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VMware Aria Operations and VM Snapshots
As you know, VM Snapshots can consume space and cause performance issues in your vSphere environment. Because of that, we want to...
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Exclude VMs from Rightsizing via API in VMware Aria Operations
The ability to rightsize VMs is a powerful feature of Aria Operations, one that we've discussed before. VMware Staff Technical Marketing...
Mar 25, 2023
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VMware Aria Operations Policies
You've deployed VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations or vROps), configured your vCenter Adapters, and are now seeing data!...
Mar 19, 2023
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VMware Aria Operations: Add Windows VM Service Monitors via API
Today I'm monitoring a handful of Services on a Windows VM, I'd like to monitor these same Services across hundreds of Windows VMs. ...
Mar 12, 2023
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VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth and Aria Automation for Secure Clouds
In October 2018, VMware acquired CloudHealth, at that time, there were two products: CloudHealth and CloudHealth Secure State. Since...
Mar 1, 2023
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VMware Aria Operations Super Metrics
VMware Aria Operations provides VM OS Uptime in seconds, how do we convert that to minutes, or hours, or days? Super Metrics! You want...
Feb 17, 2023
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Capture VM Reboots with VMware Aria Operations
VMs reboot all the time and while most often you won't care, there are times you want to be notified. How can we use VMware Aria...
Feb 12, 2023
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VMware Aria Operations for Logs Data Sets
VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight or vRLI) is a powerful logging platform. It can ingest logs from vCenter,...
Feb 5, 2023
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VMware Aria Operations Custom Properties
I want to use VMware Aria Operations Automation Central to rightsize our VMs during maintenance windows. To make that easier, I'd like...
Jan 31, 2023
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VMware Aria Operations for Logs Authentication using Microsoft Active Directory
VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly vRealize Log Insight) is up and running and I've been logging in directly with the local admin...
Jan 19, 2023
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Monitoring Windows Services/Processes and Linux Processes with VMware Aria Operations
Want to monitor a Windows Service/Process or a Linux Process? We can do it in Aria Operations with the Telegraf Agent. Assuming the...
Jan 11, 2023
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Monitor Websites with VMware Aria Operations
You want to monitor websites, VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) can help, we'll use Telegraf Agents to do it! ...
Dec 28, 2022
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Send VMware Aria Operations for Logs Alerts to Slack
In our previous post we detailed how to send VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) Alerts to Slack. This blog will...
Dec 19, 2022
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Send VMware Aria Operations Alerts to Slack
There are several different ways to send VMware Aria Operations Alerts out as notifications, we will discuss sending them to Slack here. ...
Dec 17, 2022
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VMware Aria Operations SaaS, Aria Operations for Logs SaaS, and their Cloud Proxies
VMware Aria Operations SaaS and VMware Aria Operations for Logs SaaS Services have been activated, you've deployed Cloud Proxies (CP) for...
Dec 14, 2022
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VMware Aria Automation Lease Policies
In a recent blog we discussed Aria Automation Approval Policies, this blog will focus on Lease Policies. Lease Policies are generally...
Dec 10, 2022
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VMware Aria Operations Business Hours
Business Hours dropped in the July release of Aria Operations Cloud, previously known as vRealize Operations Cloud, we discussed it here....
Dec 4, 2022
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VMware Aria Automation Approval Policies
VMware Aria Automation, formerly known as vRealize Automation, is being used to request and subsequently build VMs. You'd like the...
Dec 3, 2022
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VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Networks
In 2020, VMware introduced an integration between vRealize Operations (vROps) and vRealize Network Insight (vRNI), it was called the vRNI...
Nov 30, 2022
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Generate Reports with the vROps Cloud API
So many uses cases for the vROps API, we've discussed using it to delete Adapter Instances and Manage Content, but today we'll focus on...
Nov 20, 2022
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Updated: vROps Service Discovery
In June 2021 I published a blog on vROps Service Discovery, I'd like to provide an update. 8.10 is the current version of vROps, and...
Nov 13, 2022
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Using Custom Groups in vROps Dashboards
Custom Groups are a powerful construct in vROps, most often used to group objects together for use within Dashboards, Reports, or Views. ...
Nov 12, 2022
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Apply vROps 8.10 HF1
VMware just dropped vROps 8.10 HF1, details here. Let's apply it to our vROps 8.10 deployment via vRSLCM. You can also do this via the...
Nov 10, 2022
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Delete vROps Adapter Instances via Suite-API
For whatever reason, you're having issues deleting a vROps Adapter Instance from the UI, here's how you do it from the vROps Suite-API....
Oct 16, 2022
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