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Put Newly Built ESX Hosts into Operations Maintenance Mode until they go Live
You're building ESX Hosts and don't want to be Alerted on them until they go live, how to do it? Of course, you can log into VCF Operations and put the specific Host/s into Operations Maintenance Mode via the UI if you'd like. You can put them into Operations Maintenance Mode via API if you'd prefer. Both methods are covered in a previous blog. Another way to do it involves vSphere Custom Attributes, a Custom Group, a Custom Policy, and a Maintenance Schedule, here's how.

Brock Peterson
Sep 17


Apply VCF Operations Fleet Manager 9.0.2.0300 Update
VCF 9.0.2 dropped several express patches recently, Release Notes can be found here: VCF Automation 9.0.2.0300 VCF Operations orchestrator 9.0.2.0300 VCF Operations fleet management 9.0.2.0300 VCF Identity Broker 9.0.2.0300 They can be downloaded here. In this blog, we'll update the VCF Operations Fleet Manager. I'm currently running VCF Operations Fleet Manager 9.0.2.0. I went to Fleet Management - Lifecycle - Binary Management - PATCH BINARIES (VCF Version 9.0) and downloa

Brock Peterson
Sep 16


Find VM Snapshots with Memory Included using VCF Operations for Logs
We've discussed VCF Operations visibility into VM Snapshots several times: VMware Aria Operations and VM Snapshots VM Snapshots in Aria Operations 8.18 Everything you wanted to know about VM Snapshots in Aria Operations One piece of information that is missing is the VM Snapshots inclusion of the VMs Memory. Ideally we'd get this as a Property on the VM Snapshot in VCF Operations, but we don't today (I've opened a feature request for it). Until that happens we do have visibi

Brock Peterson
Sep 15


Retrieving Passwords from VCF Operations Fleet Manager
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 Deploy

Brock Peterson
Mar 8


Upgrade VCF Operations and Operations for Logs 9.0 to 9.0.1
Yesterday we upgraded VCF Operations Fleet Manager 9.0 to 9.0.1 , today we'll upgrade VCF Operations and VCF Operations for Logs 9.0 to...

Brock Peterson
Oct 3, 2025
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