tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53894614543481617922024-03-14T02:43:06.115-03:00Just Another IT BlogIt's time to share some of my experiences, crazy ideas, tips and tricks !!!Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comBlogger351125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-91143271382581897612024-03-05T14:38:00.003-03:002024-03-05T14:38:21.885-03:00Deprecation of NPC Plugin-Based Elements in VMware Aria Automation 8.16.1<div style="text-align: left;">In the recent release of <a href="VMware Aria Automation" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> 8.16.1, a subtle yet impactful change has taken place, the Plugin-based elements for Native Public Cloud (NPC) have been deprecated.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/05/plugin-based-framework-for-resources-in-vmware-aria-automation.html" target="_blank">Introduced back in May 2023</a>, the Plugin-based framework has undergone evolution, supporting major players like AWS, Google, and Azure. Despite its progress, it's essential to note that this framework remained in beta, susceptible to changes, <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/8.16/Using-Automation-Assembler/GUID-7CB792B4-43AA-4DA0-AF64-E9EEB7EAC9CC.html" target="_blank">as explicitly documented</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9lMxojYao46X2HTqnQyJBjZb01gS3TIM79T-4oDHLrqZnrgiRQGvuskzWhSwf-M-QJwu6m_A_p-IW7nd0nXpciRnfsYBLju3lHK_-5ynEUtW3WrWkpGv64ofi6Qr0QM5pMJnXdozqjCCGycACLxEvQBVWNwsb3oDO8gpO3Pgaos_mG8bAxYq224pvdZf/s1121/Plugin_beta.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="1121" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9lMxojYao46X2HTqnQyJBjZb01gS3TIM79T-4oDHLrqZnrgiRQGvuskzWhSwf-M-QJwu6m_A_p-IW7nd0nXpciRnfsYBLju3lHK_-5ynEUtW3WrWkpGv64ofi6Qr0QM5pMJnXdozqjCCGycACLxEvQBVWNwsb3oDO8gpO3Pgaos_mG8bAxYq224pvdZf/w640-h278/Plugin_beta.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Even when creating a new blueprint cloud template, observant users might have noticed a warning message hinted at the provisional nature of this feature.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQyTQIw7VCbsRkbt-PCQsfmhFcG-vUezA3hF_luuzQTFS1fYJrz2mp7JMTB113w93X1TEJuP_SKDoJVEiBZoo85NeBSYzDyCGnNCk_TghayVjHFr3RT1Tt30u4dBQgHZgpa1Y27coKwx3Wi5IecqyY9x_H36KHg_z8jdhP2r2tuMciWd9M1B_SBXXJtleC/s941/template_warning.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="656" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQyTQIw7VCbsRkbt-PCQsfmhFcG-vUezA3hF_luuzQTFS1fYJrz2mp7JMTB113w93X1TEJuP_SKDoJVEiBZoo85NeBSYzDyCGnNCk_TghayVjHFr3RT1Tt30u4dBQgHZgpa1Y27coKwx3Wi5IecqyY9x_H36KHg_z8jdhP2r2tuMciWd9M1B_SBXXJtleC/w446-h640/template_warning.png" width="446" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Up to Aria Automation 8.16 there was several NPC plugin based elements;</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwFeTTxfBGNcpzDv3aImvs2m9YxO7HZCP0rXyp1d3eij2-1jUQI9MVKLYj2Bdm6Kvpfs4ZfgRfD03vgLmFrL-SVZFzJIamKLDO08E22mvsY47HsqMgKap1sYK77VV9XipQ8NsDY1neISlfAa5sdRCj80iXmLguXi4UaUtVwX-lzg93BJoy4BCKKySeT7z2/s1147/idem_8.16.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1147" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwFeTTxfBGNcpzDv3aImvs2m9YxO7HZCP0rXyp1d3eij2-1jUQI9MVKLYj2Bdm6Kvpfs4ZfgRfD03vgLmFrL-SVZFzJIamKLDO08E22mvsY47HsqMgKap1sYK77VV9XipQ8NsDY1neISlfAa5sdRCj80iXmLguXi4UaUtVwX-lzg93BJoy4BCKKySeT7z2/w640-h428/idem_8.16.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">As of Automation 8.16.1, the curtain has fallen on NPC plugin-based elements. They are no longer available in the platform, and any deployments relying on them will face inevitable failures.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjILVyYxx3ocAYVpwV4tKIKmABYXuKkvoRLp_4gOeIfpC2r4HMncQ3opV_r0pQeHy6FUReEkRsyiZOD4mekYfiqVVk0dkIVkpCU76Cm_puNntnkrnYIbq1fFhUl6cgVF5K7z7wK13V1OQ264Mfe8_HIatFsFHHUz3jfspgASGSp0GPzlVmd7-KNjrrehwrV/s1131/idem_8.16.1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1131" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjILVyYxx3ocAYVpwV4tKIKmABYXuKkvoRLp_4gOeIfpC2r4HMncQ3opV_r0pQeHy6FUReEkRsyiZOD4mekYfiqVVk0dkIVkpCU76Cm_puNntnkrnYIbq1fFhUl6cgVF5K7z7wK13V1OQ264Mfe8_HIatFsFHHUz3jfspgASGSp0GPzlVmd7-KNjrrehwrV/w640-h518/idem_8.16.1.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">Before initiating the migration, carefully consider alternative elements and frameworks that align with your specific needs. Explore options that provide the required functionalities without relying on the now deprecated NPC plugin-based elements.</div>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-35218523279317646262024-02-27T12:15:00.001-03:002024-02-27T12:15:05.682-03:00New Pricing Policy<div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Hot off the press, <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/8.16/rn/vmware-aria-operations-816-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations 8.16</a> is here, bringing enhancements and exciting features. Amidst these upgrades, I want to highlight one particular change, <b>Pricing Policy</b>! </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">Aria Operations</a> goes beyond mere cost tracking; it enables you to set prices for each resource in your environment, irrespective of infrastructure costs. </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This approach brings visibility to end-users and departments, facilitating the creation of comprehensive chargeback reports. </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">If the distinction between cost and price eludes you, <a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/11/parking-lot-tale.html" target="_blank">check out this post</a></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> for a clearer understanding.</span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">While this change might be unnoticed for green field implementations, for existing customer upgrading Aria Operations there will a migration step need to enable the pricing policy.