I used to be able to edit adapter instance credentials here, what happened!? I noticed this after upgrading to the latest version, Aria Operations 8.14, so I checked the Release Notes. And sure enough, in the Release Notes, there is a section discussing this. Credential management All credentials need to have a user assigned to it. Credentials which do not have any user assigned will be found in the Orphaned and Unassigned page. For security reasons it is highly recommended

Alerts, so many Alerts! I just logged into my Aria Operations lab, went to the Troubleshoot - Alerts tab and there are thousands of Alerts. Alerts can be super powerful, but they can also be noisy and generate spam if you're making notifications on them, so it's important to maintain proper Alert hygiene. What does that look like? Well, first you'll want to make sure your Alerts are being disposed of properly, which you can confirm via Administration - Global Settings - Dat

At its core, VMware Aria Operations is a powerful data analytics engine: consuming data from vSphere, NSX, vSAN, and other non-VMware sources, analyzing that data, and providing feedback to the consumer. Part of analyzing that data is to determine what's normal and what's not, using things like Dynamic Thresholds (DTs) for abnormality monitoring. But, how are these DTs established, let's explore! First, DTs are enabled by default, settings can be found via Administration -

Last week VMware dropped the 8.14 versions of the products in the Aria Suite: Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Automation, and Aria Lifecycle Manager. This week we dropped the 9.0 version of the Management Packs included in the Aria Operations for Integrations Suite. The highlight here is that these Management Packs no longer require their own license, but rather consume an Aria Operations license unit, let's take a look. Looking at our Licensing Page before

Business Applications were introduced back in Aria Operations (vRealize Operations) 8.6. They are a container construct for VMs, Hosts, Datastores, Services, Databases, any Aria Operations aware object type, in an effort to collectively define a potential Business Application. Similar to Customer Groups, but more powerful, with the ability to in fact contain Custom Groups. Documentation can be found here, let's explore. Go to Environment - Business Applications - ADD. Give

Last night VMware dropped several new releases, here they are! Aria Operations 8.14 and Aria Operations SaaS (October 2023) What's New Blog 8.14 Release Notes SaaS October 2023 Release Notes Aria Operations for Logs 8.14 and Aria Operations for Logs SaaS (October 2023) What's New Blog Release Notes Aria Automation 8.14 and Aria Automation SaaS (October 2023) What's New Blog Release Notes Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.14 What's New Blog Release Notes First, let's upgrade Aria Suite

This is a follow-up to our previous blog on VMware vRealize Operations Actions. For the purposes of this blog, I am running everything on-prem, and will be attaching the Aria Operations Automation Orchestrator adapter instance to my Aria Automation embedded Orchestrator, but stand-alone instances of Orchestrator and Cloud Extensibility Proxy (CEP) embedded instances of Orchestrator are also supported, documentation here. I picture it like this. I'm running Aria Operations 8.

I'm monitoring VM Snapshot Age on all VMs, but I'd like to notify different people on different groups of VMs. In this case, I'd like to notify one group of people for old VM Snapshots on VMs named ABC* and a different group of people for old VM Snapshots on VMs named XYZ*. If I were using Tags, Applications, or Tiers, we could filter on this Criteria and Notify accordingly. But I'm not and I'd like to use the VM hostname as my filter, which isn't available as a filter from

There are two main ways to stop Alerts from being generated in VMware Aria Operations: deactivate them or put objects in maintenance mode. Deactivating them is the easy button, documentation can be found here. One way to do this is from Troubleshoot - Alert - Group by Definition. Highly the Alert Definition - select ACTIONS - Deactivate, then deactivate in all policies or just selected policies. This goes into the relevant Policy/s and deactivates the Alert Definition. O

VMware Aria Operations has the ability to Alert on almost anything: metrics, properties, events, faults, and more. We can also ingest Alerts from other platforms like Microsoft SCOM, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Solarwinds NPM, and more via Management Packs. But what if we want to send Alerts from some other platform or a script, how do we get them into Aria Operations? The API! Here's how you do it. My first thought was the Alerts endpoint. After exploring these options, t

There were several VMware Aria Operations Hot Fixes released last week: 8.12.1 HF5: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/94625 8.12.0 HF5: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/94625 8.10.2 HF9: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/94624 8.6.4 HF11: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/94623 I'm running Aria Operations 8.12.1 HF3, so will apply 8.12.1 HF5. I'll apply to one environment via the admin UI and another environment via Aria Lifecycle Manager. First, let's do the admin UI, log in and

