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Cluster Capacity with a Super Metric in VCF Operations
I wanted to know when Cluster CPU, Memory, and Disk were all below 50%, here's how I did it! Just listing Clusters and sorting theese...

Brock Peterson
Jun 30, 2025


Importing VCF Operations for Logs 9 into VCF Operations 9 via Fleet Manager
We previously upgraded Aria Operations 8.18.3 to VCF Operations 9: first we did it directly then we did it via the Aria Suite Lifecycle...

Brock Peterson
Jun 24, 2025


Connecting VCF Operations 9 Fleet Manager
We previously upgraded Aria Operations 8.18.3 to VCF Operations 9 via the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager, which deployed the Fleet Manager...

Brock Peterson
Jun 22, 2025


Licensing your new VCF Operations 9 Environment
We recently upgraded to VCF Operations 9 and now have to license our new environment, which is a bit different than previous releases,...

Brock Peterson
Jun 22, 2025


Upgrade Aria Operations 8.18.3 to VCF Operations 9.0 via Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
In our previous blog we discussed upgrading Aria Operations 8.18.3 to VCF Operations 9.0 via the Admin UI. Here we will show how to do...

Brock Peterson
Jun 21, 2025


Upgrade Aria Operations 8.18.3 to VCF Operations 9.0
VCF 9 dropped earlier this week, let's see what upgades looks like! I'm going to start minimal and work my way into a fresh deploy of...

Brock Peterson
Jun 21, 2025


Aria Operations for Logs Export Events and Charts
We recently discussed pulling events from Operations for Logs via API , but I also discovered something in the UI people might like to...

Brock Peterson
Jun 19, 2025


Aria Operations Super Metric attaching Datastore Metrics to Clusters
I was working on an Aria Operations Dashboard focused on Cluster capacity, it looked like this. In the middle widget (the list view), I have several different metrics for the Clusters: CPU, Memory, Disk, etc. But I wanted to include Datastore Disk Space metrics here as well, related to a specific Datastore. My first thought, use the related objects capability introduced in 8.18 . Unfortunately, Cluster to datastore isn't a 1-1 mapping, and there is no way to filter just th

Brock Peterson
Jun 15, 2025


How to Make Diagnostics Visible in Aria Operations for ReadOnly Users
I was logging into Aria Operations (8.18.3 (24746341)) with my personal account and seeing this. You'll notice two blades missing on the...

Brock Peterson
Jun 14, 2025


Pull Events from the Aria Operations for Logs API
I wanted to pull events out of Aria Operations for Logs via API, so I started exploring the available endpoints. The Operations for Logs...

Brock Peterson
Jun 10, 2025


Adjusting the Report Email Header in Aria Operations
In VCF Operations you have the ability to schedule Reports and email them. They come in looking like this, with a header in bold saying...

Brock Peterson
Jun 5, 2025


Aria Operations Custom Group Custom Properties
I had a Dashboard (and View) with a list of ESXi Hosts, the parent Cluster they were in, but also wanted the name of the Custom Group...

Brock Peterson
Jun 3, 2025


Two-Phase Aria Automation 8.18.1 Deployment
When downloading the Aria Suite Lifecycle Easy Installer for Aria Automation recently I noticed Aria Automation has an OVA. I've only...

Brock Peterson
May 26, 2025


ESXi Host CPU Contention in Aria Operations
ESXi Hosts have dozen of metrics in Aria Operations, one of them is CPU Contention (%). As the hover indicates, this represents the...

Brock Peterson
May 25, 2025


Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 via Admin UI
Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 dropped yesterday, fixing a few bugs and addressing several CVEs, it was announced here . It can be applied to...

Brock Peterson
May 23, 2025


Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 Update via Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
Aria Operations 8.18 HF6 dropped this morning, it can be applied to any 8.18.x environments. Let's download it and apply it vis Aria...

Brock Peterson
May 22, 2025


vSphere Tags on Clusters in Aria Operations
vSphere VMs have this concept of "Notes" in vCenter, which are pulled into Aria Operations quite nicely. They look like this. This works...

Brock Peterson
May 21, 2025


Adding Aria Operations and Operations for Logs into a freshly deployed Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
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

Brock Peterson
May 18, 2025


Fresh Deploy of Aria Automation 8.18.1
To go along with my fresh deployments of Operations and Operations for Logs, I wanted a fresh deployment of Automation, here goes. I...

Brock Peterson
May 14, 2025


Fresh Deploy of Aria Operations for Logs 8.18.3
We deployed Aria Operations earlier this week, let's now do Aria Operations for Logs! The latest version of Logs is 8.18.3 and can be...

Brock Peterson
May 11, 2025


Fresh Deploy of Aria Operations 8.18.3
It's been a while since I freshly deployed Aria Operations, so let's see what it looks like with Operations 8.18.3. For the record, I...

Brock Peterson
May 8, 2025


Aria Operations Inventory
Aria Operations Inventory got an update in 8.18 , here's what it looks like now, this screenshot is taken from 8.18.3 (24521408). Up top...

Brock Peterson
May 5, 2025


Cluster Availability % in Aria Operations
Looking to determine vSphere Cluster availability in Aria Operations? We introduced a metric called Cluster Availability (%) back in...

Brock Peterson
May 2, 2025


Creating Dell EMC PowerEdge Adapter Instances Programmatically in Aria Operations
I published a blog recently focused on creating HPE ProLiant Adapter Instances in Aria Operations. I wanted another one for Dell EMC...

Brock Peterson
May 1, 2025
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