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Management Pack Updates in VCF 5.2 (Aria Operations 8.18)
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...
Oct 2, 2024


Aria Operations for Logs 8.18 HF1
Aria Operations for Logs 8.18 HF1 addresses two issues and 40 CVEs, it's documented here . Downloads are available at the same link,...
Oct 1, 2024


Aria Operations 8.18 Cloud Proxy for Log Forwarding
Aria Operations 8.18 introduced the ability to use Cloud Proxys (CP) for log forwarding . Specifically, you can deploy a CP from Aria...
Sep 25, 2024


Upgrade Aria Operations 8.18 to 8.18.1 via Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
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...
Sep 24, 2024


Aria Operations 8.18.1
Aria Operations 8.18.1 dropped today, Release Notes can be found here . There is a more detailed KB discussing the updates and CVEs...
Sep 17, 2024


Building a Management Pack with the Aria Operations Management Pack Builder
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...
Sep 16, 2024


Aria Operations Management Pack Builder
With the most recent announcement that many of the Aria Operations Management Packs are going EOGS , it's a good opportunity to...
Sep 11, 2024


Aria Operations Diagnostics Certificates
Aria Operations 8.18 introduced a great new feature called Diagnostics, which we previously discussed here . It highlights VMware Cloud...
Sep 10, 2024


The New Way of Evaluating Dynamic Thresholds in Aria Operations
I blogged previously about Aria Operations Dynamic Thresholding , but wanted to provide an update based on changes implemented in...
Sep 8, 2024


Smart Early Warning Alerts in Aria Operations
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...
Sep 8, 2024


vSphere Cluster CPU Overcommit Ratios with Aria Operations
vSphere Cluster CPU Overcommit Ratio metrics have been around for years and can be found directly on Cluster Compute Resource object...
Aug 27, 2024


Aria Operations 8.18 HF2 via Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
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...
Aug 26, 2024


Aria Operations 8.18 HF2 via Admin UI
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....
Aug 26, 2024


VM Snapshots in Aria Operations 8.18
I previously blogged about VM Snapshots in Aria Operations, which also included a Dashboard, some Views, and a couple Super Metrics. As...
Aug 18, 2024


Aria Operations 8.18 HF1
Aria Operations 8.18 HF1 has been made available to fix several bugs and address a handful of CVEs, here it is . If the download link in...
Aug 12, 2024


New Views in Aria Operations 8.18 and a Super Metric
The use case seemed easy: show me all VMs on Local Datastores using Aria Operations. My first thought was, create two Custom Groups: one...
Aug 11, 2024


Disabling Symptoms in Aria Operations
There are times you might want to disable Alerts and/or Symptoms in Aria Operations, generally you'll clone the Default Policy and make...
Aug 10, 2024


Diagnostics in Aria Operations 8.18
So many great new features in Aria Operations 8.18, but one stands out for me: Diagnostics. You'll notice Diagnostics right away as it sits top left in the newly designed UI. Documentation can be found by clicking the question mark n the top right . Note that Diagnostics requires Operations to be integrated with Operations for Logs via the native integration. So much information in a single place, representing all things VMware Private Cloud, let's explore. Overall Finding
Aug 4, 2024


Multi-Object Views in Aria Operations 8.18
Aria Operations 8.18 dropped last week with a load of new features, this blog will talk about the new capability to include multiple...
Aug 3, 2024


Monitoring Redis with Aria Operations
You'd like to monitor Redis with Aria Operations, here's how! Note that I'm doing this in the latest version of Aria Operations, which...
Aug 3, 2024


Aria Operations 8.18
What we have done so far: Upgraded Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) to 8.18 Added Aria binaries to ASLCM Upgraded Aria Automation to...
Jul 30, 2024


Aria Automation 8.18
Now that we've upgraded Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) to 8.18 and loaded the Aria Operations, Operations for Logs, and Automation 8.18 binaries into ASLCM, we can proceed with our product upgrades. Let's start with Aria Automation. Log into ASLCM, go to Lifecycle Manager - Environments - select your environment - then the Automation tab. As you'll notice, the UPGRADE button is available now that the 8.18 binaries have been loaded, click UPGRADE Once complete, you can
Jul 29, 2024


Add Aria Binaries to Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager
We just upgraded our Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) to 8.18, which we can still do online, next we'll upgrade Operations, Logs, and...
Jul 29, 2024


Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18
We dropped VCF 5.2 last week which includes Aria Suite 8.18, here are all the announcement blogs! We'll get started upgrading Aria...
Jul 28, 2024
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