VCF Operations Super Metrics]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been using OpenAI ChatGPT for years now, but in recent months I've been hearing more and more about Anthropic Claude, so figured I'd check it out. VCF Operations Super Metrics is a perfect use case for Claude.  While we've made the creation of Super Metrics much more intuitive than they used to be, they can still be tricky.  Let's see how Claude does with them. We'll first start with an easy one, which is quite common, a Super Metric to calculate the average CPU Usage % for all VMs in a...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/using-claude-for-vcf-operations-super-metrics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d28e51c53e2b8fe121ec92</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:55:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_e51e627b0c1f449c8a96cde4c6883bbd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations and Operations for Logs Integrations]]></title><description><![CDATA[In VCF Operations 9 we've made the integration between VCF Operations and Operations for Logs even more robust.  There are several different places you can view logs in VCF Operations, Infrastructure Operations - Analyze is the first. This provides the general logs viewing experience: y ou can search logs here, compare logs, save queries, use extracted fields, and more.  This is similar to the experience from the Operations for Logs UI itself. The second place you'll find logs is on the...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-and-operations-for-logs-integrations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cfa46d40e74dbec4008cea</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations for Logs]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:38:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_2f80a1b1c89242069b80069b20ab42a9~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations Alerts using Dynamic Thresholds]]></title><description><![CDATA[We've discussed VCF Operations Dynamic Thresholds (DTs)  a few times, mostly going into the details of what DTs are and how they are calculated. Aria Operations Dynamic Thresholds VMware Aria Operations Dynamic Thresholding The New Way of Evaluating Dynamic Thresholds in Aria Operations In this blog I'd like to detail the use of DTs in VCF Operations Alert Definitions.  In relation to this, it's important to highlight the last blog listed above, namely that Alert Definitions using DTs are...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-dynamic-thresholds</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c12e686e2d813924926c48</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:41:58 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_a9d2d163d57b43e09ff92831669dbdfb~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Detecting vSphere VM OS Mis-Matches with VCF Operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[As you've likely noticed, there are times your vSphere VMs won't have the same value for Guest OS from vCenter  and Guest OS from Tools . Guest OS from vCenter  is set at build/deployment time and won't change.  Guest OS from Tools  is updated as the OS changes, is upgraded, etc.  I wanted to know which of my VMs had an OS mis-match, so I built a quick Dashboard. This works for small environments, but what if I had 1000s of VMs to check.  Another way to discover VMs with OS mis-matches if to...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vsphere-vm-os-mis-matches</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c05b84f68fa4c22fbc8bfa</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:39:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_d5bfced7b4f94565a92472970989a46f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VM Downtime with VCF Operations Super Metrics]]></title><description><![CDATA[We blogged about VM downtime  a while back.  That blog introduced a Super Metric that calculated VM downtime in minutes based on a 5m collection interval.  I'd like to do something similar for VM downtime in hours and days, but I don't want to show those metrics with decimal values, but rather as integers.  For example, if a VM has been down 3.2 hours I'd like to show that as 3 hours.  Similarly, if a VM has been down for 1.6 days I'd like to show that was 1 day until it's actually down for 2...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vm-downtime-with-vcf-operations-super-metrics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69bc61b3bec251fc0ba8f8f8</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:26:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_f173e9779990460b9b31b5a9af7ec834~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deploy VMs via the VCF Automation API]]></title><description><![CDATA[We've discussed the VCF Operations API and the Operations for Logs API several times over the years here, but haven't touched on the VCF Automation API.  Today we're going to explore it.  All screenshots here are taking from VCF Automation 8.18.1 Update 4 . First off, the VCF Automation 8.18.1 API can be found at https://yourvrafqdn/automation-ui/api-docs  and looks like this. You'll notice tiles for many endpoints here, but we'll start with Identity, which will give us authentication options....]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/deploy-vms-via-the-vcf-automation-api</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b712fc982a6a9cdc282f76</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Automation]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:03:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_9e1d5b937b00406b8bb4997674fb7534~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applying the VCF Automation 8.18.1 Update 4 Patch]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've upgraded to the latest patches for the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager and vIDM: Applying Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18 Patch 7 Applying CSP-102547 Patch to vIDM 3.3.7 I've upgraded Operations and Logs to 8.18.6: VCF Operations 8.18.6 VCF Operations for Logs 8.18.6 Next we'll apply Automation 8.18.1 Update 4 .  