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

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

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

Last week VMware dropped the 8.14 versions of the products in the Aria Suite: Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Automation,...

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. Giv

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 Ari

This is a follow-up to our previous blog on VMware vRealize Operations Actions. For the purposes of this blog, I am running everything...

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....

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:...

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...

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.

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...

You're running Aria Operations and would like visibility into Site Recovery Manager (SRM), we have a management pack for you! The latest...

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...

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