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How to distinguish between classic vSphere VMs vs vSphere IaaS Pod VMs? 

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Not all vSphere-based VMs are the same! This is especially true with the introduction of vSphere IaaS (formally known as vSphere Supervisor or vSphere with Tanzu or Project Pacific) which includes a modern way of provisioning a traditional/classic VM but also a new VM-based form factor known as vSphere Pod VMs.


There was a recent question internally about how you could you distinguish between traditional/classic VMs built from vSphere UI or API versus the vSphere Pod VMs using PowerCLI and specifically using the default Get-VM cmdlet?

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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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Improved vSAN capacity usage reporting APIs in vSphere 8.0 Update 3

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As with any new VMware software release, I always love geeking out and taking a look at the new APIs have been added and/or updated that can benefit our users. Having spent some time automating various aspects of vSAN, I came across a couple of new vSAN capacity usage reporting APIs (vSphere API & vSAN Management API) that were introduced in vSphere 8.0 Update 3 that I thought was worth mentioning.

While vSAN already had an existing capacity API by using the querySpaceUsage() method as part of the VsanSpaceReportSystem, it did not provide granular information about the raw storage capacity that was claimed by vSAN, whether that was for vSAN Original Storage Architecture (OSA) or vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA).

As part of the VsanVcClusterConfigSystem, there is now a new vSAN API called getClaimedCapacity() that will return the raw capacity in bytes for all claimed disks for vSAN OSA and/or ESA which is also useful for those looking to understand their tebibyte (TiB) usage, as that is also  unit of licensing for vSAN storage with the new VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) offers.

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