There is a useful KB located here  with binaries and instructions.  I've uploaded the binaries to /data on my ASLCM VM and will now apply them.  Click ADD and you can watch...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/applying-the-vcf-automation-8-18-1-update-4-patch</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69b1aa02b888d78955e498a8</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Automation]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:30:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_a9fbd87fc8964bd5bbecb33a837f5800~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations Management Pack Builder Authentication Methods]]></title><description><![CDATA[We've discussed the VCF Operations Management Pack Builder (MPB) a few times so far: Aria Operations Management Pack Builder Building a Management Pack with the Aria Operations Management Pack Builder vROPs Management Pack Builder In this blog we'll detail the supported authentication methods and walk through an example of each, there are 5 total: No Authentication Basic Authentication Basic Authentication using Session Authentication Custom Authentication Custom Authentication using Session...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-management-pack-builder-authentication-methods</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a4a12cfe2730c04131b0cf</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:41:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_bab8ffcdb2cc498aa0b698f3e0a0a98d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retrieving Passwords from VCF Operations Fleet Manager]]></title><description><![CDATA[We've discussed the new VCF Operations Fleet Manager introduced in VCF 9 a bunch already: VCF Operations 9 Password Management Updating VCF Operations Fleet Manager to 9.0.2 VCF Operations Fleet Manager Upgrade to 9.0.1 VCF Operations Fleet Manager SSH Connecting VCF Operations 9 Fleet Manager Deploying VCF Operations Fleet Manager via OVA Resetting the VCF Operations Fleet Manager admin@local Password Deploying Operations for Networks from VCF Operations Fleet Manager Deploying Logs from VCF...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/retrieving-passwords-from-vcf-operations-fleet-manager</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ade9983fdd64550e6d16d3</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:30:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_b4d22dd1be114863ba8d0e9fa4fb0666~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations 9 Password Management]]></title><description><![CDATA[VCF Operations 9 introduced the ability to manage VCF-related passwords from the Operations UI itself, here's what it looks like this.  All screenshots here are taken from VCF Operations 9.0.2. You'll notice the VCF Management section first, this is the one that includes VCF Operations, Logs, Automation, and Fleet Manager.  These passwords are monitored/managed through Fleet Manager itself.  The UPDATE PASSWORD button is self-explanatory.  The REMEDIATE PASSWORD  button takes a password set...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-9-password-management</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ada4f607e75fffe176a42f</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:55:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_70a9a43ea8c84a63b55288f265e1db5e~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applying Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18 Patch 7]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18 Patch 7  dropped last week, let's apply it!  Log into the Broadcom Support Portal and get it here . You will also need the preparation script provided here .  Once both of these have been downloaded you can SCP them up to /data on your ASLCM VM. First, run the script, mine looks like this. root@vrslcm-bpeterson [ /data ]# ./prep-for-upgrade-lcm_1769078228716.sh Checking for presence of /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/VMWARE-RPM-GPG-KEY ... Checking for presence of...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/applying-aria-suite-lifecycle-manager-8-18-patch-7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a48607fe2730c041316e1e</guid><category><![CDATA[Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:10:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_ac68ea458f3d49548d5b78313bb5d767~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applying CSP-102547 Patch to vIDM 3.3.7]]></title><description><![CDATA[vIDM 3.3.7 Patch CSP-102457  recently dropped, let's apply it!  Download it here . Like the KB says, once downloaded go ahead and upload it to /db/vidm-upgrade on the vIDM VM.  I had to create this directory. Once uploaded, unzip it: unzip CSP-102547-Appliance-3.3.7-Patch.zip Once unzipped, cd to the new directory and run the script like this. cd CSP-102547-Appliance-3.3.7-Patch  ./CSP-102547-patch-automation.sh -f CSP-102547-Appliance-3.3.7.zip -r This will apply the patch and eventually...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/applying-csp-102547-patch-to-vidm-3-3-7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a460209d34acb7c438d90a</guid><category><![CDATA[vIDM]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:11:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_8baeec74c21c490d9e542b8556cd7c39~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Capacity with VCF Operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been searching for un-used capacity lately, specifically ESXi Hosts that aren't being fully used.  Here's what I came up with, if you'd like this Dashboard you can get it here .  It was built in VCF Operations 9.0.2. Top left I've captured ESXi Hosts showing CPU and Memory usage metrics, along with maximums over time using View Transformations.  Once an ESXi Host has been selected all other widgets will be populated.  Top right provides metadata for the selected ESXi Host, including...