New Unified Operations Management Experience with VMware Aria Operations
The latest release of VMware Aria Operations as part of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2 has arrived with many new features that provide Cloud administrators with greater visibility, performance and management capabilities with a Unified Console Experience. If you missed the Launch blog for […]
Aria Operations 8.18: New Features and Enhancements Revealed – The Bitstream Liv…
Broadcom organised a briefing for vExperts on the next iteration of VCF v5.2 announced today. Again this illustrates one of the many advantages of the vExpert program; product managers taking almost 3 hours to explain and show new features! A big thank you Corey Romero for organising this. In […]
Aria Automation Custom Resource Types – Update Custom Properties
How to update custom properties in deployments of a custom resource type
Upgrading VMware Aria Operations to 8.17.2 using Aria Suite LCM
VMware Aria Operation 8.17.2 upgrade has been released, the Aria Operations 8.17.2 release notes can be reviewed here, and the patch can be downloaded here. As far as upgrading using Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM), since May 6th the link and authentication from ASLCM out to vmware.com, […]
Provisioning databases with Aria Automation, Cloud Consumption Interface and Data Services Manager – Part 3: CCI Config
In this series of posts, we saw in part 1 how to setup Aria Automation version 8.17. This is required for Cloud Consumption Interface support. In part 2, we saw how to enable the Cloud Consumption interface (CCI) in the Supervisor of vSphere with Tanzu. However, even though CCI is now deployed […]
Using Maintenance Mode in Aria Operations
For whatever reason, you want to stop collecting data against objects, or you’d like to disable Alerts against those objects, what do you use? Maintenance Mode, here’s how! There are several blogs I’d recommend that cover some of this topic already: • Maintenance Mode for vRealize Operations […]
Aria Operations for Logs – 2 – Log Configuration
Configure Alerts, set up retention, enable DOD/FIPS, and AD integration. #OperationsLogs
Aria Operations for Logs 8.16.1
Aria Operations for Logs 8.16.1 dropped today, here are no new features in this release, but dozens of CVEs are addressed. The formal Release Notes can be found here. Let’s upgrade!
Aria Automation and ServiceNow
Aria Automation has a robust service catalog called Service Broker, which allows administrators to publish offerings and for consumers to request them. ServiceNow has something similar called their Service Catalog. You can integrate them, such that Automation Service Broker items are published […]
Provisioning databases with Aria Automation, Cloud Consumption Interface and Dat…
What really peaked my interest was an update from our own Data Services Manager (DSM) product team stating that we could also used the new version of Aria Automation version 8.17 to provision databases using DSM. […]
Aria Operations 8.17.1 HF2
Aria Operations 8.17.1 HF2 dropped a couple weeks ago, KB can be found here. Let’s download and apply it! As indicated in the KB, you must be at 8.17.1 to apply this HF, which can be downloaded here. I am at 8.17.1 which can be seen via the About page. […]
Advanced Capacity Management
Everything you need to know about Advanced Capacity Management. From VMware Aria and Tanzu Intelligence Services YouTube.
Migrating from Standalone VMware Chargeback to Aria Operations
I had the pleasure of carrying out a few migrations from standalone VMware Chargeback to Aria Operations so I want to share my experience along with some tips. Before you start, it is important that you have the correct minimum product versions as listed below. Aria Operations – 8.16 (I was […]
Aria Operations for Logs – 1 – Log Sources
Let’s take a look at Operations for Logs Log Sources. #OperationsLogs
VMware Aria Operations – Auto Remediation
As environments grow in size and complexity, maintaining manual operations processes becomes increasingly challenging and costly. Even the most mature companies struggle to achieve the ultimate goal of operations: self-healing autonomous remediation.
Aria Operations – Analyze Cost and Price metrics
Using VMware Aria Operations learn how to analyze cost and price metrics for various objects in the infrastructure. #AriaOperations
Multiple Environments in Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
We’ve discussed the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) previously, along with all its benefits: upgrades, binary downloads, content management, and more. But did you know, you can have multiple Environments in ASLCM? That’s right, you can, let’s explore!I’ve had a single Environment in ASLCM […]
vKaan – vSphere Health Check – Aria Operations Management Pack
vSphere Health Check is a management pack solution for maintaining the configurations of your vSphere environments. This package vKaan allows you to monitor Cluster HA and DRS configurations and identify non-identical objects. It also […]
Recieve VMware Aria Operations Alerts in Microsoft Teams
This blog is the follow-up to the one I wrote earlier this week about sending VMware Aria Operations for Logs alerts to Microsoft (MS) Teams. This article describes the steps to forward alerts from VMware Aria Operations (Aria Ops) to MS Teams.
Aria on the road – June 2024
It’s that time of the year again, VMware Explore is right at the corner, where once again we will unveil ambitious plans and amazing solutions to our customers Worldwide. Early-Bird registration is already open.