</span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Navigating to <b>Configure / Cost Drivers / Pricing</b>, a new warning message signals this shift. </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">While you can delay this change, be mindful that it might be inevitable soon. Ready to take the plunge? Initiate the migration by selecting the Actions menu and choosing "Migrate Now."</span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuPgwT8agGWuzcIhuw_m3UW8lyXv_EfK1V_ZoklGWpBEgNOF465u4FRBrC-ZlN51Q1-7Y_-VxR5aIsAEy-Ku0m9HjMbnAqk2ZNt8JJy82porVN_tb1I_yIiErX8AKE12_lHya1NmyFDwMC_02ByExOXAYIT8Kaz2f9i8Y0NvIOMhUkzuhDiA9pkf_A8Co/s1898/price_migrate.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="1898" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBuPgwT8agGWuzcIhuw_m3UW8lyXv_EfK1V_ZoklGWpBEgNOF465u4FRBrC-ZlN51Q1-7Y_-VxR5aIsAEy-Ku0m9HjMbnAqk2ZNt8JJy82porVN_tb1I_yIiErX8AKE12_lHya1NmyFDwMC_02ByExOXAYIT8Kaz2f9i8Y0NvIOMhUkzuhDiA9pkf_A8Co/w640-h232/price_migrate.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">In the migration process, your understanding and consent are mandatory. Hit "<b>Migrate</b>," understanding that this operation is irreversible. </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8h2HpYQJZlS0pzWmjAsaqSyFoHv6cyT12qE1PSKMeW3R22ocM7juOnGziZFSwW0X1UqynhonrsTXYeOYpZcUvCAg1aKvqdFnJqMgl1H1Y_xQWqoNuL-8WElAHOASqMDySEz-9HkdPNRlueCMo_UCN0l-9NrMoZ2-LN-wXAjSxMm6YVZxIUBR_8EwzLYN/s708/start_Migration.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="708" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib8h2HpYQJZlS0pzWmjAsaqSyFoHv6cyT12qE1PSKMeW3R22ocM7juOnGziZFSwW0X1UqynhonrsTXYeOYpZcUvCAg1aKvqdFnJqMgl1H1Y_xQWqoNuL-8WElAHOASqMDySEz-9HkdPNRlueCMo_UCN0l-9NrMoZ2-LN-wXAjSxMm6YVZxIUBR_8EwzLYN/w400-h240/start_Migration.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">In mere seconds, witness the completion of the migration, and voilà , you're now seamlessly operating with pricing policies.</span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7FYDcetoRlAHGmysE2LzOvwBN0KYDmKSUayopC6lrsR1-S3cJpQNZaLJVKQU1vSbnT8a97tw88fIcicjfB6sgJnu5TIc5-WfrYNP3QFSSGFvNEXYAI6MUmr9Who8Xqnr2EyiMmyq58W-9mjUzjtWdGWZXC-BNVva47_miLmIRjHTHO9meskxT3ei580E2/s893/migration_done.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="893" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7FYDcetoRlAHGmysE2LzOvwBN0KYDmKSUayopC6lrsR1-S3cJpQNZaLJVKQU1vSbnT8a97tw88fIcicjfB6sgJnu5TIc5-WfrYNP3QFSSGFvNEXYAI6MUmr9Who8Xqnr2EyiMmyq58W-9mjUzjtWdGWZXC-BNVva47_miLmIRjHTHO9meskxT3ei580E2/w640-h170/migration_done.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">For added assurance, check the migration logs under <b>Administration / Audit / VC Pricing Migration Audit.</b> Ensure all your pricing cards have transitioned successfully.</span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-zK9qNyMF1Z4m2hf0SwYybJsApO4KtbXYobGSxlgpqie5qXudw7YtWXuCRHbTbEk1XVNtBvbJIY9Np8BtkZ53R9_Cc_k3ONZflk1LLXSroLfWObe0Z6kthx7Ab9stwLh3pneMBSAhx8iLSNDyKi8azU4P4zMhu5ZUcdyMLpak_nDDLVT6xaQ-Bk2j360/s1901/Migration_logs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1901" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij-zK9qNyMF1Z4m2hf0SwYybJsApO4KtbXYobGSxlgpqie5qXudw7YtWXuCRHbTbEk1XVNtBvbJIY9Np8BtkZ53R9_Cc_k3ONZflk1LLXSroLfWObe0Z6kthx7Ab9stwLh3pneMBSAhx8iLSNDyKi8azU4P4zMhu5ZUcdyMLpak_nDDLVT6xaQ-Bk2j360/w640-h218/Migration_logs.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Post-migration, your policies reside under the default policy. However, they lack associated objects. Swiftly associate your objects within the policies, ensuring a continuous pricing calculation. </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijaZTGuQT-4o14FGbPqtNa_DMbihs1av5joOBFHrErLO2AQaaPptDOER493vIFHPjP-nDH0KcNbCQXHd4qfz18LAFBg4NG5YiTYNkTCdnQWXNodcgE0MjERzESuah_x9Jmk3BnM0APGpORqdwyNCMyI954lGzpe-7RkLecokewwED6HMomWT2Y76OWvrmU/s1362/pricing_policy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="1362" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijaZTGuQT-4o14FGbPqtNa_DMbihs1av5joOBFHrErLO2AQaaPptDOER493vIFHPjP-nDH0KcNbCQXHd4qfz18LAFBg4NG5YiTYNkTCdnQWXNodcgE0MjERzESuah_x9Jmk3BnM0APGpORqdwyNCMyI954lGzpe-7RkLecokewwED6HMomWT2Y76OWvrmU/w640-h340/pricing_policy.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Editing the policy you can update the <b>Name</b> and get rid of the random characters. <br /></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The heart of your pricing strategy lies in <b>VC Pricing</b>. Dive into the details, update as needed.</span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">To associate the objects click on "Groups and Objects," and select the objects to which policies will apply.</span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPT9ZlKLBYF_GqdLyNmzicgpNj0DEVmwrAFNAZOCdPwkmgo1Uw57V1RAEuXgtjELhneBjPFBv2WYP6dvCYCgf-unBE_EOQsnpymMlPimcjBbpLSXpPr4XkHAdoTDnqnc79GFJgfEyp6xWiJKfR2jpYPn-8R67roiAn3W8_5Qalgx3_bOQn4DXP8YlEYFuJ/s1274/price_policy.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1274" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPT9ZlKLBYF_GqdLyNmzicgpNj0DEVmwrAFNAZOCdPwkmgo1Uw57V1RAEuXgtjELhneBjPFBv2WYP6dvCYCgf-unBE_EOQsnpymMlPimcjBbpLSXpPr4XkHAdoTDnqnc79GFJgfEyp6xWiJKfR2jpYPn-8R67roiAn3W8_5Qalgx3_bOQn4DXP8YlEYFuJ/w640-h490/price_policy.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Under the "Objects" tab, select the object where the pricing policy will be applied. For instance, if you have distinct vSphere Clusters, like I do, craft a specific policy for each one of them.</span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8tchRQc6oFuvjWyORSVKMOUPgIoeBxzVkPNjdWmPXr5at3axvKvXGsY3xyh-fnjbPxwQI1O9l1vzunPxjzHIacutvxIDnq2lJQmWfU1EIxkQD9cgNx8chVHaqclMhueVjE_RjsipWqHKvIrwf4BdQPEwLcQ9b3bbSIN3psMT1rVu12_gRHHqrcguo4wN/s513/Policy%20Objejct.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="340" data-original-width="513" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv8tchRQc6oFuvjWyORSVKMOUPgIoeBxzVkPNjdWmPXr5at3axvKvXGsY3xyh-fnjbPxwQI1O9l1vzunPxjzHIacutvxIDnq2lJQmWfU1EIxkQD9cgNx8chVHaqclMhueVjE_RjsipWqHKvIrwf4BdQPEwLcQ9b3bbSIN3psMT1rVu12_gRHHqrcguo4wN/w400-h265/Policy%20Objejct.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">Just save the changes and <span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">you have sucessfully migrate to Pricing Policy !!!