We've blogged about VM Snapshots in Aria Operations a couple times: VM Snapshots in Aria Operations 8.18 VMware Aria Operations and VM Snapshots I've also released VM Snapshot related Dashboards, Views, and Super Metrics into my GitHub Repo . In this blog, we'll focus on the metrics being published in Operations, VM Snapshot Age, Size, Properties, and highlight a couple things that aren't super intuitive. Upon deployment, Aria Operations will present several VM Snapshot rela

Aria Operations gives us the ability to reclaim resources by exposing Powered Off VMs, Idle VMs, VM Snapshots, and Orphaned VMDKs. This...

You have a group of users you only want to see certain objects in Aria Operations, say for example a group supports everything in only...

The Aria Operations REST API surface found at /suite-api gets most of the attention, but there is another one available at /casa/api-guide.html. This is the Cluster and Slice Administration API, and while not Swagger based, it's fairly detailed. It provides a surface for API endpoints associated with the Operations Cluster itself, Status, Nodes, Management, and more. Let's explore. First, we'll authenticate using Basic Auth: We can use that accessToken in all subsequent ca

We've been discussing Operations and Operations for Logs APIs recently, but didn't touch on the Operations Bearer Token expiration, let's...

The Aria Operations API is a powerful way of interacting programatically with Operations. There are several ways to authenticate with...

The Aria Operations API gets most of the attention, but Aria Operations for Logs has a rich API surface as well, let's explore. First,...

There are some great ways to troubleshoot VM performance in Aria Operations. You can start with the Troubleshooting Workbench, search...

There are ways to get all Custom Groups, create new Custom Group definitions, modify existing Custom Group definitions, and more. But...

Aria Operations 8.18 was a big release, several new features were added, including one we haven't discusesd yet: Audit Events. Let's...

If you want to know how long a VM has been powered off, Aria Operations will tell you. Unfortunately, this is a Calculated Metric, not one that exists on the VM object types. There are times I'd like to use this metric in a View, Dashboard, Alert/Sympton, but can't. So, I started looking around and low and behold, a former VMware TAM published a video on exactly this , here's how you do it. First, initialize your Super Metric to 0, which is where we'll start. Assuming we're

Aria 8.18 (in VCF 5.2) dropped a couple months ago with all sorts of updates, we've covered many of them in previous blogs. But, hidden...

Aria Operations for Logs 8.18 HF1 addresses two issues and 40 CVEs, it's documented here . Downloads are available at the same link,...

Aria Operations 8.18 introduced the ability to use Cloud Proxys (CP) for log forwarding . Specifically, you can deploy a CP from Aria...

Last week I blogged about upgrading one of my Aria Operations 8.18 instances to 8.18.1 via the Admin UI, here we'll do it via Aria Suite...

Aria Operations 8.18.1 dropped today, Release Notes can be found here . There is a more detailed KB discussing the updates and CVEs...

Now that we've deployed the Aria Operations Management Pack Builder (MPB) , let's build one. In this case, we'll develop one for Rubrik...

With the most recent announcement that many of the Aria Operations Management Packs are going EOGS , it's a good opportunity to...

Aria Operations 8.18 introduced a great new feature called Diagnostics, which we previously discussed here . It highlights VMware Cloud...

I blogged previously about Aria Operations Dynamic Thresholding , but wanted to provide an update based on changes implemented in...

A colleague recently asked about Smart Early Warning Alerts in Aria Operations, I didn't even know what they were, so I dug in, here's...

vSphere Cluster CPU Overcommit Ratio metrics have been around for years and can be found directly on Cluster Compute Resource object...

We applied Aria Operations 8.18 HF2 via the Admin UI in the previous blog , here we will apply it via the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager...

Aria Operations 8.18 HF2 was released last week , addressing several bugs and CVEs. We'll apply it via the Admin UI in this blog....