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Community Use Cases

This page contains a collection of use cases from users on how they are consuming the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) solution.

This is not an exhaustive list and we welcome additional contributions (Submit Github Pull Request) from the community in sharing their use cases that can help both new and existing users of the VEBA solution.

  1. Send a Slack notification when a VM is powered off
  2. Apply vSphere Tag when a VM is powered on
  3. Synchronize between vSphere Tags and NSX-T Tags
  4. Send a Slack notification when a VM has been reconfigured
  5. Disable vSphere Alarms for an ESXi host when going into maintenance mode and re-enable vSphere Alarms when host exists maintenance mode
  6. Send an Email report containing the list of VMs that were restarted by vSphere HA
  7. Send an Email notification when a vSphere Datastore reaches a certain usage threshold (warning/error)
  8. Send a Slack notification when a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC has completed provisioning using VMware Cloud Notification Gateway (NGW) service
  9. Send a Microsoft Teams notification when a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC has completed provisioning using VMware Cloud Notification Gateway (NGW) service
  10. Execute a vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) workflow using the vRO REST API when a particular vSphere event occurs
  11. Create a PagerDuty incident ticket when a host is no longer responsive
  12. Create a ServiceNow ticket when a host is no longer responsive
  13. Automatically backup VM using Veeam Backup on VM configuration changes
  14. Apply vSphere Custom Attributes when a particular vSphere event occurs
  15. Run a scheduled job (cron) for managing VM snapshot retention policies (age/size of VM snapshot)
  16. Send a Telegram notification when a VM has been successfully migrated
  17. Send a Slack notification when a specific vSphere Horizon event occurs
  18. Send a Slack notification when a specific vSphere Alarm occurs
  19. Send a text message notification using Twillio when a specific vSphere event occurs
  20. Ingest a custom incoming webhook to create a new CloudEvent and forward to VMware Event Router (broker)
  21. Send an email notification when the password for a vSphere SSO account password has been changed
  22. Automatically add instances to vRealize Operations (vROPs) based on vSphere Tags
  23. Automatically associate a newly provisioned VM to a specific vSphere Resource Pool
  24. Apply VM permissions based on specific vSphere Tags
  25. Automatically resize VMs resources (CPU/Memory/Storage) using vSphere Tags to annotate desired state
  26. Send all vCenter Create/Update/Delete (CRUD) operations to external system for compliance/security purposes
  27. Send a Slack notification for a failed login attempt to vCenter Server including client IP Address
  28. Send specific vCenter events to Splunk for archival purposes
  29. Add a VM Annotation (notes) on who powered on the VM and from which IP Address
  30. Add a VM Annotation (notes) on who powered off the VM and from which IP Address
  31. Add a VM Annotation (notes) on who paused the VM and from which IP Address
  32. Add a VM Annotation (notes) on who shutdown the VM and from which IP Address
  33. Add a VM Annotation (notes) on who forcefully killed a VM and from which IP Address
  34. Add a VM Annotation (notes) on who registered a VM and from which IP Address
  35. Add a VM Annotation (notes) on who cloned a VM along with the date and the VM Template used
  36. Add a VM Annotation (notes) on when an OVF is deployed with actual users versus vpxd
  37. Send an email or Slack notification when an ESXi host is no longer responding
  38. Send an email when an ESXi host is disconnected and update Change Management Database (CMDB)
  39. Apply specific vSphere Host Profile and Tags when an ESXi host is added to vCenter Server
  40. Remove unused vSphere Tags when an ESXi host is removed from vCenter Server
  41. Update Change Management Database (CMDR) on VM location when it is vMotion
  42. Send a Slack notification when a VM is removed containing the VM path to ensure no files are left over
  43. Update vRealize Automation (vRA) image mapping when a VM is converted to VM Template
  44. Create or update network profile in vRealize Automation (vRA) when vSphere Portgroup or Opaque Network is created
  45. Delete network profile in vRealize Automation (vRA) when vSphere Portgroup or Opaque Network is deleted
  46. Create or update storage profile in vRealize Automation (vRA) when a new vSphere Datastore is added
  47. Delete storage profile in vRealize Automation (vRA) when a vSphere Datastore is delete
  48. Apply specific storage policy when a vSphere Datastore is added
  49. When a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) Cluster is created, automatically apply specific vSphere Tags with K8s name, backup exemption and usage to both Control and Worker Node VMs
  50. Update Change Management Database (CMDR) on when a VM is created
  51. Update shares in a vSphere Resource Pool (RP) when a VM has been created or deleted within an RP
  52. Update shares in a vSphere Resource Pool (RP) when a VM has been added or removed from a RP
  53. Update storage profile in vRealize Automation (vRA) when a Datastore Cluster has been added
  54. Provision additional storage using vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) when a Datastore Cluster alerts
  55. When a First Class Disk (FCD) is provisioned, update a report on number of Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) for historical data analysis
  56. When a First Class Disk (FDC) is deleted, update a report to remove the number of Persistent Volume Claims (PVC)
  57. When an ESXi host is added to vCenter Server, automatically create a baseline and upload results to external store
  58. Run scheduled reporting against vCenter on daily basis to report on basic inventory/info
  59. Power off development VMs every night based on specific vSphere Tags
  60. Power on development VMs every morning based on specific vSphere Tags
  61. Power off development VMs every weekend based on specific vSphere Tags
  62. Power on development VMs that were powered off over the weekend based on specific vSphere Tags
  63. Power off QA VMs on the weekend based on specific vSphere Tags
  64. Power on QA VMs that were powered off over the weekend based on specific vSphere Tags
  65. Apply VM right-sizing recommendations from vRealize Operations (vROPs) over the weekend when downtime is possible
  66. Rename VM display name to lower-case if they were created with upper-case
  67. Create DNS record and DHCP reservation for the network that a VM is connected to and powered on
  68. When a VM is created, add it to AWX/Ansible Tower inventory based on OS,vSphere Tags and naming convention
  69. When a VM is deleted, remove it from AWX/Ansible Tower
  70. Create vSphere DRS Affinity Host Group for VMs that leverage SRIOV
  71. Enforce Guest OS licensing to physical host cores
  72. Trigger Ansible playbooks based on specific vSphere events
  73. Send a notification when a vSphere Permission for an individual user and/or group has been modified
  74. Send a notification when a vSphere Permission for an individual user and/or group has been deleted
  75. Send a notification from the VMware Cloud Notification Gateway (NGW) service when vCenter Server TLS certificate is replaced to update the new SSL Thumbprint for solutions like VMware Horizon/vRealize Automaton (vRA)/vRealize Orchestrator (vRO)
  76. Automatically refresh vSphere Client Plugin(s) based on specific data changes