VCF 9 Day 2 - Commissioning new ESX Hosts

Do you need to horizontally scale up a Workload Domain cluster with additional ESX hosts in your VCF 9 environment? Maybe you need to deploy a new Workload Domain cluster? Before you can do either of those tasks you will need to commission the ESX host into service before you can do anything. Let us take a look how easy that is to do!
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 13, 2026 .VMware
VCF
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 13, 2026 .
VCF 9 Day 2 - Installing VCF Operations for logs

I’m not sure why VCF Operations for logs is not considered a mandatory component in VCF. In my view it is definitely a critical component because, if nothing else, there is a number of VCF Operations dashboards and features that rely on events from VCF Operations for logs.
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 6, 2026 .VMware
VCF
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 6, 2026 .
New Homelab - Who dis?
Introducing the Super Metrics Repository

In this post, I introduce my new Super Metric Repository which will be stored in my GitHub repository.
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 24, 2025 .VMware Aria
VMware Aria Operations
Super Metrics
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 24, 2025 .
Creating Super Metrics for Counting Ascendent/Descendent Object Metrics in a List View

In this post, we will walkthrough how to create two Super Metrics so that you can include both the number of Undersized and Oversized virtual machines on a computer cluster resource-level view.
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 11, 2025 .VMware Aria
VMware Aria Operations
Super Metrics
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 11, 2025 .
Creating a Custom Resource Action - Part 1: Getting Started & API Discovery

In this Series, using a real use case as an example, we will look at how to replace an out of the box Resource Action with a Custom Resource Action so that the input form can be customized. In part 1 of the series, we will introduce the use case, review terminology around the topic and walk through how we can discover which API call is being made when we request a Resource Action in the UI.
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 5, 2025 .VMware Aria
VMware Aria Automation
VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator
Written by Christopher Lewis on February 5, 2025 .
Operating a Private Cloud - Part 1: Understanding Pricing Cards in VMware Aria

In the first post of this series, we will walkthrough everything we want to know about Pricing Cards to enable end user visibility for the cost of running workloads in a VMware Private Cloud.
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 23, 2024 .VMware Aria
VMware Aria Automation
VMware Aria Operations
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 23, 2024 .
Operating a Private Cloud - Part 2: Creating a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Operations

In the second post of this series, we will walkthrough the steps to create a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Operations.
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 23, 2024 .VMware Aria
VMware Aria Operations
Written by Christopher Lewis on April 23, 2024 .
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