Using Storage DRS in vSphere 6.5

One of the great features that VMware vSphere has is Storage DRS, that as we can imagine, is similar to traditional DRS but with storage, This is, instead of distributing the count (CPU, RAM…), with Storage DRS we will be able to distribute the load of the datastores, balancing so much for performance (Latency to Datastore) and by space used. With this we will have fully distributed the load in terms of disk!

Measuring our electricity consumption with a Raspberry Pi

Continuing with documents of curious things we can do with a Raspberry Pi, Something very simple to achieve is for example to measure the electricity consumption of whatever we want, In this document we will see how to connect non-invasive current sensors to a Raspberry Pi and measure the cost of our home, since we will connect it to the electrical panel of our house! We will export the metrics to a MySQL database and then with Grafana we will create a dashboard where we can see in a very intuitive way what we spend on and how much!

Using Storage Policies in VMware vSphere

On VMware, One way to be able to catalog our storage is by using Storage policies. With them, among other things, We can initially create tags to tag our datastores, and then create storage policies based on certain conditions that the datastores meet. With this, we will be able to stop worrying about where we store the virtual machines individually and we will try to manage them based on their criticality, yield…

Installing Vembu BDR

I wanted to bring you a backup solution that may not be so well known but that surely meets the needs of the vast majority, we will see in this post how to install and deploy Vembu BDR, What is a Backup product & Disaster Recovery that will allow us to make backups and replicas of our virtual or physical platforms!

Initial Nakivo Backup Setup & Replication

Continuing with the deployment of Nakivo, after installing it, that you have seen that it had no mystery, or if we have deployed it on an appliance or installed on a NAS. Now, We will need to continue with an initial setup, where we will add our inventory, Transport nodes and repositories! It will therefore be where we add our virtual infrastructure or cloud, then those that will manage the backups or replicas and finally where we will store the copies!

Updating VMware Tools and Virtual Hardware on VMs with vSphere Update Manager 6.5

We will be able to continue with another automatic update process, and it is only once we have all the hosts updated to the version 6.5, We will need to update (in this order) VMware Tools and Virtual Machine Hardware. The latter perhaps more optional. We will do all this through Update Manager which, as we know, is embedded in the vCenter Server Appliance 6.5

Bitdefender GravityZone: First contact

I begin with the great Xavier Genestós a series of posts about Bitdefender GravityZone, A great security solution that protects our environment against threats of any kind. In his first post we saw how to install the management appliance, and appliance installation for vShield or NSX environments. In this post we will see a next step, how to install an agent for non-vShield or NSX environments and a first look at the control panel structure!

Getting data from the Fitbit bracelet using Python and displaying graphs in Grafana

How is it going? Today we are going with a document that will surely be of interest to all those who have a Fitbit bracelet, with which you already know that we can obtain data about our lifestyle and such… Well, if you want to exploit this information and see it in beautiful graphics, This is your document! Using a Python script we will obtain the measurements that interest us and store them in a MySQL database, and then with Grafana paint the graphics that interest us!