<br /></span></div><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-21912814306473979482024-02-23T14:18:00.002-03:002024-02-23T14:18:14.361-03:00Definitive Aria Automation Branding Guide<p>In the fiercely competitive realm of business, companies invest significantly in marketing endeavors to create your own signature. This commitment to distinctiveness extends to all facets of their digital presence, including service portals and web pages. </p><p><br /><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a>, recognizing the importance of this brand individuality, offering seamless customization options. <br />Let's delve into how you can fully tailor it to reflect your distinctive brand.<br /><br />Begin with the default page, a blank canvas waiting for your brand's essence. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYJ4emq7fpCI4e7RN82xzO0yDOAALojtUNZzZflrewF3PJxoLyhsCWKOwrSoDwmgaCV_4eKakYnKUNxSMa9apCp8d1agxA09JTjatYxX3giPImAzSF7FVfTlCW0F3M_HwfiK2knJalyWvln0teC4e89UYkrutySRiXyNbKISvhfVPpZkdw_m-iPvpaBsX/s1313/01.default.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="1313" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMYJ4emq7fpCI4e7RN82xzO0yDOAALojtUNZzZflrewF3PJxoLyhsCWKOwrSoDwmgaCV_4eKakYnKUNxSMa9apCp8d1agxA09JTjatYxX3giPImAzSF7FVfTlCW0F3M_HwfiK2knJalyWvln0teC4e89UYkrutySRiXyNbKISvhfVPpZkdw_m-iPvpaBsX/w640-h286/01.default.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">Navigate to the left menu and click on "<i>Branding</i>." </div><div style="text-align: left;">Here, every field is self-explanatory, allowing you to effortlessly infuse your personality, colors, and logos. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggA9hhja3yLN6y7UQthX1LGlEIn0Mrol379OZZNGnpKW0zasrSkow-huTEIVOMtPpZpzO6GJf_tB9sMpPA2ni0KguI3P9fQFWVJLKSo9W-9qsbMwokiaCBJwLUDYYA5hzA-MRNs9_T4eSbReBJi6zp5PpruleEHGqd9j28gxgoikLHaAxNQGkutAOFcxby/s911/02.branding.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="911" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggA9hhja3yLN6y7UQthX1LGlEIn0Mrol379OZZNGnpKW0zasrSkow-huTEIVOMtPpZpzO6GJf_tB9sMpPA2ni0KguI3P9fQFWVJLKSo9W-9qsbMwokiaCBJwLUDYYA5hzA-MRNs9_T4eSbReBJi6zp5PpruleEHGqd9j28gxgoikLHaAxNQGkutAOFcxby/w640-h382/02.branding.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p></p><p></p><p>From selecting your logo to defining the header background color, the options are comprehensive. With a simple click on "<i>Apply</i>," witness the instant metamorphosis of your portal into a branded masterpiece.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_qN5LxJieTMzvBl8B8NCtWYPT17TlONL3g1wL0EdBi4yC4btS1POqLXrQZtESXWLRUkp8LCioxP5k8OSJMLeo9WzlQEy6qKVno6Kjim5sI1qClzT7nctz1_o0o5NltYsXMBX_M2u9fJ4cEso36OhtBOJoneYqvHEdkMoeWHuDHSlEQGsOzYAbttetLqq/s1039/03.portal.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="1039" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_qN5LxJieTMzvBl8B8NCtWYPT17TlONL3g1wL0EdBi4yC4btS1POqLXrQZtESXWLRUkp8LCioxP5k8OSJMLeo9WzlQEy6qKVno6Kjim5sI1qClzT7nctz1_o0o5NltYsXMBX_M2u9fJ4cEso36OhtBOJoneYqvHEdkMoeWHuDHSlEQGsOzYAbttetLqq/w640-h346/03.portal.png" width="640" /></a></p><p> </p><p>The login page, the gateway to your portal, is governed by vIDM (VMware Identity Manager). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20pI027ThrW1N7r2Z3CtRN4SOBzHlKRvw4B8Htzpl3gGPLO4nHuTum_jaEUmQSkQCQlIrj8RhuLlfB8XiNpPs3xCWBdoKzRWUfiBe2xsRklgMEJG0s00vEBZLH_Uk-ICqkLAP_dH55FfNX60vT9B1eT2JyPWe53qjM6fdraWJWSgHPtnA5AjAfCAe33jZ/s645/04.login.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="461" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg20pI027ThrW1N7r2Z3CtRN4SOBzHlKRvw4B8Htzpl3gGPLO4nHuTum_jaEUmQSkQCQlIrj8RhuLlfB8XiNpPs3xCWBdoKzRWUfiBe2xsRklgMEJG0s00vEBZLH_Uk-ICqkLAP_dH55FfNX60vT9B1eT2JyPWe53qjM6fdraWJWSgHPtnA5AjAfCAe33jZ/w286-h400/04.login.png" width="286" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">To customize it, head to the vIDM Admin console (<b>https:/"vIDM_FQDN"/SAAS/admin</b>). </div><div style="text-align: left;">Under the "<i>Identity & Access Management</i>" tab, click on "<i>Setup</i>"...</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZUoSPSSw5GmtOc84h1H302Hq7fL_TL7rjlvMg1ys0ozim05LDPUvYcVvTmYIbiuSxM__27J7bmUjsEkeThH6v5AEj5cEAKyccVLGVZe08N3rDidY4tBu2ItEDLc7d-QhoVTIZ0RGt9WvvpZVelswP69iXUivPlXjqEUv3gh6A4A8h5HaUcL0b1uWkjM2/s1894/05.setup.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="1894" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijZUoSPSSw5GmtOc84h1H302Hq7fL_TL7rjlvMg1ys0ozim05LDPUvYcVvTmYIbiuSxM__27J7bmUjsEkeThH6v5AEj5cEAKyccVLGVZe08N3rDidY4tBu2ItEDLc7d-QhoVTIZ0RGt9WvvpZVelswP69iXUivPlXjqEUv3gh6A4A8h5HaUcL0b1uWkjM2/w640-h126/05.setup.png" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /> to reveal the coveted "<i>Custom Branding</i>" option. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghv-0RwdVA02cFKkyE50Z6YF2eq9mKpbh0MH4oafVDyks90xnGm3-a6zMnB84ahY2HPSB6cuEMwlHLbV_qQF8b7gutSQdgYiIEXpaThk-BJXJHUW6jzgYf3uBgJGEpuWAzolzRe740SUXQ66SluYrPvU2NqfDaS35GHjndwaUMWNOE9D1UgYNoy9jFncKx/s875/%2005.customBranding.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="875" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghv-0RwdVA02cFKkyE50Z6YF2eq9mKpbh0MH4oafVDyks90xnGm3-a6zMnB84ahY2HPSB6cuEMwlHLbV_qQF8b7gutSQdgYiIEXpaThk-BJXJHUW6jzgYf3uBgJGEpuWAzolzRe740SUXQ66SluYrPvU2NqfDaS35GHjndwaUMWNOE9D1UgYNoy9jFncKx/w640-h270/%2005.customBranding.png" width="640" /></a></div><p> </p><p>Under "<i>Names & Logos</i>", you can refine your browser title page, effortlessly aligning it with your brand essence.</p><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRl9S_CfeQZKve74M6gmTc4Idii45N9gFsjnPhTOqzn0vdCYgWQxgkvu4olUj94MWy_RUDzGvWp3WUfJvR5_B5OKvU5y34aY27Im0XO1R7ugrQOf-h_ImGSXN7mUe38r9WPR2CIwuUCKZRddWu5y25WABgHRQ-fOOVm3TluVCZRnNzH_CknNz1OpjhsOmh/s737/07.browser.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="737" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRl9S_CfeQZKve74M6gmTc4Idii45N9gFsjnPhTOqzn0vdCYgWQxgkvu4olUj94MWy_RUDzGvWp3WUfJvR5_B5OKvU5y34aY27Im0XO1R7ugrQOf-h_ImGSXN7mUe38r9WPR2CIwuUCKZRddWu5y25WABgHRQ-fOOVm3TluVCZRnNzH_CknNz1OpjhsOmh/w400-h328/07.browser.