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One of the great things about an all-encompassing Private Cloud solution like VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is how much it automates for you. From automatically installing or updating VCF Operations Cloud Proxies to managing critical passwords like the root user’s within the VCF Fleet Manager, VCF aims to streamline your operations. But what happens when …
In my previous post (https://thomas-kopton.de/vblog/?p=2198), I detailed how to track HA-induced Virtual Machine restarts in VCF Operations, including the required symptoms, alert definitions, and REST Webhook notifications. However, in larger setups, with potentially over 20 VMs per ESX host, receiving 20 individual notifications is impractical. This simply creates alert fatigue and undermines the entire alerting …
Someone recently asked me if there’s a straightforward way to notify Virtual Machine owners as soon as their VMs were affected by an HA Event. Apparently, suitable alarm definitions are not available out-of-the-box in VCF Operations, and the customer asked for a solution. Scenario The scenario is therefore quite simple: First Approach Initially, I considered …