We've blogged about VM Snapshots in Aria Operations a couple times: VM Snapshots in Aria Operations 8.18 VMware Aria Operations and VM Snapshots I've also released VM Snapshot related Dashboards, Views, and Super Metrics into my GitHub Repo . In this blog, we'll focus on the metrics being published in Operations, VM Snapshot Age, Size, Properties, and highlight a couple things that aren't super intuitive. Upon deployment, Aria Operations will present several VM Snapshot rela

Aria Operations gives us the ability to reclaim resources by exposing Powered Off VMs, Idle VMs, VM Snapshots, and Orphaned VMDKs. This...

You have a group of users you only want to see certain objects in Aria Operations, say for example a group supports everything in only...

The Aria Operations REST API surface found at /suite-api gets most of the attention, but there is another one available at /casa/api-guide.html. This is the Cluster and Slice Administration API, and while not Swagger based, it's fairly detailed. It provides a surface for API endpoints associated with the Operations Cluster itself, Status, Nodes, Management, and more. Let's explore. First, we'll authenticate using Basic Auth: We can use that accessToken in all subsequent ca

We've been discussing Operations and Operations for Logs APIs recently, but didn't touch on the Operations Bearer Token expiration, let's...

The Aria Operations API is a powerful way of interacting programatically with Operations. There are several ways to authenticate with the API, let's explore them here. First, the Operations API can be accessed at the following URL: https://operations_ip_or_fqdn/suite-api The easiest way is local authentication via the Authorize button top right of the API home page, which you can do like this. The Authorize button issues a POST /suite-api/api/auth/token/acquire and caches t

There are some great ways to troubleshoot VM performance in Aria Operations. You can start with the Troubleshooting Workbench, search...

There are ways to get all Custom Groups, create new Custom Group definitions, modify existing Custom Group definitions, and more. But...

Aria Operations 8.18 was a big release, several new features were added, including one we haven't discusesd yet: Audit Events. Let's...

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...

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...

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

vSphere Cluster CPU Overcommit Ratio metrics have been around for years and can be found directly on Cluster Compute Resource object...

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 (ASLCM). First, let's download the HF2 patch binaries for use in ASLCM here . Once they've been downloaded, we SCP them up to the ASLCM VM into /data. brockp@P794NX491T Downloads % scp ./vrlcm-vrops-8.18.0-HF2.patch root@vrlcm-bpeterson.tvs.vmware.com:/data VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Appliance on Photon root@vrlcm-bpeterson.tvs

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....

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 with VMs and the other with Local Datastores (using a property filter), then relate them via Ancestor/Descendant, but it doesn't work quite that easy. When relating Custom Groups, Descendants work fine, but Ancestors don't. Next I thought of the new feature in Operations 8.18 that allows us to put multiple object types and their metrics/pr

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...

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 Automation, but first we'll need those binaries. We can no longer download binaries directly from VMware Customer Connect, so we have to load them into ASLCM manually, here's how. Log into the Broadcom Support Portal and go to My Downloads, these are the three tiles you'll want. We're upgrading from previous releases, so we'll download th

The ability to rightsize VMs has long been one of the most widely used features in Aria Operations. Automation Central gave us even more power with the ability to schedule rightsizing jobs and we've blogged about it several times. But I've always wondered exactly how the rightsizing is done, here's how! First, we check to see if HotAdd is enabled on the VM, specifically the cpuHotAddEnabled and the memoryHotAddEnabled properties, details on those properties here . If these