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....

People like to run their vSphere Cluster Overcommit ratios at different levels, based on workload types, capacity available, and more. ...

In the previous blog we talked about Cluster Capacity Remaining in Aria Operations and ultimately showed this to be a metric on the...

We've discussed the capacity-related features in Aria Operations before: Assess, Reclaim, and Rightsize. But we've never gone into...

Aria Operations 8.18 introduced some licensing capabilities. As indicated in the Release Notes , we now have the ability to do the...

Sharing Dashboards has been around in Aria Operations forever, but making them editable was introduced in 8.12, here's how you do it. ...

For customers running several instances of the various Aria products, it can be helpful to tell users what instance they are actually...

We can monitor Linux filesystems and Windows drives in Aria Operations with Alerts using Symptoms and instanced metrics, as detailed here . This allows you to monitor every Linux fileystem and every Windows Drive across your environment. By default there is one Alert monitoring all Linux fileystems and Windows drives, shown below. As you can see, it's defined by two Symptoms, each with a different threshold. Looking at the Symptoms in more detail we can see Operations is e

I wanted to send Aria Operations Reports to Google Drive, but couldn't find an email to use, couldn't find a Webhook to send to, but did...

Aria Operations does a nice job of getting Guest Filesystem/Drive related metrics, specifically Total Capacity, Utilization, and Utilization (%). If you Activate the Instanced State for these metrics you'll get them for filesystem/drive instances, think Windows drives (D:\, E:\, ...) and Linux Filesystem (/, /boot, /tmp, ...) You'll notice there are metrics for File System Free, but none for File System Free %, which is what I want. So, let's create a Super Metric. First g

Yesterday we released Aria Operations 8.18.3 and Operations for Logs 8.18.3 , today we dropped Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18 Product Support Pack (PSP) 5 to support those new releases. Log into the Broadcom Support Portal and download PSP, it'll look like this. Once downloaded (.pspak) log into Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager and go to Lifecycle Operations - Settings - Product Support Pack. Click UPLOAD and select your recently downloaded .pspak. Click IMPORT. Clicking on

I was looking for a way to determine metric peaks in Aria Operations and how long they stayed at those peaks. Initially I considered the...