In my blog series on building a solution for monitoring vSphere Performance we have scripts for pulling VM and Host performance. I did some changes to those recently, mainly by adding some more metrics for instance for VDI hosts. This post will be about how we included our VSAN environments to the performance …

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Last year we started building our own solution for Performance Monitoring of our Infrastructure platform with the focus on the VMware vSphere environment. The components used for this solution is PowerCLI for extracting the metrics, InfluxDB for storing the metrics, and Grafana for presenting the metrics. I did a Blog …

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Following up on my last post on Automating DRS Groups with PowerCLI I found that we also need to automatically remove VMs and Hosts from a given DRS Group. Although I could have included this in the previous script which creates the groups and adds members I wanted to separate them. There could for instance be times …

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In vCenter we have lot's of DRS functionalities. I won't go into all of them here, you'll probably know about most of them already. This blog post will talk about the VM/Host affinity functionality, i.e. rules to keep VMs running one or more specific host(s). There is multiple use-cases for this. You might want to keep …

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