VMware Health and Security Toolkit: The New Standard for vSphere & VCF Assessments

19 december 2025 VMware
In modern datacenters, VMware environments have become the beating heart of digital operations. They’re powerful, flexible, and deeply integrated into business‑critical workflows. But as these environments grow, so does the complexity of keeping them healthy, secure, and aligned with best practices. For years, VMware administrators relied on tools like vHealthAnalyzer…

Safeguarding Your VCF 9 Deployment: Backup Configuration Essentials

8 december 2025 Cloud Foundation VMware
In the world of modern digital infrastructure, resilience is not optional—it’s a necessity. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 brings powerful capabilities for managing private cloud environments, but even the most advanced platforms are vulnerable to failures, misconfigurations, or unforeseen disruptions. That’s why configuring backups is one of the very first…

Using PowerShell for Aria OPS API

8 juli 2025 Cloud Foundation Powershell Script VMware
In a previous article, I wrote about accessing the Aria OPS Chargeback API. In that article, I used Postman for testing the API calls. I also wrote that I would convert those Postman API calls into a Powershell script. So here goes… The steps to generate a bill and to…

SDDC Manager – this operation is not allowed

22 mei 2025 Cloud Foundation Solutions VMware
This week I was working with SDDC Manager when I noticed that many operations were disabled. When I hovered over the Backup button I got a messagebox “This operation is not allowed because 3797ad0d-181d-43e5-827e-ba2c6913b89d operation(s) are working on related resources.” I got the same message when I tried to rotate…

Quota warning deploying Cloud Director vApp

14 mei 2025 Cloud Director VMware
When a customer deployed a vApp into Cloud Director they got a warning about their storage quota. At first we couldn’t figure out why this happened because the vApp should easily fit. But once again, RTFM! In the documentation there is a section about this: When you deploy a vApp…

Using API for Aria OPS Chargeback

11 april 2025 Cloud Director PowerCli Powershell Script VMware
From https://blogs.vmware.com/cloudprovider/2024/02/chargeback-integration-into-aria-operations.html: With the introduction of VMware Aria Operations version 8.16, there is a notable transformation in the way Chargeback is handled. In this release, Chargeback undergoes complete integration into VMware Aria Operations. In contrast to previous versions, Chargeback is no longer a standalone application; rather, it has been smoothly…

Unable to set reservation on Org VDC

27 maart 2025 Cloud Director Solutions VMware
Last week, we got a message from one of our customers that they could not start a VM. They got this error: The first thing I did was to see if this was a known issue. I stumbled upon this article: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/388325/error-total-memory-required-for-all-vms.html The article says that this matter is documented…

Veeam Tweaks

29 november 2024 Solutions Veeam
Every now and then, your Veeam server does not behave as you expect it to, or you want to change certain behavior. Then, you have to tweak your server a bit to persuade it to behave differently. Renaming tape mediaset Mediasets can have dynamic names or static names. But what…