In our last post we discussed the VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly AVI), today we'll...

Back in June 2019 VMware announced it's intent to acquire AVI Networks, a month later and the acquisition was complete. Since then, the...

VMware Aria Operations 8.12 HF2 just dropped, here's how to apply it to your Aria Operations deployment via Aria Suite Lifecycle. Log...

Telegraf Agents are a great way to capture OS-level metrics, monitor services and processes, and gain visibility into Applications. We've discussed many of these things already, but in Aria Operations 8.12 (and Aria Operations SaaS January 2023 ) we now have HA for data collection from Telegraf Agents, implemented via Collector Groups (CG) and a Virtual IP, let's have a look! I've deployed two new Cloud Proxies (vr-cg-cp-1 and vr-cg-cp-2), I will use these to create the Col

VMware vSAN monitoring has been available in Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) for quite some time. Originally, as a part...

The Aria Operations SaaS July 2023 release was made IA this past week, a couple things stand out to me: Search enhancements from the...

VMware Aria Operations 8.12 recently dropped , with all sorts of goodies! The announcement blog can be found here . Cost and Price have been around for several releases now, but Aria Operations 8.12 introduced the new Cost Analysis feature! Let's explore. Selecting Cost Analysis gives us three options. Let's start with the Cost tile, click ANALYSE Give your Analysis a name, then select the metric you'd like to analyze from the Metrics dropdown, the Objects against which yo

You'd like to allocate more CPU, Memory, and Disk to several VMs in a vSphere Cluster, but you're not sure they'll fit, what to do? ...

VMware recently dropped Aria Operations 8.12 and Aria Operations SaaS (April 2023). We've already discussed a few things here, including...

One of the main differences between Aria Operations and Aria Operations SaaS is Near-Real Time Monitoring for vSphere objects, which...

VMs have dozens of metrics and properties, sometimes you want to capture them via API, here's how you do it. In this case we'll focus on properties, but the same holds for metrics. Go to https:your_vrops_fqdn_here\suite-api and authenticate. Once authenticated run a GET /api/resources with ResourceKind VirtualMachine to list all VMs. Click Execute, the Curl looks like this: The Response body will contain your VMs. Let's explore the properties for this VM: vr84-cluster-d.tvs.

Last time we discussed Aria Operations Badge Health , this time we'll define the Workload Badge. I personally think of Workload as how...

A couple weeks ago we released Aria Operations 8.12 , it had a few bugs, so this past weekend we released 8.12 HF1 , I applied it in my lab this morning via the Aria Operations Lifecycle Manager. First, download the patch itself. Once complete, it'll indicate as much. Go to Environments, select your environment, the Operations tab, the three dots, Patches, and Install Patch. You'll then be prompted for confirmation. Click INSTALL and watch the progress. Back in your environme

VMware Aria Operations 8.12 dropped recently with all sorts of great new features, while exploring one of them I went down the rabbit...

Originally brought to market in vROps 8.4, Automation Central has received several updates in the latest version, Aria Operations 8.12. ...

VMware dropped new releases for their Aria Suite this past week: Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Automation, Aria...

We dropped VMware Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, and Aria Automation 8.12 yesterday, let's update! First, a few helpful links: Aria Operations 8.12 Release Notes | Aria Operations 8.12 Blog Aria Operations for Logs 8.12 Release Notes | Aria Operations for Logs 8.12 Blog Aria Automation 8.12 Release Notes | Aria Automation 8.12 Blog Let's start by upgrading Aria Lifecycle Manager (formerly vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager) to 8.12, which will give us the nece

Today's blog is brought to you by VMware Senior Staff Cloud Solution Architect Trey Lanier. Trey has been an integral member of the Multi-Cloud Management team within the Cloud Management Business Unit at VMware for the past eight years. Yes, availability monitoring via Ping/ICMP is still a thing! I have Aria Operations customers that still have a script or second product running that is simply pinging everything in their infrastructure. But is a failed Ping to a VM or an

VMware Aria Operations can provide both Costing and Pricing metrics, we've discussed VM Costing previously, but this blog will focus on...

As you know, VM Snapshots can consume space and cause performance issues in your vSphere environment. Because of that, we want to maintain proper VM Snapshot hygiene. We'd like to know which VMs have Snapshots, how big they are, how old they are, and more. Out of the box, Aria Operations provides visibility into several different VM Snapshots metrics and properties. We can see things like Snapshot size, Creator, and Number of Days Old, among others. I'd also like to know

The ability to rightsize VMs is a powerful feature of Aria Operations, one that we've discussed before . VMware Staff Technical Marketing Architect Brandon Gordon recently provided an update to his exhaustive blog on VM Rightsizing as well, you can find it here . Within the UI, you can exclude VMs from Rightsizing by selecting the VM and choosing EXCLUDE VM(S). What if you want to do this programmatically? API! In this we'll use both the Public API and Internal API. First

You've deployed VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations or vROps), configured your vCenter Adapters, and are now seeing data!...

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. ...

VMware Aria Operations provides VM OS Uptime in seconds, how do we convert that to minutes, or hours, or days? Super Metrics ! You want to know the average VM CPU Usage for all VMs in a vCenter, how can we determine that? Super Metrics! You'd like to know ESXi Host properties/metrics and Cluster properties/metrics related to VMs, how can I relate them? Super Metrics! There are a couple blogs I'd like to highlight before digging in, the first is from VMware Principal Techni