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

Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18 Patch 7 dropped last week, let's apply it! Log into the Broadcom Support Portal and get it here . You will also need the preparation script provided here . Once both of these have been downloaded you can SCP them up to /data on your ASLCM VM. First, run the script, mine looks like this. root@vrslcm-bpeterson [ /data ]# ./prep-for-upgrade-lcm_1769078228716.sh Checking for presence of /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/VMWARE-RPM-GPG-KEY ... Checking for pres

Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) 8.18 Patch 3 dropped last week, you can download it here , and review Release Notes here . Before applying it, be sure to review this KB . It includes a script to be run before applying Patch 3. Let's go! We'll start by taking a Snapshot of the ASLCM VM in vCenter. Once done, download the script run in the KB . Once downloaded, upload it to /data on your ASLCM VM, and follow the steps in the KB. When I run the script it looks like thi

Last week we deployed Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs stand-alone (without Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager). We also deployed Aria Automation via the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) Easy Installer. Let's add our Operations and Logs deployments to ASLCM so we can manage from there going forward. Here's how. Log into your ASLCM instance and go to Lifecycle Operations. From there go to Environments and specifically the environment you built as part of the Ea

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 into Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager and go to Lifecycle Operations - Settings - Product Support Pack. Click UPLOAD and select your recently downloaded .pspak. Click IMPORT. Clicking on

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 for years, one that contains Aria Operations, Logs, and Automation. I'd like to create another environment of the same products, just at different versions, here's how to do it. Log

I've been running Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Automation, all supported by Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) for years, but it's been a while since I deployed a fresh ASLCM, let's have a look. Up on Customer Connect you'll notice ASLCM is available as an ISO. There are a couple ways to do this, but I'll download the ISO, upload it to a Windows VM, mount it, and run the Easy Installer from there. Interestingly enough, the ISO contains the OVA itself. I'

On February 20th the original Aria 8.16 and 8.16.1 updates were released, but we quickly pulled them due to a missing feature. They've been updated and republished, here they are! Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.16 Release Notes Aria Operations 8.16.1 Release Notes Aria Operations for Logs 8.16 Release Notes Aria Automation 8.16.1 Release Notes KB with upgrade details Let's apply them. Aria Operations for Logs 8.16 needs to be done locally, let's do that one first. First do

Aria updates are here, they were released originally on 2.20.2024. Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.16 and Aria Automation 8.16.1 dropped last week, let's upgrade! Important links here: Aria Operations 8.16 Announcement Blog Aria Operations 8.16 Release Notes Aria Operations for Logs 8.16 Release Notes Aria Automation 8.16 Release Notes Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.16 Manager Release Notes Let's get started by upgrading our Aria Suite Life

I wanted to upgrade Aria Operations for Networks to the latest release ( which is 6.12 ), but my Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager wasn't seeing it, why? Well, because the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager Product Support Pack (PSPack) I had in place didn't support it. I was using PSPack 4, which only supported up to Aria Operations for Networks 6.11. So, let's check for an update. Sure enough, there is a PSPack 5 and a PSPack 6, let's apply PSPack 6, which takes a few minutes and w

Lifecycle Management is the main use case for the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager, but there are others that don't get quite as much attention, Content Management is one of them, we'll explore that in this blog. The Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager home page presents six tiles: Lifecycle Operations - used primarily for deployments, scaling, upgrades, certificates, and more. Locker - management of certificates, licenses, and credentials. Identity and Tenant Management - tenants, Act