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Quick Tip - Retrieving vSAN Congestion Health Programmatically

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While catching up on post-Explore email, I received a question from a customer who has a large number of vSAN deployments spanning their ROBO environment. In one of their environment, they had some physical congestion issue that caused some problems for their vSAN stretched cluster and they were looking for a way to monitor the vSAN congestion health, which is available as part of vSAN Health.


Since this information is available as part of vSAN Health, we can certainly leverage the vSAN Health API to retrieve this information programmatically but we can also look at using the PowerCLI Test-VsanClusterHealth cmdlet to get this information in a quicker manner for administrators.

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New PCI Compliance Audit APIs for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2

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One very interesting capability that I had noticed while reading the the latest VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2 release notes are new VCF APIs for auditing PCI Compliance.

VCF users can now use a new set of APIs that audit VCF configuration for compliance with 9 relevant PCI-DSS controls

In addition to exploring these new VCF APIs, I thought this would also be a good opportunity to contribute to the popular PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation which is also the basis for several other useful VCF modules for automation:

To demonstrate the new VCF Compliance Audit APIs, I crated the following new functions which I have also submitted a pull request (PR) 291 to incorporate functions in a future release of the PowerShell Module for VMware Cloud Foundation, which I hope will get merged by the time this blog post is live!

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Auditing vGPU Profile Reconfigurations in vSphere

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vCenter Server Events are extremely powerful and contains a ton of useful information, especially for auditing and compliance purposes. As of vSphere 8.0 Update 3, there are over 2.1K+ out of the box events with many more through 2nd and 3rd party integrations.

One of my favorite vCenter Server Event is the VmReconfiguredEvent as it provides complete visibility into every VM reconfiguration change as shared in this blog post back in 2015.

I recently saw an interesting inquiry about being able to audit and track vGPU profile reconfigurations for a VM and of course, vCenter Server Events to the rescue!

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