I'd like to capture ESXi Host properties via the Aria Operations REST API, here's how you do it. First, let's confirm Aria Operation has what we want: ESXi Host Serial Numbers. As you can see here, Aria Operations does get what we want, the Enclosure Serial Number. Let's now pull it via the REST API. Go to your Aria Operations Suite-API, mine looks like this: https://vr83-bpeterson.tvs.vmware.com/suite-api Once authenticated, run a GET /api/resources against ResourceKind H

Back in the day, if you wanted to monitor your VMware Software Defined Datacenter with VMware Aria Operations, you'd deploy the SSDC Health Management Pack. With 17 Dashboards, 55 Views, 69 Alerts, and more, it was an effective way to monitor your SDDCs (vCenters, vSAN, and NSX-T). This management pack is still available, but will ultimately be deprecated. In the most recent release of Aria Operations 8.12, we've introduced the VMware Infrastructure Health Management Pack,

Rightsizing VMs is a core capability of VMware Aria Operations and has been detailed nicely here by VMware Senior Product Line Manager Brandon Gordon. The Aria Operations rightsizing engine tells us how many vCPU and how much Memory to add or remove to VMs based on past performance and consumption. This can be explored from Optimize - Rightsize. We show Allocated vCPU and Memory and Recommended vCPU and Memory Reductions/Increases, but not the Recommended vCPU or Memory. I

It's been a while since I did one of these, figured I'd share it. In an effort to explore some new management packs included in Aria Operations 8.12, I'm upgrading one of my standalone labs. Meaning, I won't be using Aria Lifecycle to upgrade, let's go! First, let's grab the upgrade PAK and the pre-assessment tool from Customer Connect. I've downloaded the Pre-Upgrade Assessment for Upgrading 8.10.x. Once downloaded, let's run the Assessment, which you do by applying that

You're running Aria Operations and would like visibility into Site Recovery Manager (SRM), we have a management pack for you! The latest available is the VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.7, release notes can be found here. Downloads can be found here. Once installed, the management pack will look like this. Top right click the three dots and View Content, it'll show you what's in the management pack. Six Dashboards, 11 Views, 48 Aler

VMware Aria Operations 8.12.1 HF3 is available, you can find it here! This is the third Hot Fix for 8.12.x releases, the others are listed here: Aria Operations 8.12 HF1 Aria Operations 8.12.1 HF2, this requires an upgrade to 8.12.1 before applying, details can be found here. I'm using Aria Suite Lifecycle to manage my Aria environment, I've logged in, gone to Lifecycle Operations, Settings, Binary Mapping, Patch Binaries. Click CHECK PATCHES ONLINE. You can view progress vi

In our last post we discussed the VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for NSX Advanced Load Balancer (formerly AVI), today we'll explore Management Pack for NSX-T. For a quick review of VMware NSX, check this video. The latest version of the NSX-T management pack is 8.12.1 and contains three dashboards, four views, 290+ alerts, and more. Once installed, configure an adapter instance by pointing it at your NSX Manager. A few things to note here: If you have multiple NSX Ma

Back in June 2019 VMware announced it's intent to acquire AVI Networks, a month later and the acquisition was complete. Since then, the AVI Networks Application Delivery Controller (ADC) has been rebranded to be the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer. As is the case with other VMware Software Defined Data Center components, we built an Aria Operations Management Pack for it, which was announced in August 2022. Let's have a look. If you're running Aria Operations you'll have

VMware Aria Operations 8.12 HF2 just dropped, here's how to apply it to your Aria Operations deployment via Aria Suite Lifecycle. Log into Aria Suite Lifecycle, go to Lifecycle Operations - Settings - Binary Mapping - CHECK PATCHES ONLINE. You'll notice your request is being processed. If you click the Request link you can monitor the progress. Back in Settings - Patch Binaries, you'll notice PATCH1 for VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12, let's download it. Click the download

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 Colle

VMware vSAN monitoring has been available in Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) for quite some time. Originally, as a part of the Management Pack for Storage Devices, then its own implementation called the vSAN Management Pack, it's now included in the platform itself (ever since vROps 6.6). Once you've deployed Aria Operations, you'll notice the following. The vSAN Management Pack contains all of the content: dashboards, views, reports, and more. While the vCent

The Aria Operations SaaS July 2023 release was made IA this past week, a couple things stand out to me: Search enhancements from the Troubleshooting Workbench and Notification Heartbeats. Let's have a look! First, you'll notice that the Troubleshooting Workbench now offers Search Help, as well as suggestions and auto-completion, similar to what was added to the general Search functionality in the previous release. The Object search is similar to before, but the Metric search

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 you'