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What's New in VMware Aria Operations 8.12
*Formerly vRealize Operations I am very excited to announce many updates for VMware Aria Operations. We’ll be walking through updates that range from a brand new launchpad, and improved search experience to VCF operations and new multi-cloud views, as well as much, much more. You’ll want to take special note of the features that were previously only released on VMware Aria Operations SaaS that are now available for on-prem deployments.
What's New in VMware Aria Operations - April 2023
*Formerly vRealize Operations I am very excited to announce quite a few updates for VMware Aria Operations. We’ll be talking about updates that range from a brand new launchpad, improved search experience, VCF operations, new integrations, and much, much more. In fact, there are so many new announcements that we will be following up with many deep-dive blogs for many of these topics to give you the full technical details.
High Availability for Application Monitoring in VMware Aria Operations
This blog was authored by Tim George. The January release of VMware Aria Operations gave us an exciting new feature. We now have HA for application monitoring! If you are familiar with application monitoring using Telegraf in VMware Aria Operations, you already know that it is highly dependent on Cloud Proxies.
What's New in VMware Aria Operations* - January 2023
*Formerly vRealize Operations Happy New Year! With this new year comes a new release of VMware Aria Operations (SaaS). We have many new and exciting features including new high availablility for application monitoring using Telegraf, new public cloud actions for Automation Central, enhancements for Oracle Cloud VMware Solution and more.
What's new in VMware Aria Operations - October 2022
The latest release for VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations Cloud) is now available! There have been quite a few leaps forward in many areas of VMware Aria Operations including sustainability, certificate monitoring, NSX-T support, VMware Cloud on AWS outposts, public clouds, overall UI experience, policy management, and VMware chargeback just to name a few. We will cover each of these topics (and a few more) in this post.
What's New in Aria Operations 8.10
*Formerly vRealize Operations This blog was authored by Tim George. I am excited to announce that Aria Operations 8.10 is available today. This release is a giant update loaded with features that will make using Aria Operations even easier. We have created new application discovery methods, strengthened the public cloud monitoring experience, and made significant improvements to Cloud Proxies just to name a few.
Management Pack Builder: Build your integration into VMware Aria Operations* with ZERO code
*Formerly vRealize Operations This post was authored by Tim George The wait for the new Management Pack Builder is over! Management Pack Builder has gone live so now you can create your very own management packs for VMware Aria Operations (formerly vRealize Operations) MP Builder: Build your integration into VMware Aria Operations with ZERO code using no code.
Introducing VMware Aria
Share on: 0 A unified management solution for cloud native applications and multi-cloud. I’m very excited by the prospect of seeing our customers in person once again at VMware Explore this week, especially as we’ll be announcing the next chapter in VMware’s cloud management story. We’re unveiling VMware Aria, a multi-cloud management portfolio that provides a set of end-to-end solutions for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and applications.
Introducing TechZone for Apps and Cloud Management
VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all your applications, enabling digital innovation together with enterprise control. As an industry trusted name, VMware helps you to accelerate innovation and offers businesses the flexibility and choices to allow you to build the future. VMware technology delivers modern apps at the speed your business demands and helps you to operate across the data center for any cloud.
Tech Preview: VMware Aria Business Insights
VMware Aria Hub – previously Project Ensemble – is VMware’s app-centric, common data platform for cloud management uniting different personas in a single collaborative user interface. Today, we are excited to announce the tech preview of a new capability within VMware Aria Hub called VMware Aria Business Insights.
Announcing VMware Aria Operations for Networks 6.8
There was exciting news at VMware Explore 2022 today. VMware Aria has been announced with new unified capabilities for cloud governance, cloud migrations, and cloud insights that provide a unified view across clouds. Read the VMware Aria announcement blog here. There was also a Tech Preview of the Aria Migration Service announcement. As part of the VMware Aria announcement, vRealize Network Insight has a new name of VMware Aria Operations for Networks.
Tech Preview: Aria Migration Service
As businesses move from a single dedicated infrastructure to flexible multi-cloud models, IT teams are challenged with assessing, analyzing, planning, modernizing, executing, and operationalizing the migration of workloads across multiple clouds. Each of these areas require the combination of niche and complex tooling with great skill. A slip in any of these stages leads to lost time, money, and reputation, thus requiring businesses to keep them watertight.
What’s New in vRealize Log Insight Cloud - August 2022
Greetings everyone! We’re kicking off VMware Explore 2022 with some powerful new updates to vRealize Log Insight Cloud. As you may or may not have heard already, the vRealize Suite is being rebranded to ‘VMware Aria’, and vRealize Log Insight Cloud is being rebranded to ‘Aria Operations for Logs’. For simplicity’s sake, we’re going to still use the name ‘Log Insight Cloud’ for this blog, but further videos and publications will refer to the product by its new Aria name.
