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Dec 28, 2024

Aria Operations and Tanzu Mission Control

I'm using Aria Operations for my vSphere infrastructure and Tanzu Mission Control (TMC) for my Kubernetes infrastructure, but I'd like to...

Dec 22, 2024

2024: A Year in Review!

Wow, what a year, thanks for reading! I published 94 Blogs this year, here are some of the highlights. There were over 100k Page Views...

Dec 18, 2024

Aria Operations

Aria Operations Configuration Drift

We introduced vCenter Configuration Drift in Aria Operations 8.18 , allowing users to detect when vCenters configurations have drifted...

Dec 16, 2024

Aria Operations

Extracting Diagnostics Events from Aria Operations

We've been discussing Aria Operations Diagnostics since it was introduced in 8.18, here are my previous posts. Aria Operations...

Dec 15, 2024

Aria Operations

The Most Commonly Created Super Metric in Aria Operations

We've discussed Aria Operations Super Metrics several times before, but haven't gone into details on the most commonly created Super...

Dec 13, 2024

Aria Operations

Aria Operations and vSphere Versions

Someone recently reached out asking where to find various versions for things in Aria Operations: vCenters, ESXi Hosts, VMTools, etc. So...

Dec 2, 2024

Aria Operations

Aria Operations Diagnostics Revisited

Diagnostics was introduced in Aria Operations 8.18, which we've discussed previously . It's garnered a lot of attention since then, was...

Nov 30, 2024

Aria Operations

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...

Nov 28, 2024

Aria Operations

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...

Nov 27, 2024

Aria Operations for Logs

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...

Nov 26, 2024

Aria Operations

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...

Nov 17, 2024

Aria Operations

Everything you wanted to know about VM Snapshots in Aria Operations

We've blogged about VM Snapshots in Aria Operations a couple times: VM Snapshots in Aria Operations 8.18 VMware Aria Operations and VM...

Nov 14, 2024

Aria Operations

Capture Powered Off VMs with Aria Operations

Aria Operations gives us the ability to reclaim resources by exposing Powered Off VMs, Idle VMs, VM Snapshots, and Orphaned VMDKs. This...

Nov 10, 2024

Aria Operations

Aria Operations Access Control

You have a group of users you only want to see certain objects in Aria Operations, say for example a group supports everything in only...

Oct 27, 2024

Aria Operations

Aria Operations CASA API

The Aria Operations REST API surface found at /suite-api gets most of the attention, but there is another one available at...

Oct 27, 2024

Aria Operations

Aria Operations API Bearer Token Expiration

We've been discussing Operations and Operations for Logs APIs recently, but didn't touch on the Operations Bearer Token expiration, let's...

Oct 14, 2024

Aria Operations

Authenticating with the Aria Operations API

The Aria Operations API is a powerful way of interacting programatically with Operations. There are several ways to authenticate with...

Oct 13, 2024

Aria Operations for Logs

Aria Operations for Logs API

The Aria Operations API gets most of the attention, but Aria Operations for Logs has a rich API surface as well, let's explore. First,...

Oct 12, 2024

Aria Operations

Comparing VM Performance in Aria Operations

There are some great ways to troubleshoot VM performance in Aria Operations. You can start with the Troubleshooting Workbench, search...

Oct 9, 2024

Aria Operations

Aria Operations API: Adding VMs to Custom Groups

There are ways to get all Custom Groups, create new Custom Group definitions, modify existing Custom Group definitions, and more. But...

Oct 8, 2024

Aria Operations

Aria Operations Audit Events

Aria Operations 8.18 was a big release, several new features were added, including one we haven't discusesd yet: Audit Events. Let's...

Oct 6, 2024

Aria Operations

How long has your VM been Powered Off?

If you want to know how long a VM has been powered off, Aria Operations will tell you. Unfortunately, this is a Calculated Metric, not...

Oct 2, 2024

Aria Operations

Management Pack Updates in VCF 5.2 (Aria Operations 8.18)

Aria 8.18 (in VCF 5.2) dropped a couple months ago with all sorts of updates, we've covered many of them in previous blogs. But, hidden...

Oct 1, 2024

Aria Operations for Logs

Aria Operations for Logs 8.18 HF1

Aria Operations for Logs 8.18 HF1 addresses two issues and 40 CVEs, it's documented here . Downloads are available at the same link,...