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...

The Aria Operations SaaS July 2023 release was made IA this past week, a couple things stand out to me: Search enhancements from the...

VMware Aria Operations 8.12 recently dropped , with all sorts of goodies! The announcement blog can be found here . Cost and Price have been around for several releases now, but Aria Operations 8.12 introduced the new Cost Analysis feature! Let's explore. Selecting Cost Analysis gives us three options. Let's start with the Cost tile, click ANALYSE Give your Analysis a name, then select the metric you'd like to analyze from the Metrics dropdown, the Objects against which yo

You'd like to allocate more CPU, Memory, and Disk to several VMs in a vSphere Cluster, but you're not sure they'll fit, what to do? ...

VMware recently dropped Aria Operations 8.12 and Aria Operations SaaS (April 2023). We've already discussed a few things here, including...

One of the main differences between Aria Operations and Aria Operations SaaS is Near-Real Time Monitoring for vSphere objects, which...

VMs have dozens of metrics and properties, sometimes you want to capture them via API, here's how you do it. In this case we'll focus on...

In the multi-cloud world, we need the ability to migrate VMs and Applications from Cloud to Cloud, VMware Aria Migration gives us the ability to do that. First announced at VMware Explore 2022 , Aria Migration beta was offered in November 2022, and was just recently made Initially Available (IA) . Let's explore. VMware Aria Migration is a multi-step service (SaaS) that allows you to Assess, Plan, and Migrate Applications. The Assessment phase of this service is IA today a

Last time we discussed Aria Operations Badge Health , this time we'll define the Workload Badge. I personally think of Workload as how...

A couple weeks ago we released Aria Operations 8.12, it had a few bugs, so this past weekend we released 8.12 HF1, I applied it in my lab...

VMware Aria Operations 8.12 dropped recently with all sorts of great new features, while exploring one of them I went down the rabbit...

Originally brought to market in vROps 8.4, Automation Central has received several updates in the latest version, Aria Operations 8.12. ...