What's New in Cloud Management at VMware Explore
The growing complexity of multi-cloud environments has given rise to the need for an effective cloud operating model that can cut through the “noise”. Today, VMware Cloud Management is replacing that noise with cloud operations that is equal parts melody and harmony.
Announcing Aria Operations 8.10
(Formerly vRealize Operations) You may have heard that a few things around VMware have been changing lately (for example – the product name for this blog). And while change can be hard in some instances, we need to remember that innovation is impossible without change. I look forward to sharing our innovative new features with you as we introduce Aria Operations 8.10.
How to Exclude your VMs from consuming licenses with vRealize Operations
If you have recently found that your vRealize Operations license usage has shot up or if you feel you need a little bit more control over how your vRealize Operations licenses are being consumed in your vRealize Operations instance and would like to exclude your VMs or some of them from license counts then this information is very useful for your needs.
An In-Depth Look at Synthetic Monitoring
This blog was authored by Tim George. The next generation of vRealize Operations Cloud is LIVE! This release is packed full of features that will make using vRealize Operations Cloud a breeze. We have added synthetic monitoring capabilities, improvements to the Automation Central feature, new application discovery methods, public cloud monitoring experience is better than ever, and made significant improvements to Cloud Proxies to name a few.
Feature Walkthrough: vRealize Operations Cloud - July 2022 Update
This blog was authored by Tim George. The next iteration of vRealize Operations Cloud is LIVE! This release is a massive update packed full of features that will make using vRealize Operations Cloud even easier. We have added synthetic monitoring capabilities, enhanced the Automation Central feature, created new application discovery methods, strengthened the public cloud monitoring experience, and made significant improvements to Cloud Proxies just to name a few.
Forwarding vSphere Audit and Authentication Events from vRealize Log Insight to a SIEM
vRealize Log Insight makes it very easy to collect events from vCenter and ESX, and we even have a robust set of content packs for vSphere, but some customers require their auditing events to go to a 3rd party SIEM due to information security requirements. In that use case, we can forward our audit logs via vRLI event forwarding to a SIEM. Let’s look at how to do that here.
What’s New in vRealize Operations Cloud - July 2022
This blog was co-authored by Tim George. I am excited to announce the July 2022 update for vRealize Operations Cloud which includes several great enhancements. As a reminder, vRealize Operations Cloud receives all new features and enhancements throughout the year with vRealize Operations on-premises receiving the updates later in the year.
What’s New in vRealize Operations Cloud - May 2022 Update
vRealize Operations Cloud just launched its May 2022 update which introduces several great enhancements. Going forward, vRealize Operations Cloud will be the platform of choice for all new features and enhancements with updates to on-premises vRealize Operations later in the year.
Beta Program: vRealize Operations Management Pack Builder
Last fall we introduced the entitlement of all VMware vRealize True Visibility Suite storage and compute management packs with all vRealize Operations editions and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. The vRealize community has been excited to take vRealize Operations into physical infrastructure.
Custom Resource Types with Dynamic Types : An AWS EKS Clusters Use Case
In this blog we will learn about using vRO dynamic types for supporting vRA custom resource types (or CRTs, for short) and will do by implementing a real use case from scratch, AKE EKS Clusters. This post is very detailed and includes all the code, scripts, flows, etc used to complete it, it is also divided in several steps, separating specific concepts, that way you can read it at your own pace and come back to specific sections at any time.
What's New in vRealize Operations Cloud
This blog was co-authored with Brandon Gordon. Following many exciting announcements this fall at VMworld, we are excited to announce a new vRealize Operations Cloud release! vRealize Operations Cloud delivers a unified management platform to optimize, plan, and scale multi-cloud deployments from applications to infrastructure, powered by AI/ML, as a service. New features in this release include region selection, admin in-app purchase capabilities as well as updated retention options.
Test Drive new features in vRealize Operations Cloud!
vRealize Operations Cloud is now a fully integrated experience within VMware Cloud on AWS and with its one-click activation, you’ll be able to enjoy the SaaS service without needing to install a cloud proxy or configure a cloud account! The built-in, in-product guided tours and customer journey maps help with quick onboarding and initial configurations that cover many common tasks: Connecting to vSphere Connecting to VMware Cloud Setup Alert Notifications Create Dashboards Generate Reports...
A Big Update for vRealize Operations and vRealize True Visibility
This fall at VMworld you heard that there were some pretty significant changes for vRealize True Visibility that were “coming soon”.
vROPS 8.6 Administration – Where is it now? - VMware Cloud Management
During VMworld 2021 we announced vRealize Operations 8.6 which now provides allot of new features and capabilities. You can see an Whats New overview here as well as a feature walk through here. I this blog we will be focusing specifically on the Administration menu and how it maps to the new 8.6 release. I covered the UI Navigation on my blog here. As you might be aware the Administration has now been redesigned to make it easier to navigate and find items. Lets jump in to it.
