Aria on the road – April 2023
VMware’s Multi-Cloud Management portfolio is in full expansion, it’s SaaS offerings receives constant updates as its on-premises counterparts as well. It does not need much to miss some news or important information. Don’t worry !!! I did a review of all the greatest […]
Introducing Management Pack for VMware Aria Operations – Integration with VMware Aria Operations for Applications
Enterprise IT and businesses are recognizing that their technology architecture is their business architecture – they need integrated context visibility across their business architecture to drive business value. As enterprises adopt multi-cloud strategies and cloud-native application architectures built on containers, Kubernetes, and microservices, they continue to manage traditional application estates and an expanding array of … Continued The post Introducing Management Pack for VMware…Read More
Exclude VMs from Rightsizing via API in VMware Aria Operations
The ability to rightsize VMs is a powerful feature of Aria Operations, one that we’ve discussed before. VMware Staff Technical Marketing Architect Brandon Gordon recently provided an update to his exhaustive blog on VM Rightsizing as well, you can find it here. Within the UI, you can exclude VMs …Read More
VMware Aria Operations and VM Snapshots
As you know, VM Snapshots can consume space and cause performance issues in your vSphere environment. Because of that, we want to maintain proper VM Snapshot hygiene. We’d like to know which VMs have Snapshots, how big they are, how old they are, and more. Out of the box, Aria Operations […]
VMware Aria Operations Policies
You’ve deployed VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations or vROps), configured your vCenter Adapters, and are now seeing data! In fact, you’re seeing too much data, in this case Alerts on your non-production VMs you’re just not interested in. How do we turn these off? Policies! Aria [..]
Alert Targets Improvements in VMware Aria Operations for Applications
With the recent release of the VMware Aria Operations for Applications product we have made some improvements to the Alert Targets Browser Page. Alert targets allow a user to specify when and how to send notifications.​ During an alert target creation, you can specify a webhook, an email […]
VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation) March / 8.11.2 Release
Hi Everyone! Here comes the March/8.11.2 release of VMware Aria Automation. Salt Master Plugin Upgrades Let’s start with the most exciting feature of this release. SaltStack Config now provides the ability to upgrade Master Plugin to the latest version directly from the UI. The Master Plugins […]
Alert Targets Improvements in VMware Aria Operations for Applications
With the recent release of the VMware Aria Operations for Applications product we have made some improvements to the Alert Targets Browser Page. Alert targets allow a user to specify when and how to send notifications.​ During an alert target creation, you can specify a webhook, an email […]
Monitoring Plex in VMware vRealize Log Insight
This week, I have been migrating from a nice FOSS logging solution (GrayLog) that became corrupted (my fault) back to the lovely, solid, and easy to use VMware vRealize Log Insight (Now called VMware Aria Operations for Logs). Part of this process […]
VMware Aria Operations: Add Windows VM Service Monitors via API
Today I’m monitoring a handful of Services on a Windows VM, I’d like to monitor these same Services across hundreds of Windows VMs. Adding each of the Service Monitors via the Aria Operations UI will be painful, there is no clone option or the ability to deploy Service Monitors to Custom Groups. …Read More
Upgrade the Master Plugin from VMware Aria Automation Config
With the 8.11.2 release of VMware Aria Automation Config, we have introduced the ability to upgrade the Master Plugin from the new Master Plugins workspace.
VMware Aria Cost New Rightsizing Engine Now Available for EC2, RDS, and VMs
Overprovisioning in the cloud Many businesses still maintain an on-premises mentality where the mindset that the cost of running infrastructures is fixed. Unfortunately, that mindset doesn’t translate well to the cloud, where you pay for the resources you provision, regardless of how much of […]
Usage Portal Improvements in VMware Aria Operations for Applications
With the recent release of the VMware Aria Operations for Applications product we have made some improvements to the Usage Portal. In addition to the dashboard for analyzing overall usage, VMware Aria Operations for Applications supports ingestion policies for usage by particular accounts, […]
Overcoming Alert Fatigue with VMware Aria Operations (Day 0)
In this video, you’ll learn how to use Aria Operations, formerly known as vRealize Operations, to optimize your monitoring strategy and avoid alert fatigue.
Aria Operations (vROPs) can report how many Secure Boot enabled VMs you have
There was a recent Microsoft Windows Update released for Windows Server 2022, when applied to VMs that have Secure Boot enabled, on reboot the VM boots directly into the BIOS and never hits the OS bootloader. […]
Rightsizing VMs with VMware Aria Operations
Rightsizing VMs is critical to get the best performance of your vSphere infrastructure and your VMs. Rampant oversizing of VMs can cause contention at the host or cluster level, which manifests as CPU ready, CPU co-stop, VM swap, etc. Undersized VMs can cause contention inside the guest OS, […]
VMware Aria Automation 8.11.1 is Now Available
VMware Aria Automation 8.11.1 is now generally available containing several enhancements and new features throughout the product.
Intro to VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth (Azure) | VMware
Our “Introduction to the Platform” series for VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth focused on Azure all in one place. Everything from Navigation Overviews to Report Pinning and Dashboard Creation.
Installing salt-minion with Aria Automation
Since the incorporation of Aria Automation Config (formerly SaltStack) into Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation), our automation platform is now fully complete, including a robust configuration management capability. This allows us to guarantee that all deployed resources […]
Manage Orphaned Content in VMware Aria Operations
For the Aria Operations (Formerly vRealize Operations) administrator to manage content within the product as employees leave the company or transfer to another role or department becomes a task that needs to be handled with care. Aria Operations (cloud and on-prem) makes this easy on the […]