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>Creating a personalized page title;</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpid92hpKexRt_CrUX-Fwi7MWSjpUfT1pmMxvMTc0fUpFBRVM8vBF27Ki39uQfOORNg0wp12hA6esU6Mw4x9hyljziPxYNNUf_yRPVqSCTlglEXUhZIWt5LC3-EZxJ5f-ODLmoXxZ3_8fDbo-j8HR2UoiIP-G7E_YlcjpxFbHmaeonGjKAvpdV5k0-JmgF/s487/08.title.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="487" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpid92hpKexRt_CrUX-Fwi7MWSjpUfT1pmMxvMTc0fUpFBRVM8vBF27Ki39uQfOORNg0wp12hA6esU6Mw4x9hyljziPxYNNUf_yRPVqSCTlglEXUhZIWt5LC3-EZxJ5f-ODLmoXxZ3_8fDbo-j8HR2UoiIP-G7E_YlcjpxFbHmaeonGjKAvpdV5k0-JmgF/w640-h144/08.title.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">Delving deeper into customization by navigating to the "<i>Sign-in Screen</i>" section. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Here, intuitive fields allow you to control the visual elements of your login screen. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Ru5vHJh-TsapkiejFki7Mv8rcnsnBccwo1uP6QOuJf_PLb5f9psfSG5Rjhs5PYDnKvpeEIqVX7k9SKBo7S_QDlaB6Et3IRIqpFCSgKeN2hhwCLpZ-sOMswQ9-9nItvGACAqDhj1jxY5RiIlzMyQI5Z10cxM_ILKdaInrr79LTsyQqiP5W2TeldWvIKgo/s956/09.login.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="956" height="573" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Ru5vHJh-TsapkiejFki7Mv8rcnsnBccwo1uP6QOuJf_PLb5f9psfSG5Rjhs5PYDnKvpeEIqVX7k9SKBo7S_QDlaB6Et3IRIqpFCSgKeN2hhwCLpZ-sOMswQ9-9nItvGACAqDhj1jxY5RiIlzMyQI5Z10cxM_ILKdaInrr79LTsyQqiP5W2TeldWvIKgo/w640-h573/09.login.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><p></p><p></p><p>With each customization, your portal seamlessly mirrors your corporate identity, creating a lasting impression on every user. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwcQituZK-VfTVp-q3YD0nYnlEaYT0Ro3N_TIH5VUDQ36SRLG77wSUN332joDZzvkjWItMQ80Sfaxn2Zjh-SeLhKPp1CLgcQwhJPIPOCvV5-hAJP2D5TRw5kfH6wQMkdcJSLMg50q55xH6uKHl7cNHT22SyP8itsCa5dAPL5wiMuKOuBEo4pkR5PKtQuf/s508/10.login.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="382" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJwcQituZK-VfTVp-q3YD0nYnlEaYT0Ro3N_TIH5VUDQ36SRLG77wSUN332joDZzvkjWItMQ80Sfaxn2Zjh-SeLhKPp1CLgcQwhJPIPOCvV5-hAJP2D5TRw5kfH6wQMkdcJSLMg50q55xH6uKHl7cNHT22SyP8itsCa5dAPL5wiMuKOuBEo4pkR5PKtQuf/w301-h400/10.login.png" width="301" /></a></div><p>One last final touch allows to enhance user experience further by customizing password recovery information.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgPXEHhFFBDSnFNQOH8aPBZe-o8D9HxJc7MfLL9FpoacbDp3FR37f66JzHRegRG8lsrv_8pTnFkdsZ-4VEJIwQ77HaupDOjxtTtt0wzo6BFOA_5XQQo6R-SyqvyTO86EEThW8B6LfrBnMzw8l4to5njmkNTuFV0ZvCb03CXbGDMuu9nFxZbdoM_79F0-5o/s540/11.forgot.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="434" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgPXEHhFFBDSnFNQOH8aPBZe-o8D9HxJc7MfLL9FpoacbDp3FR37f66JzHRegRG8lsrv_8pTnFkdsZ-4VEJIwQ77HaupDOjxtTtt0wzo6BFOA_5XQQo6R-SyqvyTO86EEThW8B6LfrBnMzw8l4to5njmkNTuFV0ZvCb03CXbGDMuu9nFxZbdoM_79F0-5o/w321-h400/11.forgot.png" width="321" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"> In the "Manage" section, discover "<i>Password Recovery Assistance</i>." </div><div style="text-align: left;">Craft your own messages or provide URLs for users to reset passwords, seek additional information, or open support cases <br /></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMsWBqbZaHt81XohjCLyXvP13C727_qDTyY-yZblaFPzNWPLjKHOEasKto_JV9_gCcp2fIgqHNVM526u61HwCnzkrbKmly_oLQFw6dq5_AMq0hyphenhyphenzSjM85olLvYTXM_Nda5zT8rRLnaTOABaqi_l-kDC0jgs5VErw7m2qIYd-wzDqz-nR-Q63Oxd8NXlqhs/s1887/13.password.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1887" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMsWBqbZaHt81XohjCLyXvP13C727_qDTyY-yZblaFPzNWPLjKHOEasKto_JV9_gCcp2fIgqHNVM526u61HwCnzkrbKmly_oLQFw6dq5_AMq0hyphenhyphenzSjM85olLvYTXM_Nda5zT8rRLnaTOABaqi_l-kDC0jgs5VErw7m2qIYd-wzDqz-nR-Q63Oxd8NXlqhs/w640-h224/13.password.png" width="640" /></a></div>. <p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This level of customization ensures that every interaction aligns with your brand's communication style.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEoR277u-toe83saGfx4QfvDis2irTBSmtyQFDQr6AM6Yu2mmPj02w6XGL_Dil3HkIb2AfLSjtk9p7EzUjc2oia_r3g2yKWuQgIGBy2lgBuW3bro32tkdcrFguAfupWMmn6wSGbOUrz5mrSGk5X6bIBghewer0WeFIxll92cMc8yqx87LVP-hm96BFJxW/s478/12.recover.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="393" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLEoR277u-toe83saGfx4QfvDis2irTBSmtyQFDQr6AM6Yu2mmPj02w6XGL_Dil3HkIb2AfLSjtk9p7EzUjc2oia_r3g2yKWuQgIGBy2lgBuW3bro32tkdcrFguAfupWMmn6wSGbOUrz5mrSGk5X6bIBghewer0WeFIxll92cMc8yqx87LVP-hm96BFJxW/w329-h400/12.recover.png" width="329" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Happy customization !!!!</p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-40177343801657736982024-02-06T05:00:00.001-03:002024-02-06T05:00:00.143-03:00Aria on the Road - February 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4RYmvn-POtl4aSf1btGiankEDjedE_qDwr-6D7c2UjvrMIYU0l2pu2t_dbNkZ2x5ffI5SOfz3RfHlDbqft4VrKwPuYzVWCF5VyiePzBAPoNMw0WhkQsAulcDjwdaOd8rSWLU4cgroyN7myxr-nmYbYsbGj_gXsthV6jpSFsJ45_TJy1WTP7Z53QYgS2-/s532/roadmap.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="532" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic4RYmvn-POtl4aSf1btGiankEDjedE_qDwr-6D7c2UjvrMIYU0l2pu2t_dbNkZ2x5ffI5SOfz3RfHlDbqft4VrKwPuYzVWCF5VyiePzBAPoNMw0WhkQsAulcDjwdaOd8rSWLU4cgroyN7myxr-nmYbYsbGj_gXsthV6jpSFsJ45_TJy1WTP7Z53QYgS2-/w400-h353/roadmap.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">A new era of innovation and simplicity is dawning as VMware by Broadcom takes decisive steps towards customer success. This journey begins with a<span> </span></span><a href="https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-transformation" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">strategic portfolio simplification</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, aimed at crafting the most comprehensive and integrated private cloud platform,<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-foundation.