This past week we dropped the latest versions of the VMware Aria Suite: VMware Aria Operations 8.18.7 VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.7 VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18.0 Patch 8 VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.18.1 U6 (Patch 6) VMware Aria Automation 8.18.1 U5 (Patch 5) I'm running the following in my lab: VMware Aria Operations 8.18.6 VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.6 VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18.0 Patch 7 VMware Aria Automation 8.18.1 U4 (Patch 4) Let's

In our previous blog we discussed upgrading Aria Operations 8.18.3 to VCF Operations 9.0 via the Admin UI. Here we will show how to do...

VCF 9 dropped earlier this week, let's see what upgades looks like! I'm going to start minimal and work my way into a fresh deploy of...

I was working on an Aria Operations Dashboard focused on Cluster capacity, it looked like this. In the middle widget (the list view), I have several different metrics for the Clusters: CPU, Memory, Disk, etc. But I wanted to include Datastore Disk Space metrics here as well, related to a specific Datastore. My first thought, use the related objects capability introduced in 8.18 . Unfortunately, Cluster to datastore isn't a 1-1 mapping, and there is no way to filter just th

I was logging into Aria Operations (8.18.3 (24746341)) with my personal account and seeing this. You'll notice two blades missing on the...

In VCF Operations you have the ability to schedule Reports and email them. They come in looking like this, with a header in bold saying...

I had a Dashboard (and View) with a list of ESXi Hosts, the parent Cluster they were in, but also wanted the name of the Custom Group...

ESXi Hosts have dozen of metrics in Aria Operations, one of them is CPU Contention (%). As the hover indicates, this represents the...

Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 dropped yesterday, fixing a few bugs and addressing several CVEs, it was announced here . It can be applied to...

Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 dropped this morning, it can be applied to any 8.18.x environments. Let's download it and apply it vis Aria...

vSphere VMs have this concept of "Notes" in vCenter, which are pulled into Aria Operations quite nicely. They look like this. This works...

It's been a while since I freshly deployed Aria Operations, so let's see what it looks like with Operations 8.18.3. For the record, I...

Aria Operations Inventory got an update in 8.18 , here's what it looks like now, this screenshot is taken from 8.18.3 (24521408). Up top...

Looking to determine vSphere Cluster availability in Aria Operations? We introduced a metric called Cluster Availability (%) back in...

I published a blog recently focused on creating HPE ProLiant Adapter Instances in Aria Operations. I wanted another one for Dell EMC...

Last month I published a blog including a script that helped users create HPE Proliant Adapter instances. I've updated that script to...

A teammate reached out recently asking why a View wasn't assigning colors to the metrics properly, like this. You'll notice the color...

I wanted to attach the vSphere Distributed Port Group (DPG) vLAN ID property to the VM/s using it, so I tried creating a Super Metric for it. This is the standard way of attaching metrics/properties (not strings) from one object type to another. My Super Metric looks like this. I've defined the Super Metric on the VM object type with this formula: max({‌vSphere Distributed Port Group: ‌Configuration|Policies|Security|VLAN ID, depth=1}) I've chosen the vDGP property I want,

Have you ever noticed the Operations authentication dropdown shows your vCenter integrations? You'll notice Local Users, a Microsoft...

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...

Years ago we had a tool that helped to automate the creation of Adapter Instances in Aria Operations, allowing you to easily create...

We've discussed Compliance capabilities in Aria Operations before : DISA, FISMA, HIPAA, PCI, CIS, and ISO. But what if I want to customize a Benchmark, say CIS, and change a few things? Answer: Clone the Alerts/Symptom definitions included in the CIS Benchmark, change what you want, then import them into your new Benchmark, here's how. I've activated and enabled the CIS Compliance Pack as shown here. First you select ACTIVATE FROM REPOSITORY, then once activated you select

We've all been in Aria Operations exploring metrics and properties and noticed some of them are yellow, like this VM. What does this mean?...

We've discussed Certificate visibility in Aria Operations previously, but nothing in depth around vCenter Certificates, let's explore....