VCIX-NV Objective 7.1 – Administer and Execute calls using the NSX vSphere API
This post is part of my VMware VCIX-NV Study Guide and goes into the possibilities and some specifics of the NSX API. Documentation NSX Administration Guide NSX Command Line Interface Reference NSX API...
View ArticleRemoving VMware Data Security after vShield to NSX upgrade
I put this post primarily on VMGuru.com, taking you there now. Hold on to your butts. An existing vShield environment can be upgraded to a full NSX environment, as described in my VCIX post “Upgrade...
View ArticlePowerShell Friday: Using the Cisco ACI API
I put this post primarily on VMGuru.com, taking you there now. Hold on to your butts. One of the great things of all network virtualization solutions, is that they can be automated using some form of...
View ArticleInstalling vRealize Network Insight with PowerCLI
The good people of vRealize Network Insight made the OVAs of Network Insight 3.2 Import-vApp safe, which means you can now install it with PowerCLI! Network Insight consists of two VMs; the Platform VM...
View ArticlevRealize Network Insight Bulk Import of Data Sources
I’ve been rolling out quite a few vRealize Network Insight deployments (labs, Proof-of-Concepts) and while the installation of NI is a cake walk (see automated installer here), add the data sources can...
View ArticleIntroducing PowervRNI
I am excited to introduce PowervRNI to the world! In the 3.6 release of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) in November, there was a public API added. Through this API, you can offload certain tedious...
View ArticleStoring the VMware NSX config in version control
Almost any organization that I’ve had the pleasure of talking with, uses Git either for code repositories where their developers work or for doing version control on their infrastructure systems. Git...
View ArticlevRealize Network Insight 3.8 – What’s new in the API?
One of my favorite products has just dropped a new version. vRealize Network Insight 3.8 (vRNI) has just hit the downloads and has a bunch of cool new stuff. vRNI 3.6 introduced a public API with which...
View ArticleGetting Started with the NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud API
As with any proper Software-Defined solution, NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud has an API to automate against. To be precise, the Orchestrator has an API to automate against. As you might have read in my post...
View ArticlePostman Collection for vRealize Network Insight APIs
When developing automation and using APIs, Postman is a very welcome tool. I use it to test out API calls and to make sure I format the calls correctly, before translating it to the code of whatever...
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vRealize Network Insight 4.1 – What’s New – API Edition
While I have all new features and awesomeness of the new version of vRealize Network Insight; 4.1, covered in my official VMware blog post (still can’t believe I get to post there ), I thought I’d also...
View ArticleNSX-T Manager: Increasing API requests per second
By default, the NSX-T Manager has a protection mechanism in place to prevent the API from being overloaded. This is a good thing, protecting the NSX-T Manager. But, the increasing integrations into...
View ArticleUsing OAuth for VMware Cloud Authentication
API calls towards VMware Cloud are typically done using refresh tokens. Most examples you can find about the VMC API are around refresh tokens. These are personally bound to a VMC user. Which makes...
View ArticleUsing OpenAI’s [free] Content Moderation API
By now, everyone knows about ChatGPT, GPT itself, and OpenAI. However, OpenAI is more than GPT: you can use their API to do image generation, speech to text, and text moderation assessments. This post...
View ArticleIntroducing AI Spend: AI API Usage Monitoring Made Easy
As an AI enthusiast who has built multiple AI products, I know the importance of tracking OpenAI API costs, identifying abuse instances and preventing runaway apps. While there are several tools...
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