Bursting to the Cloud with VMware Event Broker Appliance, AWS Lambda and VMware Cloud on AWS

I was doing some research on who came up with the term “Cloud Bursting” – essentially the ability to leverage resources in the Cloud when demand for an on-prem application exceeds current capacity – and unsurprisingly, I came across Jeff Barr’s blog post from 2008 (Jeff is the Chief Evangelist for AWS). The way Jeff […]

Data Analytics with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront

About 3 years ago, VMware acquired a cloud-hosted monitoring and analytics platform named Wavefront. With Wavefront, you could send time-series data from anywhere – applications, containers, serverless platforms, etc… – and render charts and get some analytics and insights. Naturally, I got my hands on it as soon as I could and started playing with […]

Scheduled Cluster Auto-Scale with VMware Cloud on AWS and AWS Lambda

This post will walk through how to automatically add and remove hosts to your VMware cluster, by leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, Python and AWS Lambda. While we have the very cool Elastic DRS feature that can scale up and down based on resource thresholds, EDRS is not clever enough (yet) to anticipate when […]

How to monitor Air Quality with a Raspberry Pi

I recently had the opportunity to work on a project with British Heart Foundation to reduce heart and lungs diseases through technology. The team I worked with focused on air quality. It has no obvious link with my day job at VMware but it has been a great experience so far and it has finally […]

Introducing PyVMC: a Python-based tool for VMware Cloud on AWS

Last updated – 19th June 2020 This tool has now been promoted to a Fling and we are now up to version 1.1 with DFW support. More and more of our customers are automating as many common tasks as possible. There are many ways to script, codify or automate tasks with VMware Cloud on AWS […]

Python Tips – Parsing, Dictionaries and APIs

This post will go through various Python tips on topics such as: Parsing Python strings Extracting entries from Python dictionaries and list Making API requests from Python In a previous post, I wrote a AWS Lambda function in Python that synchronized vSphere tags with NSX Security tags. The main coding challenges were from extracting some […]

Synchronizing NSX security tags with vSphere tags using AWS Lambda

This post will walk-through how to synchronize VMware vSphere Tags with NSX security tags via vRealize Log Insight Cloud and AWS Lambda Python scripts. Thanks to William Lam, Gilles Chekroun and Guillaume Vibert for their help with this project. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my career is to listen to customers. It’s too […]

How to monitor and track Twitter APIs with Python and AWS DynamoDB – Summer Experiment #1

This blog will walk through how to capture Tweets matching a certain hashtag and export them to an AWS DynamoDB via the Twitter APIs. This is the first of several silly and mostly pointless experiments I will post this summer. Next posts will look at using AWS IoT, AWS Lambda and VMware Cloud on AWS […]