Last week VMware dropped the 8.14 versions of the products in the Aria Suite: Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Automation,...

Business Applications were introduced back in Aria Operations (vRealize Operations) 8.6. They are a container construct for VMs, Hosts,...

Last night VMware dropped several new releases, here they are! Aria Operations 8.14 and Aria Operations SaaS (October 2023) What's New...

This is a follow-up to our previous blog on VMware vRealize Operations Actions. For the purposes of this blog, I am running everything...

I'm monitoring VM Snapshot Age on all VMs, but I'd like to notify different people on different groups of VMs. In this case, I'd like to...

There are two main ways to stop Alerts from being generated in VMware Aria Operations: deactivate them or put objects in maintenance mode....

VMware Aria Operations has the ability to Alert on almost anything: metrics, properties, events, faults, and more. We can also ingest...

There were several VMware Aria Operations Hot Fixes released last week: 8.12.1 HF5: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/94625 8.12.0 HF5:...

VMware Aria Operations for Logs SaaS has been activated, you've deployed an on-prem Cloud Proxy and are now collecting data. As per the...

I'd like to capture ESXi Host properties via the Aria Operations REST API, here's how you do it. First, let's confirm Aria Operation has what we want: ESXi Host Serial Numbers. As you can see here, Aria Operations does get what we want, the Enclosure Serial Number. Let's now pull it via the REST API. Go to your Aria Operations Suite-API, mine looks like this: https://vr83-bpeterson.tvs.vmware.com/suite-api Once authenticated, run a GET /api/resources against ResourceKind H

There are 80+ Aria Operations for Logs Content Packs available on the Marketplace and they are all free! This blog will discuss the...

Back in the day, if you wanted to monitor your VMware Software Defined Datacenter with VMware Aria Operations, you'd deploy the SSDC...

If VMware Aria Operations is licensed for your entire environment, great, nothing to do here. If not, you'll need to either exclude objects from collection or use License Groups to define what's licensed and what isn't. In this latter case everything will still be collected, which we've discussed previously . This blog will focus on the ability to exclude objects from being collected entirely and how are we going to do that, user permissions! Log into vCenter, clone the Ad

Rightsizing VMs is a core capability of VMware Aria Operations and has been detailed nicely here by VMware Senior Product Line Manager...

It's been a while since I did one of these, figured I'd share it. In an effort to explore some new management packs included in Aria...

As you know, VMware Aria Automation includes an embedded instantiation of Aria Automation Orchestrator , which includes hundreds of Workflows. I'd like to make some of these Workflows available to consumers via Service Broker, let's do it! The documentation can be found here , but let's walk through it. For the record, I'm running an on-prem deployment of Aria Automation 8.13. First, go to Assembler - Infrastructure - Connections - Integrations and configure your Orchestra

You're running Aria Operations and would like visibility into Site Recovery Manager (SRM), we have a management pack for you! The latest...

VMware Aria Operations for Logs has been deployed, you've configured your vSphere integration/s, mine look like this. The checkbox for...

VMware Aria Operations 8.12.1 HF3 is available, you can find it here! This is the third Hot Fix for 8.12.x releases, the others are...

In our last post we discussed the VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly AVI), today we'll...

Back in June 2019 VMware announced it's intent to acquire AVI Networks, a month later and the acquisition was complete. Since then, the...

VMware Aria Operations 8.12 HF2 just dropped, here's how to apply it to your Aria Operations deployment via Aria Suite Lifecycle. Log...

Telegraf Agents are a great way to capture OS-level metrics, monitor services and processes, and gain visibility into Applications. ...

VMware vSAN monitoring has been available in Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) for quite some time. Originally, as a part...