Customer Success Stories
Real VMware Aria Automation, NSX, and infrastructure automation implementations from production engagements.
These aren’t marketing case studies. They’re detailed technical narratives covering the challenges, the patterns discovered, the lessons learned, and the open-source code that came out of the work.
Each story below corresponds to a workstream from a real customer engagement. Read individually, or start with the modernization overview for a complete multi-workstream narrative.
All Stories
STIG Compliance at Federal Scale: Building VMware Compliance Tooling for vSphere 8.0
VMware vSphere 8.0 STIG compliance tooling for federal environments: train-vmware password fix, enhanced InSpec runner with -allhosts, and CKL→CKLB converter for STIG Viewer 3.x.
Dynamic Ansible Inventory: Bridging Aria Provisioning and Configuration Management
Two Python inventory generators bridging Aria Automation provisioning to Ansible: vSphere with intelligent IP resolution and HPE OneView 6.6/8.9/10.0 multi-version support.
Idempotent Windows Post-Deploy: Replacing Decades of Bolted-On PowerShell
Replace decades of bolted-on Windows post-deploy PowerShell with 10 idempotent Ansible roles. Desired-state dispatcher, vault-stored secrets, no more 8-minute sleep timers.
vRO Actions for Aria Automation: When the Blueprint Isn’t Enough
Three production vRO JavaScript actions: dynamic Service Broker dropdowns, intelligent network profile routing, and post-provision disk attach. When the blueprint isn’t enough.
One Blueprint, Three OS Families: Unifying Windows, Linux, and Oracle VM Provisioning
One Aria Automation blueprint. Three OS families. Two datacenters. 26 inputs. The hybrid VLAN/NSX network pattern, count:0 conditional NICs, and dynamic catalog forms.
Infrastructure-as-Code for Aria Automation: Consistency Across Environments
Python toolkit for Aria Automation IaC: aria_mapping.py, mapper.py with NSX multi-profile management, and Federation-aware cleanup. From 2,500+ stale entries to 155.
Production-Ready BlueCat IPAM Integration for VMware Aria Automation
Production-grade BlueCat IPAM provider for VMware Aria Automation. Federation-aware, ABX-based, handles Strategy-4 prefix-stripping for NSX Global Manager segments.
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