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 […]

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 […]