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">VMware Cloud Foundation</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In the spirit of this transformation,<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria.html" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">VMware Aria</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span> </span>is no longer a standalone solution; it has seamlessly woven itself into the fabric of VCF. This integration marks the inception of a dynamic phase where we anticipate a flurry of integrations and customer-driven feature releases in the coming months.</span><p></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw346NUZT6VKqFr64NoIHjHZ" href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" style="color: #0086f0;" target="_blank" title="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.2;">VMware Aria Automation</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.2;"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2;"><br /><b>On-Premises</b>: version 8.16 on 17/Jan/2024 -<span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw1zhOiwT2LWpPoIiZhtl2bu" href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" style="color: #0086f0;" target="_blank" title="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html"><span lang="EN-US">Release notes:</span></a></span></p><ul style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Secrets received a much-asked feature,<span> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.justait.net/2024/01/global-secrets.html&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw2aRx9hQG7RBAW2Njy8g2jd" href="http://www.justait.net/2024/01/global-secrets.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Organization Scope</a>, allowing your secrets to be globally shared and avoiding extra configurations;</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiLddf9Nhl-WP3tuGbS-5wMlk3RnpUCHQMy9rFHQue3Ojpx8R0yqzRMqyS3NQUkAf4xFdh4_H24Ev9VQuIjnvAFJodfdE5RndxdZDbVYn1zu_XoSuKdZXxvkyqiA0LErluNYbF82aqV1ehxoj_4vB3xs7jHa5KJjo64wQFR5jVAdSTxcrwdm8CR30RecrW/s640/Global_secret.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Following the steps of Virtual Machine rebuild, it's now possible to rebuild everything from the Deployment level;</span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY3PlTB0xWe0SzWbKJlQ03cXddzheBHjodSBpXWZ8lISww2GA8IjFNfAu7yq9uAtnu4yPP3Tc0HrRYbK5dx7yhtYZVul1gRiqSl9gfndrjMEis6UWR8GCAeub7uxuoQWvfWcKCHdYry1gQHDyMqHDRbcu0WOHMY45jsKYPLqd0DjnoUEWsSjT5s6T90Wx_/s336/Rebuild.deployment.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="336" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY3PlTB0xWe0SzWbKJlQ03cXddzheBHjodSBpXWZ8lISww2GA8IjFNfAu7yq9uAtnu4yPP3Tc0HrRYbK5dx7yhtYZVul1gRiqSl9gfndrjMEis6UWR8GCAeub7uxuoQWvfWcKCHdYry1gQHDyMqHDRbcu0WOHMY45jsKYPLqd0DjnoUEWsSjT5s6T90Wx_/s320/Rebuild.deployment.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw3boWGA2bk6hjbLXkFX5_lH" href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html" style="color: #0086f0;" target="_blank" title="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.2;">VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator</span></a></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2;"><b>On-Premises</b>: version 8.16 on 17/Jan/2024 - </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw1zhOiwT2LWpPoIiZhtl2bu" href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" style="color: #0086f0;" target="_blank" title="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html"><span lang="EN-US">Release notes:</span></a></span><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.2;"> </span></p><ul style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" type="disc"><li><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Enhanced Orchestrator access management with dedicated roles;</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAM4NMXD-rNNEbamUzLZ9PmO3COCNHyoawGQsLtKyMLk6PXpO9j5Um7CC9IZaQcmSN3qQJDFuW6AfE2A0R_6h1UPrwKVOpWTqb0Nx3CYQDkVvbXgCmgJpEX_o2sMEISgpygSOacXBlFEu6xV5lolvzHUzxgEs0t-hmP6IlxTjPmVg0IBAlkWVsaMqiBFzA/s1118/Orchestrator_roles.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="1118" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAM4NMXD-rNNEbamUzLZ9PmO3COCNHyoawGQsLtKyMLk6PXpO9j5Um7CC9IZaQcmSN3qQJDFuW6AfE2A0R_6h1UPrwKVOpWTqb0Nx3CYQDkVvbXgCmgJpEX_o2sMEISgpygSOacXBlFEu6xV5lolvzHUzxgEs0t-hmP6IlxTjPmVg0IBAlkWVsaMqiBFzA/w640-h240/Orchestrator_roles.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw0NJQbQMMlgGIcpyxFO1fYe" href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" style="color: #0086f0;" target="_blank" title="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.2;">VMware Aria Operations</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.2;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0cm; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span lang="EN-US"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">On-Premises</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">: version 8.14.1 on 16/Jan/2024</span><span style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> -</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/services/rn/vmware-aria-operations-saas-release-notes/index.html&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw3GlQXccuxmdSKGc7Pn7aE9" href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/8.14.1/rn/vmware-aria-operations-8141-release-notes/index.html" style="color: #0086f0;" target="_blank" title="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/services/rn/vmware-aria-operations-saas-release-notes/index.html"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Release notes:</span></span></a><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></b></p><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><ul><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">It's a maintenance release, some fixes include;</span></li><ul><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">missing Dashboard names;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Internal error message when navigating to resource summary;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Notification sent regardless of status;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Ping check not working when Timeout value is not a float;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">K8s cluster/namespace cost;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">/var/log/messages rotation.