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Track vCenter Logins with Aria Operations for Logs
You have dozens of vCenters and want to track logins across your estate, enter Aria Operations for Logs! We won't discuss deployment...
Feb 19, 2024


Launch VMRC from Aria Operations
I wanted to use Aria Operations to search for VMs, determine which vCenter managed them, and connect to that vCenter to explore. I...
Feb 17, 2024


Aria Operations for Networks 6.12
I wanted to upgrade Aria Operations for Networks to the latest release (which is 6.12), but my Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager wasn't seeing...
Feb 12, 2024


Send Aria Operations Alerts to Google Chat
We've discussed sending Alerts from Aria Operations to Slack and Microsoft Teams in previous blogs, but what about Google Chat? Let's...
Feb 1, 2024


Monitor Oracle Database with Aria Operations and Telegraf
We discussed monitoring Oracle Database with vRTVS a couple years ago, but there is another way to monitor as well, Telegraf! Here's how...
Jan 28, 2024


Access Aria Operations Views via Internal API
Adapter Instances, Reports, and more, you can access all of these via the Aria Operations API. But, did you know there is also an...
Jan 21, 2024


Add Data Node to Aria Operations Cluster
I'd like to expand my single node Aria Operations deployment to include a Data Node, here's how to do it! Deploy an Aria Operations...
Jan 17, 2024


Aria Automation 8.16 for VMSA-2024-0001
This morning we announced VMSA-2024-001 with the following Synopsis: VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation) updates...
Jan 16, 2024


Edit Credentials via Aria Operations SaaS API
We discussed the Aria Operations SaaS API previously here, detailing how to get a Cloud Services Portal (CSP) API Token, use that token...
Jan 15, 2024


Aria Operations for Logs Expansion
You're running a single node Aria Operations for Logs deployment and would like to expand it, let's make it a 3-node cluster (the...
Jan 14, 2024


Adjust Adapter Instances with the Aria Operations API
Maybe targets changed, domains changed, IPs were adjusted, whatever it is, you now need to adjust Adapter Instances in Aria Operations. ...
Jan 13, 2024


Aria Operations Actions
This is an update to a previous blog done on the same topic a couple years ago. Customer reached out asking for automated reboots of VMs...
Jan 10, 2024


Aria Operations Content Management
Aria Operations 8.2 gave us the ability to import/export content en masse. 8.6 added functionality, including the ability to...
Jan 7, 2024


Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager Content Management
Lifecycle Management is the main use case for the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager, but there are others that don't get quite as much...
Dec 30, 2023


Aria Operations Application Monitoring
We discussed Application Monitoring with Aria Operations a couple years ago, it's time for an update! To be clear, this blog will detail...
Dec 23, 2023


Aria Suite 8.14.1 Updates
The 8.14.1 updates to Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, and Aria Automation were dropped in late November, just getting around...
Dec 17, 2023


VMware Aria Operations Credentials
I used to be able to edit adapter instance credentials here, what happened!? I noticed this after upgrading to the latest version, Aria...
Nov 23, 2023


Aria Automation Resource Quota Policies
We've talked about Aria Automation Approval Policies and Lease Polices, but haven't touched on Resource Quota Policies, we'll do that...
Nov 19, 2023


VMware Aria Operations Alert Hygiene
Alerts, so many Alerts! I just logged into my Aria Operations lab, went to the Troubleshoot - Alerts tab and there are thousands of...
Nov 13, 2023


Sizing VMs with VMware Aria Automation
When I first started building VMs with Aria Automation I would configure vCPU and Memory via Properties on the VM object itself,...
Nov 11, 2023


VMware Aria Automation and GitHub
This morning while debugging an Aria Automation Cloud Template I thought to myself, I should really be backing these up, so I configured...
Nov 9, 2023


VMware Aria Operations Dynamic Thresholding
At its core, VMware Aria Operations is a powerful data analytics engine: consuming data from vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and other non-VMware...
Nov 8, 2023


Adding VMs to Active Directory with VMware Aria Automation
Last time we discussed renaming VMs deployed with VMware Aria Automation, this blog will detail how to add those same VMs being deployed...
Nov 5, 2023


VMware Aria Automation Custom Names
If you deploy VMs with Aria Automation without adjusting their names, they'll look something like this. You can rename after the fact, but it's not ideal. In a previous blog , we discussed how to rename VMs by calling a vRO Workflow (based on a subscription) and Customization Specifications, but there is another way, Custom Names! Let's explore. Custom Names are a way for you to rename VMs (and other things) deployed from Aria Automation. You build Naming Templates to per
Oct 31, 2023
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