Sustainability Dashboards in vRealize Operations 8.6
Sustainability is one of the key priorities for every enterprise organization across the globe right now. Virtualization has played a crucial role in data center consolidation, thereby helping reduce the overall hardware footprint. It enabled savings in power consumption and floor space in data centers. This improved the overall efficiency and curbed carbon emissions resulting from IT infrastructure growth.
Constructing the perfect VMworld 2021 agenda
Getting ready for VMworld 2021? Let’s talk about how to construct the perfect agenda (at least in my opinion). The vRealize Operations team has been anticipating and preparing for VMworld 2021 for months and we can’t believe we’re almost there! This year will be packed with opportunities to engage with your favorite vRealize experts and I want to make sure you take advantage of as many opportunities as you can. No matter where you are on your operations journey, we have something for you.
VMware Cloud Management Conference Guide to VMworld 2021
With this VMware Cloud Management conference guide to VMworld 2021, you have a map to the newest innovations, latest announcements, inspirational industry experts – and to fun! Just imagine you have the flexibility to attend a premiere industry conference, to grow your knowledge and expertise, and to interact and exchange ideas with others worldwide on October 5-7, 2021. The VMware Cloud Management team can help you make this a reality.
ICYMI: vExperts Share Their Tips on Low-Cost Cloud Migrations with VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Cloud Management in #vRealizeChat
Authored by Haley Kilroy Every few weeks, VMware Cloud Management vExperts meet on Twitter to talk hot topics like the cloud operating model and networking for modern applications. On August 12, 2021 the team came together once again to discuss low-cost cloud migrations with VMware Cloud on AWS with vRealize Cloud Management. It was a fun and informative conversation covering a variety of questions from migration considerations, benefits and more.
vRealize Operations Super Metrics Made Easy – Part 7 Exporting and Importing Super Metrics + Tips and Tricks - VMware Cloud Management
In my previous blog post, I introduced parts 4 – 6 of the video series “vRealize Operations Super Metrics Made Easy” focusing on creating Super Metrics using other available functions and efficient usage of the “this” option and the “if-then-else” statement. In part 7 of the series, which is available here: Super Metrics Made Easy – Part 7 – Export-Import and Tips You will learn how to export and import vRealize Operations Super Metrics and other content.
ALERT! - Updated Management Pack for ServiceNow
vRealize True Visibility Suite Management Pack for ServiceNow This blog was written by VMware’s own Brock Peterson and is also posted on his personal blog here. Brock is a Cloud Solutions Architect in the Cloud Management Business Unit and an avid Packer fan (but we try not to hold that against him). VMware introduced the ServiceNow Notification Plugin in vRealize Operations 7.5, giving customers the ability to send vRealize Operations Alerts to ServiceNow.
vRealize Operations Super Metrics Made Easy - Part 1-3 Introduction to Super Metrics
Using its native solutions and additional Management Packs vRealize Operations collects data about your entire environment including various metrics and properties to get you started with managing your Multi-Cloud infrastructure. The predefined metrics and properties address nearly all aspects of SDDC management. But sometimes you will need to transform available metrics, calculate new metrics using existing ones or attach metrics coming from several objects to another related object.
vRealize Operations Super Metrics Made Easy – Part 4-6 Creating Super Metrics - VMware Cloud Management
In my previous blog post, I introduced the new video series “vRealize Operations Super Metrics Made Easy“. In parts 4 – 6 of the series, which are available here: Super Metrics Made Easy – Part 4 – More Super Metrics Super Metrics Made Easy – Part 5 – “This” Option in Super Metrics Super Metrics Made Easy – Part 6 – “If-Then-Else” Statement in Super Metrics You will learn how to create more vRealize Operations Super Metrics, leveraging other provided functions and statements.
What’s NEW in the vRealize v8.5 releases!
In our previous vRealize v8.4 launch, we released support for Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and VMware Cloud on AWS with new innovations across the VMware vRealize Cloud Management portfolio.
vRealize True Visibility Management Pack for Dell EMC VMAX and PowerMax now GA!
This blog was written by VMware’s own Brock Peterson and is also posted on his personal blog here. Brock is a Cloud Solutions Architect in the Cloud Management Business Unit and an avid Packer fan. For years, the vRealize True Visibility Suite management pack for Dell EMC VMAX supported VMAX3 and VMAX AFA arrays. It now supports PowerMax as well! Collecting data from Unisphere for both platforms, it looks like this. The adapter connects directly to the Unisphere REST API (8.1+) over HTTPS.