</span></li></ul></ul></div><p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #666666; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background: none 0% 0%/auto repeat scroll padding-box border-box rgb(255,192,0); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0cm 5.4pt; width: 857.5pt;" valign="top" width="1143"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 1.2;">Bonus Track</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 1.2;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: large;">VMware Aria SaaS (Automation/Operations) is going into End of Availability, meaning new customers won't be able to purchase or onboard into those services, for customers with an ongoing/valid subscription there will be no interruption of services, and will be supported until the end of its contract normally. Although SaaS services will no longer receive updates other than security and bug fixes, so we recommend customers migrate those services to on-prem. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/01/22/vmware-end-of-availability-of-perpetual-licensing-and-saas-services/&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw2Y_MhmUHENTsQAWSlQTf9Y" href="https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/01/22/vmware-end-of-availability-of-perpetual-licensing-and-saas-services/" target="_blank">More details can be found here</a>:</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">A VMware Aria Automation vulnerability Missing Access Control vulnerability has been reported to VMware and the fix has already been released. Please, update your system as soon as possible; details <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2024-0001.html&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw0h8S6s0WtQOx9c5ad8bURU" href="https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2024-0001.html" target="_blank">VMSA-2024-0001</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Don't lose support !!!</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">Aria Automation<span> </span></span></b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">8.12 end of support by April 20th, 2024.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">Aria Automation </span></b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">8.12.1 end of support by May 15th, 2024.</span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">Aria Automation </span></b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">8.12.2 end of support by June 29th, 2024.</span><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">Aria Automation </span></b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">8.13 end of support by August 03rd, 2024.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">Aria Operations for Logs </span></b><span style="line-height: 1.2;">8.10 end of support by April 28th, 2024.</span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Check the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lifecycle.vmware.com/&source=gmail&ust=1707243519958000&usg=AOvVaw2g-uP8HCYNEVrHhziB-6sd" href="https://lifecycle.vmware.com/" target="_blank">product lifecycle matrix</a> for more details: We strongly recommend keeping your solutions to the latest version possible, ensuring the best experience and active support. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">Maintaining your environment up to date has been incredibly ease and automated with the use of <a href="https://www.vmware.com/br/products/aria-suite-lifecycle.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle</a>.</span></p></div>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-75630517822517823852024-02-01T09:59:00.007-03:002024-02-01T10:01:45.965-03:00Extending Aria Operations Actions<p> </p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Embarking on our journey toward a self-healing infrastructure, today's focus is on amplifying the actions within <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations</a> through <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator</a> workflows.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">In my <a href="http://www.justait.net/2024/01/orchestrator-auth-error.html" target="_blank">previous blog post</a>, we seamlessly integrated our management platform, Aria Operations, with the automation engine, Aria Automation Orchestrator. The immediate boon? An expanded array of actions accessible directly from the Operations UI, eliminating the need to toggle back and forth with the vCenter console and conducting in a new era of agile operations.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hqVtoA8RQm5UvV49jqf3HmQDs0ByVjZ5Nju0vhHZsQT9jvfF5ZICO8ujH9PaKfW-cnO-Zep5zFVgXOJ5jLVIv8bWNVGYGCr6Y44gY-ZOLk_-QVI8LeLcQJJFsx9nlc9pfrz0jfl81KQSlAthrSdURL4o6aRTjS8zcExDwN6RR1wxe3W8jTHoFRuj59RK/s898/New_actions.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="661" data-original-width="898" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_hqVtoA8RQm5UvV49jqf3HmQDs0ByVjZ5Nju0vhHZsQT9jvfF5ZICO8ujH9PaKfW-cnO-Zep5zFVgXOJ5jLVIv8bWNVGYGCr6Y44gY-ZOLk_-QVI8LeLcQJJFsx9nlc9pfrz0jfl81KQSlAthrSdURL4o6aRTjS8zcExDwN6RR1wxe3W8jTHoFRuj59RK/w640-h472/New_actions.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This new capability exponentially multiplies the opportunities, exposing hundreds of workflows. But you might notice not all of them are readily available. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Here's the catch: you need to bind the workflows with a specific object, defining the target for execution. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Follow these steps to bind workflows to objects:<br /></span></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Navigate to: <i>Environment / Inventory / Adapter Instances / Orchestrator Adapter Instance / Aria Orchestrator. <br /></i></span></li></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJHEqIYhnqy7NY-8z8_aQe5RRmvJQg2tMR9NYyZX6rrM30b4mL4HqNrVgJDQkQQsyO-6kuZqbXactJVYWtK4c6lTH_vrVTBd3MVy_g1sC4pMw4IOZa5uoY7huheN3-KBzGWvJ9ZVgsq_dmSyiRmnCoxq-mXbr7MevaTkmbipsOe_2cIy5EKqWhmEou00XN/s740/%20workflows_adapter.