Category : VMware

Written by Christopher Lewis on February 6, 2026 .

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.

VMware VCF

Written by Christopher Lewis on January 21, 2026 .

New Year, New Homelab? Well not quite, but like a lot of the community, I have moved my homelab into the Minisforum MS-A2 form factor and I sincerely hope 2026 will see even more content creation with my newly upgraded homelab!

VMware VCF homelab

Written by Christopher Lewis on April 24, 2025 .

In this post, I introduce my new Super Metric Repository which will be stored in my GitHub repository.

VMware Aria VMware Aria Operations Super Metrics

Written by Christopher Lewis on April 11, 2025 .

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.

VMware Aria VMware Aria Operations Super Metrics

Written by Christopher Lewis on February 5, 2025 .

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.

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Written by Christopher Lewis on April 23, 2024 .

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.

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Written by Christopher Lewis on April 23, 2024 .

In the second post of this series, we will walkthrough the steps to create a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Operations.

VMware Aria VMware Aria Operations

Written by Christopher Lewis on April 23, 2024 .

In the third post of this series, we will walkthrough the steps to create a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Automation.

VMware Aria VMware Aria Automation

Written by Christopher Lewis on March 7, 2024 .

In part four of this five post blog series, we will continue our #Zero2Hero journey in understanding the authoring of Multiple Virtual Machine VMware Cloud Templates. We will continue with working towards the use case for deploy multiple virtual machines (with additional on-demand disk configurations) by looking at the Single Machine - Multiple Disks (with additional on-demand disk configurations) VMware Cloud Template.

VMware Aria VMware Aria Automation

Written by Christopher Lewis on March 7, 2024 .

In the final part of this five post blog series, we will complete our #Zero2Hero journey by looking at how we can deploy multiple machines each with identical additional on-demand disk configurations. In this final post we will at the last stop on our journey and review the final VMware Cloud Template!

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