Aria Operations 8.18 HF5
Aria Operations 8.18 HF5 just dropped this morning, fixing a few bugs and addressing several VMSAs/CVEs, go get it here! You can apply it locally via the admin UI or via the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager. In this blog, I’ll apply it locally. I’m applying this to an 8.18.3 environment, […]
VCF Operations – How to run a report on the last day of the month
This blog post outlines various methods for generating a report on the last day of the month, including the option to automate the report generation with an external program using VCF Operations REST APIs.
vSphere Cluster Overcommit Ratios in Aria Operations
People like to run their vSphere Cluster Overcommit ratios at different levels, based on workload types, capacity available, and more. Generally, I see Cluster CPU Overcommit ratios around 4:1, which means there are 4-times as many vCPU allocated to VMs in the Cluster as their are CPU Cores on […]
Pull Cluster Capacity Remaining % via Aria Operations API
In the previous blog we talked about Cluster Capacity Remaining in Aria Operations and ultimately showed this to be a metric on the Cluster itself.Can I access this metric via API, sure can, here’s how! First, let’s find our Cluster by running a GET /api/resources or alternatively this curl […]
Cluster Capacity Remaining In Aria Operations
We’ve discussed the capacity-related features in Aria Operations before: Assess, Reclaim, and Rightsize. But we’ve never gone into detail on the Capacity Remaining details, let’s do it.Capacity Remaining as an idea is intuitive, in practice its a projected metric calculated against Datacenters, [..]
Quick Tip: No products found in Aria Lifecycle Manager with VCF 5.2.1
VCF 5.2.1 ships with Aria Lifecycle Manager 8.18. When you attempt to deploy an environment you will be met with the following error: No content found corresponding to SDDC Manager version 5.2.1 This could be due to version incompatibility between VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle and SDDC Manager. […]
Monitoring Instanced Metrics with Aria Operations _ BrockPeterson.com
We can monitor Linux filesystems and Windows drives in Aria Operations with Alerts using Symptoms and instanced metrics, as detailed here. This allows you to monitor every Linux fileystem and every Windows Drive across your environment. By default there is one Alert monitoring all Linux […]
Aria Operations Super Metric for VM Guest Filesystem/Drive Free % _ brockpeterso…
Aria Operations does a nice job of getting Guest Filesystem/Drive related metrics, specifically Total Capacity, Utilization, and Utilization (%). If you Activate the Instanced State for these metrics you’ll get them for filesystem/drive instances, think Windows drives (D:, E:, …) and Linux […]
Using Checkboxes as Buttons in Aria Automation: A Workaround for Concatenating D…
Introduction So buttons in forms is quite useful but Aria Automation does not natively support them in their forms. To achieve this, I found a workaround using checkboxes as buttons concatenating two dropdown fields values together. Here in this article, we go through the setup, covering all […]
Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18 Product Support Pack 5 _ BrockPeterson.com
Yesterday we released Aria Operations 8.18.3 and Operations for Logs 8.18.3, today we dropped Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18 Product Support Pack (PSP) 5 to support those new releases. Log into the Broadcom Support Portal and download PSP, it’ll look like this.Once downloaded (.pspak) log […]
Recently Built VMs in Aria Operations
You want to know how many VMs have been built in your environment over the last month (or 30 days). We used to do this by looking at the Total VMs metric on the vSphere World object and do some calculations, like this.As you’ll notice we are using the Expression Transformation to calculate the […]
Download Reports via the Aria Operations API
I was trying to download a Report via the Aria Operations API recently and noticed a couple things I’d like to share. Let’s have a look. There are a handful of Reports available as PDF and/or CSV.[…]
Unleash the power of VMware Aria Orchestrator by integrating it with the vCenter…
If you ever tried to manage vCenter’s alarms with vRO, you probably knows how interesting this rabbit hole can be. Today, we’re going to see, how to acknowledge a specific alert in a vCenter with vRO and even try to make it as a pro, using some development best practices.
Add Dell PowerEdge Servers to VMware Aria Operations – irgNET
In my previous blog post, I described how to prepare your Dell PowerEdge servers for integration with VMware Aria Operations for comprehensive dashboards and monitoring. This time we will talk about how to configure/add them to Aria Operations. First, get the Dell PowerEdge Management Pack from […]
Monitoring vCenter Services with Aria Operations
The SDDC Health Management Pack gave us some visibility into vCenter Services, but it wasn’t super intuitive. The VMware Infrastructure Health Management Pack gave us more, but Aria Operations Diagnostics (introduced in 8.18) is the latest evolution in monitoring vCenter Services, and it’s […]
Aria Operations Diagnostic Findings „Overall Findings 0“
Diagnostics Findings are derived from vCenter, ESXi, and vSAN events, properties, and product log data that help identify potential problems or informs you about existing issues in your environment.
Cluster Capacity with Aria Operations
We’ve discussed Cluster Capacity before in terms of how many more VMs will fit in a Cluster and overcommit ratios, but nothing generally. There are a few Dashboards that come out of the box: Cluster Capacity, Cluster Configuration, and Live! vSphere Cluster Performance, but none of them give me [..]
Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.1
Yesterday we upgraded Aria Operations to 8.18.2, today we’ll upgrade Operations for Logs to 8.18.1, which dropped along side the Operations release. Log into the Broadcom Support Portal and download the new Logs 8.18.1 binaries here.Once downloaded, log into your Logs UI and go to Management – […]
Aria Operations 8.18.2
Aria Operations 8.18.2 dropped today, addressing bugs and CVEs, here are the Release Notes, and the associated KB. Log into the Broadcom Support Portal and download the necessary binaries, in my case I’m grabbing the Upgrade Assessment Tool and the Upgrade Pak.Log into vCenter and take Snap-[…]
Aria Automation March 2024 (8.16.2) – Private AI Automation Services for Nvidia
In today’s dynamic business landscape, Generative AI (Gen AI) applications have emerged as pivotal tools for organizations seeking to optimize operations, enhance decision-making processes, and gain competitive advantage. AI technologies encompass many capabilities, including machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, high-performance computing, computer vision, and robotics. These technologies are being applied across various industries, … Continued The post Aria…Read More
