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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

I wanted to track vCenter logins across my estate, so started exploring Dashboards and Queries provided by the VMware- vSphere Content...

Last month I published a blog including a script that helped users create HPE Proliant Adapter instances. I've updated that script to...

A teammate reached out recently asking why a View wasn't assigning colors to the metrics properly, like this. You'll notice the color...

I was trying to determine VMs built this month with Aria Operations and came up with this. Top left is a List View leveraging the "interval breakdown" and an "expression transformation. The bottom widget is another List View filtering on VMs built in the last 30 days. This isn't bad, but I'd like to get the VM creator, which isn't available as of 8.18.3. I do have a feature request open for this. If you'd like this Dashboard (and Views) you can get them here . I was also lo

I wanted to attach the vSphere Distributed Port Group (DPG) vLAN ID property to the VM/s using it, so I tried creating a Super Metric for it. This is the standard way of attaching metrics/properties (not strings) from one object type to another. My Super Metric looks like this. I've defined the Super Metric on the VM object type with this formula: max({‌vSphere Distributed Port Group: ‌Configuration|Policies|Security|VLAN ID, depth=1}) I've chosen the vDGP property I want,

If you're using Aria Operations for Logs and have installed the vSphere Content Pack, you'll notice dozens of Dashboards, Queries,...

Part of the Aria Operations for Logs deployment is configuring an SMTP server, which is used to notify new users of their account...

Have you ever noticed the Operations authentication dropdown shows your vCenter integrations? You'll notice Local Users, a Microsoft...

Aria Operations 8.18 HF5 just dropped this morning , fixing a few bugs and addressing several VMSAs/CVEs, go get it here ! You can apply...

Years ago we had a tool that helped to automate the creation of Adapter Instances in Aria Operations, allowing you to easily create...

We've discussed Compliance capabilities in Aria Operations before : DISA, FISMA, HIPAA, PCI, CIS, and ISO. But what if I want to customize a Benchmark, say CIS, and change a few things? Answer: Clone the Alerts/Symptom definitions included in the CIS Benchmark, change what you want, then import them into your new Benchmark, here's how. I've activated and enabled the CIS Compliance Pack as shown here. First you select ACTIVATE FROM REPOSITORY, then once activated you select

We've all been in Aria Operations exploring metrics and properties and noticed some of them are yellow, like this VM. What does this mean?...

We've discussed Certificate visibility in Aria Operations previously, but nothing in depth around vCenter Certificates, let's explore....