This is an update to a previous blog done on the same topic a couple years ago. Customer reached out asking for automated reboots of VMs...

Aria Operations 8.2 gave us the ability to import/export content en masse. 8.6 added functionality, including the ability to...

Lifecycle Management is the main use case for the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager, but there are others that don't get quite as much...

We discussed Application Monitoring with Aria Operations a couple years ago, it's time for an update! To be clear, this blog will detail...

The 8.14.1 updates to Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, and Aria Automation were dropped in late November, just getting around...

I used to be able to edit adapter instance credentials here, what happened!? I noticed this after upgrading to the latest version, Aria...

We've talked about Aria Automation Approval Policies and Lease Polices, but haven't touched on Resource Quota Policies, we'll do that...

Alerts, so many Alerts! I just logged into my Aria Operations lab, went to the Troubleshoot - Alerts tab and there are thousands of...

When I first started building VMs with Aria Automation I would configure vCPU and Memory via Properties on the VM object itself,...

This morning while debugging an Aria Automation Cloud Template I thought to myself, I should really be backing these up, so I configured...

At its core, VMware Aria Operations is a powerful data analytics engine: consuming data from vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and other non-VMware...

Last time we discussed renaming VMs deployed with VMware Aria Automation, this blog will detail how to add those same VMs being deployed...

If you deploy VMs with Aria Automation without adjusting their names, they'll look something like this. You can rename after the fact, but it's not ideal. In a previous blog , we discussed how to rename VMs by calling a vRO Workflow (based on a subscription) and Customization Specifications, but there is another way, Custom Names! Let's explore. Custom Names are a way for you to rename VMs (and other things) deployed from Aria Automation. You build Naming Templates to per

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, Datastores, Services, Databases, any Aria Operations aware object type, in an effort to collectively define a potential Business Application. Similar to Customer Groups, but more powerful, with the ability to in fact contain Custom Groups. Documentation can be found here , let's explore. Go to Environment - Business Applications - ADD. Giv

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...