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Google Chat space notification for failed vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) backups using VEBA

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It is always good idea to verify that your vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) backups are occurring and if there are any failures, you are notified about them immediately!

As alluded to at the end of that blog post, you can easily build event-driven automation using the popular VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) solution, triggering notifications based on several types of VCSA backup events:

  • com.vmware.applmgmt.backup.job.failed.event
  • com.vmware.applmgmt.backup.job.finished.event
  • com.vmware.applmgmt.backup.job.start.event

I recently built a PowerShell function that would send a notification to a Google Chat space by enabling their incoming webhook integration as you can seen from the screenshot below:


While the message customization is not as extensive as using Slack (e.g. supporting advanced layouts and emoji), it does get the job done and you will know immediately when a backup has failed or when it has started or has completed.

Note: For existing VEBA users (pre-v0.8 release), the function.yaml needs to be updated to trigger off of the subject keyword rather than the type, which is due to replacing the event router with Tanzu Sources for vSphere. You also need to ensure the prefix of "com.vmware.vsphere" is removed along with trailing "v0" as this is the next syntax for vCenter Events once VEBA v0.8 is released.

spec:
  broker: default
  filter:
    attributes:
      subject: com.vmware.applmgmt.backup.job.failed.event

What's in the new VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) offers?

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Since the announcement of the two new VMware offerings: VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) at the end of 2023, I have been trying to wrap my head around the new offers and to better help me understand the next level of details, I have put together several diagrams across the various offers and applicable add-ons that can be purchased.

After sharing these diagrams internally, the feedback was extremely positive and I thought I would also share these diagrams with our users and partners who might still have questions around the new offers. I have also created a short URL which you can access by going to vmwa.re/skus

In addition, we have also published a VMware KB 95927 (Inventory Script) and VMware KB 96426 (Calculator Script) that can be used to help our users understand the new licensing model which uses both CPU cores and TiB (for vSAN storage sizing), please refer to the KB articles for more details.

Changelog:

  • 11/08/24 - Updated with new SKU offers (vSphere Enterprise Plus & VCF Edge)
  • 03/20/24 - Updated with VMware Live Recovery (VLR includes LSR & LCR) and Private AI Foundation Add-On
  • 02/16/24 - Updated VCF w/CSP + new VMware by Broadcom theme colors
  • 02/13/24 - Removed 8TiB minimal purchase per new VMware KBs & updated VCF w/VMware Data Services Manager (DSM)
  • 01/12/24 - Updated VCF w/TAM, PSO and Learning Service Add-On
  • 01/09/24 - Updated VCF w/CSP Add-On and VCDR/RWR/SRM Add-On for VVS/VVEP

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)


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How to setup Harbor registry on Synology

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With my recent exploration of GenAI and using a private ChatGPT solution with my own blog posts, I quickly realized in the space of AI/ML, the required software dependencies can take up a significant amount of storage, especially for a kubernetes/container-based deployment.

To give you an example, to deploy the private ChatGPT (h2ogpt) application using kubernetes, just the container image itself is a whopping 40GB+! 😲

Unfourntately, this is not a one off scenario but a common theme when working in the AI/ML space that the size of the packages and drivers are extremely large even when using containers. I figure I should probably setup my own container registry instead of pulling directly from the Internet given the size of these images.

I already have a local Harbor instance running in a VM but with my Synology, I have been using it centralize a number of functions and that would be the ideal place to actually run Harbor. While you can run individual containers on the Synology as I have demonstrated HERE with GitLab, the Harbor installation processes relies on Docker Compose, which Synology does not natively support using the Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) interface.

With a little bit of tinkering and trial/error, I was able to finally get Harbor running on my Synology and centralize all my storage needs including having my own container registry.

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