VMware dropped new releases for their Aria Suite this past week: Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Automation, Aria...

We dropped VMware Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, and Aria Automation 8.12 yesterday, let's update! First, a few helpful...

Today's blog is brought to you by VMware Senior Staff Cloud Solution Architect Trey Lanier. Trey has been an integral member of the Multi-Cloud Management team within the Cloud Management Business Unit at VMware for the past eight years. Yes, availability monitoring via Ping/ICMP is still a thing! I have Aria Operations customers that still have a script or second product running that is simply pinging everything in their infrastructure. But is a failed Ping to a VM or an

VMware Aria Operations can provide both Costing and Pricing metrics, we've discussed VM Costing previously, but this blog will focus on...

You have logs coming into VMware Aria Operations for Logs SaaS, maybe too many logs, how to filter what you need? Log Processing Rules!...

As you know, VM Snapshots can consume space and cause performance issues in your vSphere environment. Because of that, we want to maintain proper VM Snapshot hygiene. We'd like to know which VMs have Snapshots, how big they are, how old they are, and more. Out of the box, Aria Operations provides visibility into several different VM Snapshots metrics and properties. We can see things like Snapshot size, Creator, and Number of Days Old, among others. I'd also like to know

The ability to rightsize VMs is a powerful feature of Aria Operations, one that we've discussed before. VMware Staff Technical Marketing...

You've deployed VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations or vROps), configured your vCenter Adapters, and are now seeing data!...

Today I'm monitoring a handful of Services on a Windows VM, I'd like to monitor these same Services across hundreds of Windows VMs. ...

In October 2018, VMware acquired CloudHealth, at that time, there were two products: CloudHealth and CloudHealth Secure State. Since...

VMware Aria Operations provides VM OS Uptime in seconds, how do we convert that to minutes, or hours, or days? Super Metrics ! You want to know the average VM CPU Usage for all VMs in a vCenter, how can we determine that? Super Metrics! You'd like to know ESXi Host properties/metrics and Cluster properties/metrics related to VMs, how can I relate them? Super Metrics! There are a couple blogs I'd like to highlight before digging in, the first is from VMware Principal Techni

VMs reboot all the time and while most often you won't care, there are times you want to be notified. How can we use VMware Aria...

VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight or vRLI) is a powerful logging platform. It can ingest logs from vCenter,...

I want to use VMware Aria Operations Automation Central to rightsize our VMs during maintenance windows. To make that easier, I'd like...

VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) is up and running and I've been logging in directly with the local admin...

Want to monitor a Windows Service/Process or a Linux Process? We can do it in Aria Operations with the Telegraf Agent. Assuming the...

You want to monitor websites, VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) can help, we'll use Telegraf Agents to do it! Telegraf Agents offer powerful functionality, giving you the ability to do many different things: Operating System Monitoring Windows Service Monitoring Application Monitoring Custom Script Monitoring Remote Checks Remote Checks allow you to remotely monitor targets via HTTP, ICMP, TCP, or UDP. This blog will focus on HTTP checks of URLs. S

In our previous post we detailed how to send VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) Alerts to Slack . This blog will detail how to send VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) Alerts to Slack. We can use the same Slack Webhook URL we set up previously, so this should be a bit easier. Log into Aria Operations for Logs and go to Alerts - Webhook - NEW WEBHOOK. I've given my new Webhook a name, selected Slack from the Endpoint dropdown (t

There are several different ways to send VMware Aria Operations Alerts out as notifications, we will discuss sending them to Slack here. ...

VMware Aria Operations SaaS and VMware Aria Operations for Logs SaaS Services have been activated, you've deployed Cloud Proxies (CP) for...

In a recent blog we discussed Aria Automation Approval Policies , this blog will focus on Lease Policies. Lease Policies are generally used to put an expiration on Aria Automation deployments, things like VMs and Applications. They allow you to destroy your deployments on a schedule, say after 30 days, and reclaim the resources being used for other projects. As shown above, in Aria Automation - Service Broker - Content & Policies - Policies - Definitions, you will find all P

Business Hours dropped in the July release of Aria Operations Cloud, previously known as vRealize Operations Cloud, we discussed it here ....

VMware Aria Automation, formerly known as vRealize Automation, is being used to request and subsequently build VMs. You'd like the requests to first be approved by your Server Team, how do you do it? Aria Automation Approval Policies, let's take a look! Launch Service Broker from Aria Automation and go to Content & Policies - Policies - Definitions - NEW POLICY. There are six policy types available, select Approval Policy. I've created an Approval Policy that will apply to

In 2020, VMware introduced an integration between vRealize Operations (vROps) and vRealize Network Insight (vRNI), it was called the vRNI...