VMware Aria Operations | (formerly vRealize Operations)

With a single operations platform that enables continuous performance, capacity and cost optimization, intelligent remediation, and integrated compliance via AI/ML and predictive analytics, enable self-driving IT Operations Management across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

VMware Aria has been designed to address the emerging cross-cloud and cross-discipline management challenges customers are increasingly encountering as they continue to adopt native public clouds and cloud-native applications. A good example is cloud migration. For those customers with multiple cloud environments seeking to modernize or rationalize their existing portfolios, they now have various target cloud options to choose from when migrating an application or workload. Understanding the characteristics of the target cloud from a cost, performance, and security perspective and comparing it with other cloud options is dependent on having a map of the relationships of all the objects and workloads across those cloud environments. This is precisely what VMware Aria’s new datastore – VMware Graph – is designed to do. VMware Aria is less about managing the challenges of the past but about the managing the ever-growing complexity of the multi-cloud and cloud-native application world.

With the VMware Aria launch, we are unifying VMware Cloud Management in four key respects:

• Offering:  VMware Aria –A multi-cloud management portfolio for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and cloud native applications across any cloud
• Platform: VMware Aria Hub powered by VMware Aria Graph – Centralized views and controls powered by a graph-based data store that captures the resources and relationships of a multi-cloud environment
• Solutions:  New End-to-End Services – Three new end-to-end solutions cutting across management disciplines to deliver cloud governance, cloud migration and business insights
• Portfolio:  VMware Aria – Single family name to unify the VMware portfolio: vRealize, CloudHealth by VMware Suite, and Tanzu Observability

Public Cloud

The Azure Network and Storage dashboards have also been refreshed along with the Azure Kubernetes Service Overview.  Each comes with the new filters, as with AWS, and contains VNets configured in subscriptions, the ability to drill down into individual VNets, storage account inventory, top consumers, and ability to drill down into individual storage accounts to see performance, capacity, availability and transactions as well as drilling down into blob, file, table, or queue storage.  The Azure Kubernetes Services Overview now contains Cluster Inventory for a broader view of your Kubernetes deployments.

Management Packs

In an effort to keep VMware Aria Operations running as efficiently as possible with the best possible performance, several upgrades have made some management pack versions incompatible with the October release of VMware Aria Operations.  See the below chart for which management packs are affected.  The “Affected Version” will be that version or lower and the “Compatible Version” will be the version the management pack will need to be on in order to function with the newest release.  These compatible versions are on the in-product marketplace already so upgrading these is simple and only require going to the Repository in VMware Aria Operations and clicking “Upgrade” on the appropriate pack.  The Cloud team will be performing these upgrades automatically shortly after the October release if not done manually beforehand.

To Read : https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2022/11/whats-new-in-vmware-aria-operations-october-2022.html

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