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="740" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJHEqIYhnqy7NY-8z8_aQe5RRmvJQg2tMR9NYyZX6rrM30b4mL4HqNrVgJDQkQQsyO-6kuZqbXactJVYWtK4c6lTH_vrVTBd3MVy_g1sC4pMw4IOZa5uoY7huheN3-KBzGWvJ9ZVgsq_dmSyiRmnCoxq-mXbr7MevaTkmbipsOe_2cIy5EKqWhmEou00XN/w640-h298/%20workflows_adapter.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Select the desired workflow and click on the gear icon to "<i>Create/Modify.</i>"</span></li></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6_9og-rj-UsDtR_eYKnz081aWX8GLNIoQXBwwEviG6ufeyOOqXb5FlV7kBHHT5mnxYteVsKFYQD4QnxuSy_njdRrzfOsApd7MdZgvuGS28WofacwH-LwNryf084GFz0-s6XUjSWqd0bPAV94RPkfBSUmBr3Kmq-NGHQG69xPJ0ExdFhlC37oACOoKsDD_/s701/modify_workflow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="701" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6_9og-rj-UsDtR_eYKnz081aWX8GLNIoQXBwwEviG6ufeyOOqXb5FlV7kBHHT5mnxYteVsKFYQD4QnxuSy_njdRrzfOsApd7MdZgvuGS28WofacwH-LwNryf084GFz0-s6XUjSWqd0bPAV94RPkfBSUmBr3Kmq-NGHQG69xPJ0ExdFhlC37oACOoKsDD_/w640-h290/modify_workflow.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Bind the resource type by specifying the right <i>Resource Type</i> and <i>Target Resource Type</i> (must be the same), in this case, Virtual Machine. Select <i>Add</i> for the operation field. </span></li></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ5RbTxnLJgM0lYd0eiR5eKlML9bPOapygLow2DrhFZKZfCCtsL09VFls192PGxwNzfmqQhkz4-XBNL3yUlawqyBhW3F2DIDJYfOQADxcbmLODTze_XkUEhkQn90F4DPLGEHLone8Xlu2-Zx3mSPu8txM1QK_O8lCGETSmK-Ee_Vq9SeeLu_WCIaLiwh8J/s890/add_workflow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="890" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ5RbTxnLJgM0lYd0eiR5eKlML9bPOapygLow2DrhFZKZfCCtsL09VFls192PGxwNzfmqQhkz4-XBNL3yUlawqyBhW3F2DIDJYfOQADxcbmLODTze_XkUEhkQn90F4DPLGEHLone8Xlu2-Zx3mSPu8txM1QK_O8lCGETSmK-Ee_Vq9SeeLu_WCIaLiwh8J/w640-h350/add_workflow.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">In instants , your new action is ready to be fired on</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu_yXlmwn8hd5_IVo0I1ml8SwBfF_s0gfLIUrXLIHqGllAn4YQAlEqrI1kUfHZBsbE6tmj-HdJhtZboVdqPVU2rUF239shreiQrlc8y_rdcFMuDLX1upIfri7rJNfbi4kzOG24VxLdMcurL_vvkdazcxAWFju2e4oL1lVWfGEWkW6K2iMFm5Aepc8ru2C2/s629/newly_added.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="511" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu_yXlmwn8hd5_IVo0I1ml8SwBfF_s0gfLIUrXLIHqGllAn4YQAlEqrI1kUfHZBsbE6tmj-HdJhtZboVdqPVU2rUF239shreiQrlc8y_rdcFMuDLX1upIfri7rJNfbi4kzOG24VxLdMcurL_vvkdazcxAWFju2e4oL1lVWfGEWkW6K2iMFm5Aepc8ru2C2/w520-h640/newly_added.png" width="520" /></a></div><div><br /><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">But what about your precious custom workflows? </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Aria Operations doesn't automatically fetch all workflows; </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Here's where a bit of customization comes into play.</span></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li class="ql-indent-1" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">First, create a package in Orchestrator containing the workflows you wish to make available in Operations.</span></li></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyPRsz5fJT9caFZU3Y61bf6ta46HvBL7ItR1_GWc6ABhvUvwxnsxnx72S2MWpYJrVXUlEM2ZGpyAX5PMKugjAPCfeNdphFiPRmkWS-78-_FlVVHxUYOFlv1bSC99zJz35J6ap8hKUl1Hq3ZsNk83KRprkqqNBlGd4DOOr_BD-PFN9awuMofDmGZXjjXfuw/s888/packages.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="888" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyPRsz5fJT9caFZU3Y61bf6ta46HvBL7ItR1_GWc6ABhvUvwxnsxnx72S2MWpYJrVXUlEM2ZGpyAX5PMKugjAPCfeNdphFiPRmkWS-78-_FlVVHxUYOFlv1bSC99zJz35J6ap8hKUl1Hq3ZsNk83KRprkqqNBlGd4DOOr_BD-PFN9awuMofDmGZXjjXfuw/s16000/packages.png" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li class="ql-indent-1" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Head to <i>Environment / Inventory / Adapter Instances</i> and select <i>Orchestrator Adapter Instance</i>.</span></li></ul></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdHudR4dpuOK-3u3uyuhDhTdRkyW9INzPi_s5-rgMuAgOu3yvj3Rsfwtj8CULCRFA7jtpi_-26DOa7h7hkqAygDJut-RNjLOlfx4u80kRXxxtwSxu4ZHdNaWLXycg53syzgdKiBoqbQHZHoQs1kG-LVVgqexwxMjIcZvYuLCRXSpuodqOlrlpw8DWEzViq/s958/custom_workflows.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="958" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdHudR4dpuOK-3u3uyuhDhTdRkyW9INzPi_s5-rgMuAgOu3yvj3Rsfwtj8CULCRFA7jtpi_-26DOa7h7hkqAygDJut-RNjLOlfx4u80kRXxxtwSxu4ZHdNaWLXycg53syzgdKiBoqbQHZHoQs1kG-LVVgqexwxMjIcZvYuLCRXSpuodqOlrlpw8DWEzViq/w640-h280/custom_workflows.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li class="ql-indent-1" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Under Aria Orchestrator, click on the gear icon and choose "<i>Configure Package Discovery</i>".</span></li></ul></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkjuF2JKbCH3UFv2MIKzutmxkJCqW1u6_DjPUFyJ4PUNUoODIdbrIbIfeeXshHrM_p-MprX4CNmenYZjffASxGgt9EqrnmhnWmF4flAp0itcaSbbqouRaUKZ5JvISWVsDOuRCX8HUsVjRqLNQW7ffjmAbvzqtTPP1Aj2lk58yyz2VCqSeHCA9AXjldhRKX/s689/Package_discovery.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="689" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkjuF2JKbCH3UFv2MIKzutmxkJCqW1u6_DjPUFyJ4PUNUoODIdbrIbIfeeXshHrM_p-MprX4CNmenYZjffASxGgt9EqrnmhnWmF4flAp0itcaSbbqouRaUKZ5JvISWVsDOuRCX8HUsVjRqLNQW7ffjmAbvzqtTPP1Aj2lk58yyz2VCqSeHCA9AXjldhRKX/w640-h310/Package_discovery.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li class="ql-indent-1" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Add your package name to the list of discovered packages and kickstart the action.</span></li></ul></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8M31P0mR5wdPHPbu8gON0od-gzAF_GxUC4b9nwr0bhuYrdFQ5IImRgQxmpyr0QdAGyTA-N7t2_hL35qk6ycodxfkEzuijEMgaEOYxHOutCOsnMaeb3V2iXAIfKgO-YYG0CNrnNc3sq3AEzXTFCxR0Z1lMH6yxqP2VVlSj5tB1A6ZR3gAIfJem8NGywXG/s484/discovery_package.