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

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...

The use case seemed easy: show me all VMs on Local Datastores using Aria Operations. My first thought was, create two Custom Groups: one...

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

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

Aria Operations 8.18 dropped last week with a load of new features, this blog will talk about the new capability to include multiple...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

The ability to rightsize VMs has long been one of the most widely used features in Aria Operations. Automation Central gave us even more...

In light of a recent announcement from Microsoft indicating they will deprecate Office 365 Connectors for Workflows, I wanted to update...

When looking at your vSphere Clusters, you will often times want to know how many VMs are facing resource issues. You can do this...

For whatever reason, you want to stop collecting data against objects, or you'd like to disable Alerts against those objects, what do you...

Aria Operations 8.17.2 dropped earlier this week, Release Notes can be found here. It's a maintenance release, addressing functionality...

Aria Operations for Logs 8.16.1 dropped today, here are no new features in this release, but dozens of CVEs are addressed . The formal Release Notes can be found here . Let's upgrade! As indicated in the KB above, here are the Prerequisites Create a snapshot or backup copy of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs virtual appliance(s) Obtain a copy of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs upgrade bundle .pak file for the release you are upgrading to Verify that you are logged in

Aria Operations 8.17.1 HF2 dropped a couple weeks ago, KB can be found here. Let's download and apply it! As indicated in the KB, you...

Aria Automation has a robust service catalog called Service Broker, which allows administrators to publish offerings and for consumers to...

We've discussed the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) previously, along with all its benefits: upgrades, binary downloads, content management, and more. But did you know, you can have multiple Environments in ASLCM? That's right, you can, let's explore! I've had a single Environment in ASLCM for years, one that contains Aria Operations, Logs, and Automation. I'd like to create another environment of the same products, just at different versions, here's how to do it. Log

If you've been using Aria Operations for a while (version 8.10), you've likely noticed a metric called Performance KPI %, defined on ESXi...

We've discussed Costing (and Pricing) in Aria Operations several times before, but never how to add Application Costs. we'll explore that here. If you go into Configure - Cost Drivers - Cost Drivers, you'll see several cost drivers we can customize. The first place to go is Applications and click ADD. The Application Name dropdown is being pulled from the list of Business Applications defined in Environment - Business Applications. This is where we can define our Business

We previously discussed Aria Operations High Availability (HA) and Continuous Availability (CA), this blog will detail how to enable HA...