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/finding-capacity-with-vcf-operations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a34a29875db3f3fae5abd6</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:09:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_ede9ee65b6834e53b84dd85c91bc5234~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations Custom Groups, Custom Properties, and Super Metrics]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have a Custom Group of VMs and would like to know the number of total VMs in my environment minus the number of VMs in this Custom Group.  I first considered a Super Metric against vSphere World taking Total VMs minus Custom Group Population (which is a metric on all Custom Groups), but there is no relationship between vSphere World and Custom Groups, so this didn't work. Alternatively, if I had a way to identify all VMs in my Custom Group I could use that, as VMs have a clear relationship...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-custom-groups-custom-properties-and-super-metrics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a2c9399d34acb7c4365a52</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:38:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_a9dc8996be96458380c1d59b1e0a6655~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations 8.18.6]]></title><description><![CDATA[VCF Operations 8.18.6 just dropped , let's apply it!  Go the Broadcom Support Portal  and download it here. Log into the Operations admin UI and take your Operations Cluster offline. Provide a Reason. Once done go to Software Update. Point to the new 8.18.6 binaries and UPLOAD. Click UPLOAD. Click NEXT. Click NEXT. Click FINISH.  The upgrade will take about 10m.  Once done, the Operations Cluster will be back online and look like this in the Admin UI. Notice we are now at 8.18.6.  Hope this...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-8-18-6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a0e0e7ab2490cb67faddc1</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:54:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_73494499ca314e61bd5c9b8fd57b5792~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations for Logs 8.18.6]]></title><description><![CDATA[VCF Operations for Logs 8.18.6 just dropped , let's apply it!  Log into the Broadcom Support Portal  and download this. In this lab I don't have Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager, so we'll apply it locally.  First, take a Snapshot of your VM/s.  Then log into Operations for Logs and go to Management - Cluster. Select UPGRADE CLUSTER. Click UPGRADE and off we go. Agree to the EULA when asked. And we're done, took about 5m! Back on the Management - Cluster page it will look like this. Hope this was...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-for-logs-8-18-6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a0d047dd752dedab92cff3</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations for Logs]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:05:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_d71b30472e10458fbc343e098d863400~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ESXi Host and VM Secure Boot Visibility with VCF Operations]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was trying to determine what ESXi Hosts and VMs in my lab had Secure Boot enabled, here's what I did. A couple caveats before we get started: ESXi Host Secure Boot property isn't available in Operations 8.18.x, it's not available until 9.0.  You should confirm it's enabled in the Policy/s. VM EFI Secure Boot property is available in VCF Operations 8.18.x+, but must be enabled in the Policy/s. ESXi Host TPM Version isn't available until VCF Operations 9.0, so you won't see that property...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/esxi-host-and-vm-secure-boot-visibility-with-vcf-operations</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6994ae7e6df156fdbea0a9e4</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:48:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_00dd8e443c9048ec9113ca0fc527f612~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations Telegraf Agent Health]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'm running Telegraf Agents on some VMs in my environment and wanted to see their status without going to the Workload Operations - Applications - Manage Telegraf Agents page.  Here's what I did. I first created a Custom Group containing all Telegraf Agents I could use with Dashboards and Views. I then created a Super Metric against Object Type Environment (same as my Custom Group) summing up the number of Healthy Telegraf Agents.  It looks like this. I'm basically summing up the total number...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-telegraf-agent-health</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6992366a884976137da782e0</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:09:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_799cf920736f41f28199f588470eb6e0~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[VCF Operations Diagnostics]]></title><description><![CDATA[We introduced Diagnostics in 8.18 , improved on it in 8.18.2 , and re-imagined it entirely in VCF Operations 9!  In addition to Active Findings (exportable), we have Historical Findings, and the Findings Catalog.  We also introduced Log Assist , the ability to upload Support Bundles to Broadcom Support for SRs. Active Findings are based on two things: logs and properties.  To trigger a log-based finding run you select the REFRESH FINDINGS button. Log-based Active Findings will be shown as...]]></description><link>https://www.brockpeterson.com/post/vcf-operations-diagnostics</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6990a60f6e13a8e14f7f87c6</guid><category><![CDATA[VCF Operations]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:19:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b4065e_347d8d3ae98f471094c21d01afc81093~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Brock Peterson</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>