Google Cloud VMware Engine and vRealize Cloud Management
Datacenters are growing in scale and complexity, extending from private clouds to public clouds and even multiple public clouds. Companies now need an intelligent, enterprise-grade solution that automates and simplifies operations management. VMware vRealize Cloud Management is a comprehensive multi-cloud management solution. It enables you to deploy and operate your applications, infrastructure, and platform services, from the datacenter to the cloud to the edge, so you can scale and grow.
Monitoring a Cassandra Database Cluster with vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight/Fluentd – Part 2 - VMware Cloud Management
In part one of our blog, we configured the Fluentd agent to pulls Cassandra database logs into vRealize Log Insight. If we stopped there, we would only get a partial picture of Cassandra environment if anything were to go wrong.
Views: Business Hours and not only in vRealize Operations 8.4
I am delighted to share that the exciting features promised in “vRealize Operations 8.2 Views: filter enhancements” are on the way. And vROps 8.4 includes support for Business hours configuration in List Views. 1. Business Hours support Often for reporting purposes customers would like to see data during specified hours of the day, such as for office working hours, say 8 AM to 5 PM only or for weekdays only. Now it can be easily configured in several steps.
Monitoring a Cassandra Database Cluster with vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight/Fluentd - Part 1
In this two part blog series, vRealize Log Insight and vRealize Operations come together to provide a one stop shop for event monitoring, alerting, and metrics. With the combination of these two powerful pieces of software, we can monitor all the way from the application itself, down to the physical hardware without having to rely on juggling multiple monitoring solutions to paint a complete picture.
The Universal Approach to Cloud Adoption
Cloud adoption has quickly gone from a luxury reserved for forward-looking organizations to a necessity for everyone hoping to stay competitive in the modern application economy.
Announcing Code Stream CLI
I’ve been working on a little project for a few weeks now, and it’s finally time to share it with the world! Say hello to the Code Stream CLI! The CLI is built in Golang (my very first project written in Go!) and uses the Cobra and Viper libraries to create a kubectl-like command line interface, and the Go-Resty REST client library to interact with the Code Stream API. The Code Stream CLI is being released as a Fling, and as an open source project.
Announcing vRealize Log Insight v8.4 and Log Insight Cloud
IT teams comb through their logs daily to search for errors, anomalies, and suspicious activity to audit and visualize what’s who and what exactly is roaming across their infrastructure and applications. But with the growing amount of data being generated in today’s world, it is important to have a good grasp on your log aggregation, long-term storage, and how to be cost-efficient in log retention.
vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite Add Extensibility
Over the past year we have seen a significant number of customers adding management packs to support visibility into physical compute, storage, network and hyperconverged infrastructure alongside their virtual environment. With the acquisition of the vRealize True Visibility Suite team and products in 2020, it has become even easier to cost-effectively manage both traditional and modern infrastructures while meeting rapidly changing business needs.
Announcing vRealize Operations v8.4 and vRealize Operations Cloud
With no signs of slowing down the innovation in sight, VMware will be coming back again with yet another brand-new release of vRealize Operations 8.4 and vRealize Operations Cloud! It was just four months after the release of vRealize Operations 8.2 and vRealize Operations Cloud that we released the availability of vRealize Operations 8.3 a month ago in February. It’s a fast ride in this self-driving datacenter and a path for every customer to take.
vRealize This Live! Cloud Migration Planning with vRealize Operations
In case you didn’t hear, the VMware Cloud Management Business Unit has launched a brand new Live Stream called vRealize This Live! Join us every other Wednesday on the VMware Cloud Management Youtube channel for great demos and live conversations with you. This week, John Dias walked us through cloud migration planning using vRealize Operations. Some key takeaways from this episode are… Rightsize those VM’s before you migrate. Understand what outcomes your business expects from the migration.
Navigating your way around VMware vRealize AI Cloud
Great news: we are making it easier for vRealize Cloud Universal (vRCU) customers to adopt vRealize AI Cloud. Back in VMworld 2020, we introduced the availability of VMware vRealize AI Cloud, a self-tuning service that uses reinforcement learning to continuously adapt to the changing needs of your VMware SDDC and dynamic workloads for performance optimization.
Tenant Migration with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.3
vRealize Lifecycle Manager 8.3 allows customers on existing vRealize Automation 7.5 and 7.6 deployments to migrate tenants and tenant data to vRealize Automation 8.2 Patch 1 or higher. This compliments the migration process available with vRealize Automation Migration Assistant. Used together, customers can now easily migrate their tenants (i.e. directories, custom groups, etc) as well as the content (Business Groups, Blueprints, Deployments, etc) in a few steps.
Making it Rain in the Cloud with vRealize Cloud Universal
“New year, new cloud strategy!” This is the mantra for many organizations who are approaching 2021 with optimism and a clear eye view about how shifting to the cloud will help their business become future-ready. As the great Boromir once said, “One does not simply move to the cloud”. Or something like that at least. The road to cloud riches starts with an understanding of the true cost of migrating to the cloud is.
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