Better & faster vs. Save power! The technological wonders we've created have undoubtedly made our lives more connected, better and faster. Our dependency on IT infrastructures has grown, and so has also the demand for power. But with a passion for sustainability, let’s talk about the server power-saving techniques, …

Sustainability is key for EU organizations GREENHOUSE GAS EMMISSIONS (GhG): We're cutting emissions and costs by optimizing workloads and promoting virtualization. A Green Score in Aria Operations tracks progress with five parameters, to target improvements, these are: Workload Efficiency, Resource Utilization, …

Get wise about Operations When using Aria Operations we should ensure we are using corresponding working hours in the capacity policy, to avoid unforeseen effects on the calculation for powered off VMs. The goal and purpose of this Topic is to show why we should either use the construct “Business Hours” or “Maintenance …

Up and running with powersaving The goal and purpose of this article is to show an example of implementation to accomplish the scheduled Powering off(and on) of VMs in our own On-Premises datacenter the same way Google GCP, AWS, and Azure VMs does it with their Hyperscalers. This article is divided into 3 parts: IaaS …

Powersaving in our datacenter The goal and purpose of this article is to discuss “the WHY” in Powering off and Powering On VMs based on regular Schedule, just the way Google GCP, AWS, and Azure does it with VMs. Why would we implement Sustainable Practices to meet our sustainability goals? This article is divided into …

Dead or alive? Is the good old Pathfinder dead and Modern Apps and Cloud Management Techzone next? Maybe, or maybe it isn’t What am I talking about? For some time, VMware have had a collection of resources assembled as a collection in a one-stop-shop for resources such as videos, blogs, articles and training for all …

What if you are Unable to bring your vRealize (Aria) Operations cluster online because one or more nodes are out of disk space. Let's see if the log disk is the problem and try to fix it The goal is to find out if the Log disk is full and how to clean it and hopefully you save some time with this mini-Recipe that will …

The problem The goal and purpose was that I needed to bypass the "This PC can’t run Windows 11" problem during an installation of a Windows 11 Virtual Machine (VM) in my test environment. This DIY recipe will save us the hassle of googling it once again and sorting out the correct article to try out. This PC …

How-to set up Python on Pi The goal of this little article is to show how I installed Python on raspberry PI. There are lot's of articles out there on the subject, but since I am a beginner, I am running through everything I find useful for my self and as a later notice to myself. This saves med the time and hassle to …

What's the problem? Normally a Virtual appliance (VA) in the vRealize Suite (VRS), aka Aria, will expire the root password you set under the installation within a year. Well, nothing dramatic about that. But, will you remember to change it next year? Maybe, if something told you in a GUI, mail or monitoring system that …