The VCF SSP is the next evolution of the NSX Application Platform that was available on version 4.x to enable functionality such as the Network Intrusion Detection/Prevention Services (IDS/IDP). Now we have some additional functionality such as real time security intelligence, malware prevention, traffic analysis and network metrics. Broadcom have just released the Lateral Security…
VCF 9.0.2 has just been released, in this blog post, we’ll show how to upgrade your 9.x environment to 9.0.2 First step is always to read the release notes, this will detail new features, bug fixes and any caveats with the update. Now make sure you have your depot configured, and we can start the…
I’ve been playing with the Aria Operations Management Pack Builder over the last week, and have started another educational/tech-demo to integrate Aria Operations with Ubiquiti UniFi. This MP will give a quick overview of your UniFi environment, with interactive widgets. Selecting the UniFi device in the top left will populate the Uplink Graphs, Device Utilization…
My latest blog series has covered the creation of a custom management pack for Aria Operations to monitor phpIPAM, mostly as an educational / technical demo project.In this post we’ll cover the management pack installation and a showcase about the new dashboard we have to visualise the IP Addressing space, and how it links to…
Welcome back again!In Part 1 we covered how to authenticate to your API endpoint.In Part 2 we covered how to create API requests, turn the API responses into Aria Ops Objects, and configured the relationship hierarchy of those objects.In Part 3 we covered the MP Import & Configuration, then created some Views, Super Metrics and Dashboards to visualise the…
Welcome back again! In Part 1 we covered how to authenticate to your API endpoint.In Part 2 we covered how to create API requests, turn the API responses into Aria Ops Objects, and configured the relationship hierarchy of those objects.In this post we will build the MP, import it to Aria Operations and start to build some…
Welcome back to this Aria Operations Management Pack Builder series, in Part 1 we covered how to authenticate to your API endpoint. In this post we can get to the fun stuff. We’ll create some API calls to pull subnet and IP information from phpIPAM, and create some relationships (e.g. Subnet -> IP Address ->…
If you want to extend your Aria Operations monitoring to 3rd party environments, there are some pre-made management packs for a number of popular applications.But what if you can’t find what you need? If it has an API, we can build it without writing code! For this example, I’m going to build a Management Pack…
Most of the Holodeck environments I deploy are on NFS primary storage. The Synology device I have requires an additional ESX driver to enable the hardware acceleration features when using NFS.To streamline the deployment I’ve created a custom ESX image with the driver baked-in so I don’t have to roll it out after a deployment….
In a previous post I did some benchmarking of NFS storage in a holodeck environment. The performance gains over a nested vSAN environment were significant, so others may want to run this for their testing. The automated holodeck provisioning is fantastic for vSAN OSA/ESA deployment but at the time of writing we do not have…