across my estate, so started exploring Dashboards and Queries provided by the VMware- vSphere Content Pack The VMware vSphere Content Pack has dozens of Dashboards, Queries, Alerts, and more.

So many uses cases for the vROps API, we've discussed using it to delete Adapter Instances and Manage

compliance, supported technologies, compliance scores, and a video showing you how to use the Compliance Packs You can always click ALL BENCHMARKS to go back to main Compliance page. If you go back to the Home - Compliance page you'll see a tile for each Benchmark.

Operations (vROps) platform from VMware are: - Optimize Performance - Optimize Capacity - Troubleshoot - Manage Now that we've explored the Workload Optimization dashboard in its entirety, let's get back to the Optimization A common question is: how does vROps Workload Optimization compare to vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler

Next up will be applying the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.18.0 Patch 7.

Another great resource, is the What's New video on the VMware Aria Cloud Management YouTube channel,

VMware Senior Staff Technical Marketing Manager Brandon Gordon explained it best: VM Uptime would consider

Aria Automation for Secure Clouds (formerly known as CloudHealth Secure State), SaaS designed to help manage This is intended for you to organize your controls into common themes.

If you've installed the VMware - vSphere Content Pack you'll notice several Dashboards, including one

If you're using Aria Operations for Logs and have installed the vSphere Content Pack, you'll notice dozens

Go to Manage Endpoints - New and create yours, mine looks like this.

Once you've configured your vCenter connections, we'll use the vSphere Content Pack to explore the vCenter The vSphere Content Pack comes out-of-the-box and provides Dashboards, Queries, Alerts, Agents Groups

Once offline, go to Software Update - INSTALL A SOFTWARE UPDATE, and point it at your new update package Back on the About page you'll have a new build number, indicating we're at 8.17.1 HF2.

First, log into the Broadcom Support Portal and download the CP only package (OVA), I'm grabbing the Back in Operations you'll see it coming online and notice that Log Forwarding is activated.

as well: support for Microsoft Azure Government subscriptions, Cloud Proxy CLI support, Compliance Pack

There are two more groups of Dashboards: Custom Dashboards and Content Pack Dashboards. Content Pack Dashboards shows all dashboards that have been installed as part of a vRLI Content Pack.

Click SAVE and back on the Cluster Summary page it'll show like this. Back in vCenter I've created several more Cluster Custom Attributes which enrich the already existing Back in VCF Operations, they look like this. You'll notice them on the Cluster Summary Page too.

Log back in as admin (Local Users) and go to Administration - Control Panel - Access Control. Back on the main Access Control page using the Roles tab we can see details. Now when I log back in I have the Diagnostics blade on the left (and Subscriptions)!

Checking back after several data collections, we now have this. Powering the VM back on takes our new Super Metric back to 0.

You can monitor progress back in Software Update. Once complete, it will look like this. The Operations Cluster will come back online on its own, as shown in System Status. You can also confirm the upgrade back on the About page.