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="484" data-original-width="473" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF8M31P0mR5wdPHPbu8gON0od-gzAF_GxUC4b9nwr0bhuYrdFQ5IImRgQxmpyr0QdAGyTA-N7t2_hL35qk6ycodxfkEzuijEMgaEOYxHOutCOsnMaeb3V2iXAIfKgO-YYG0CNrnNc3sq3AEzXTFCxR0Z1lMH6yxqP2VVlSj5tB1A6ZR3gAIfJem8NGywXG/w391-h400/discovery_package.png" width="391" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">in a few minutes, your custom workflow is added to the list</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IhBw-sx4Yh7hPpaClfEDa7RnGQ3sFOSHl-4WO4ka3GJtaKP8Jdag6d2R__b3KwNZl411-UgYYLmHJq_fxn6RnbZT71U6JisFvANyqj4GHMhLK0jpvFsiga_z7UvZOmyd5X85BjalXDXbZ8wjGPdeor4fn9jubhlmOMxi-s31_ePFpX22tfQrThOzsMVD/s715/new_custom_workflow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="715" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-IhBw-sx4Yh7hPpaClfEDa7RnGQ3sFOSHl-4WO4ka3GJtaKP8Jdag6d2R__b3KwNZl411-UgYYLmHJq_fxn6RnbZT71U6JisFvANyqj4GHMhLK0jpvFsiga_z7UvZOmyd5X85BjalXDXbZ8wjGPdeor4fn9jubhlmOMxi-s31_ePFpX22tfQrThOzsMVD/w640-h322/new_custom_workflow.png" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Once your package is discovered and your custom workflow is available inside the platform you just need to bind it to an object just like we did for regular workflows.</p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAIC1ANysuF7mzt50P8NpbYSgm72D104cIaklTDMS7QUSq-k6YlkUg31CgMxBiwoNhIlY950S9jh6MrwIauas09P9qpZ4T-gob8rsYx9iQRSZXEZOFrKtFAuMDSFBQ__WI1Fp6fBLjIybO7Q25K7X79hFpJORyHjswIdroCjMP-1S8jAJ6bWTfo02gA0j/s654/workflow_inaction.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="505" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAIC1ANysuF7mzt50P8NpbYSgm72D104cIaklTDMS7QUSq-k6YlkUg31CgMxBiwoNhIlY950S9jh6MrwIauas09P9qpZ4T-gob8rsYx9iQRSZXEZOFrKtFAuMDSFBQ__WI1Fp6fBLjIybO7Q25K7X79hFpJORyHjswIdroCjMP-1S8jAJ6bWTfo02gA0j/w494-h640/workflow_inaction.png" width="494" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This harmonious integration not only broadens the spectrum of actions at your disposal but also underscores the flexibility to tailor your operations.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Next, we will cover how to automate those actions to a real self-healing infrastructure</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">stay tuned</span></p></div>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-23165208495468977042024-01-24T10:48:00.001-03:002024-01-24T10:48:27.034-03:00Global Secrets<p> In the complex landscape of <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> cloud templates, the need often arises to incorporate sensitive information: passwords, license keys, webhooks, and more. <br />The challenge lies in maintaining security while utilizing these crucial elements within the templates without compromissing it.<br /><br />Enter "<a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/8.16/Using-Automation-Assembler/GUID-895A8127-CC67-4A53-B633-879F373E7606.html" target="_blank"><b>Secrets</b></a>," a resilient and encrypted mechanism within automation. It serves as a guardian, allowing you to create, store, and reuse vital values in your cloud templates without exposing them to end-users.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCa7b61HLYDpRuq7NmYsKs42P72pncGnb2s3zTmrLcPImIN9RCB7yDRMgLBSeqV3yhgphA4cgHIYhCX9xnV8sXLHym1oC3tHTLNJzINe-ZSFWMaaPKh-_D4gfzI3rNmjHWZSGrhKLwYtoUmDkroM_OcmugrwwmHkpyArKR2UygE7oIC3uh56-ID_AdRLk5/s934/Secrets.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="934" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCa7b61HLYDpRuq7NmYsKs42P72pncGnb2s3zTmrLcPImIN9RCB7yDRMgLBSeqV3yhgphA4cgHIYhCX9xnV8sXLHym1oC3tHTLNJzINe-ZSFWMaaPKh-_D4gfzI3rNmjHWZSGrhKLwYtoUmDkroM_OcmugrwwmHkpyArKR2UygE7oIC3uh56-ID_AdRLk5/w640-h248/Secrets.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>While Secrets have long been a valiant feature, they were project-based, necessitating the recreation of the same secret for each project over and over.<br /><br />Not anymore, <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation 8.16</a>, now, you can harness the power of Global Secrets, transcending the limitations of project-specific confinement. This means a single secret can now be available across all your projects.<br /><br />When setting up the secret, you have the option to choose its scope, either Organization or Project-based. Opting for Organization ensures it's universally accessible, streamlining your workflow and eliminating redundant configurations.</p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrLB4dntQIbXJ1YHIeE9UxxLVFkUe8uKBChVEwXn0peCXqvqs_qKVERuGL0QpEC9EOjFXpwjLuo5C-eszEgISNNOlJvMWOzRBwOgAISFerRQf8VwY2mO1_ETzrDit6fSuKm2Em5BPe0rf15tq4xUInNPELx4ccw1rqRGA_tUA9qfrlrPd7NcGwsomIKZQL/s734/Global_secret.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="734" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrLB4dntQIbXJ1YHIeE9UxxLVFkUe8uKBChVEwXn0peCXqvqs_qKVERuGL0QpEC9EOjFXpwjLuo5C-eszEgISNNOlJvMWOzRBwOgAISFerRQf8VwY2mO1_ETzrDit6fSuKm2Em5BPe0rf15tq4xUInNPELx4ccw1rqRGA_tUA9qfrlrPd7NcGwsomIKZQL/w640-h304/Global_secret.png" width="640" /></a></div><p> </p><p>While Organization Secrets provide a universal solution, the option to create project-based secrets still exists. This is where you can cherry-pick specific projects that will consume these secrets.</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEqZqSQW_fr07_4KKLxCmIeUOFBKsDLu5jXfBFtL3u2bfMO6l7QxHXXNXyYAsSO34MKzZPM4U8pp_M2NNgpKH2HR_E9jZweDsAmrEn-yTluwOI7jE6Zr97whhhQ4XwHyxhn8EEO7-jNrVHNe45l9lSelrTt0OsJtXuAjFvQB4j9M2s1Dmxa78EVl3e5N6/s803/Project_secret.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="803" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEqZqSQW_fr07_4KKLxCmIeUOFBKsDLu5jXfBFtL3u2bfMO6l7QxHXXNXyYAsSO34MKzZPM4U8pp_M2NNgpKH2HR_E9jZweDsAmrEn-yTluwOI7jE6Zr97whhhQ4XwHyxhn8EEO7-jNrVHNe45l9lSelrTt0OsJtXuAjFvQB4j9M2s1Dmxa78EVl3e5N6/w640-h482/Project_secret.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>The beauty lies in flexibility, tailoring the configuration to match your project's unique requirements.<br />Happy Automation !!!</p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-45156473502400558012024-01-15T15:09:00.004-03:002024-02-01T10:20:07.815-03:00A Self-Healing Journey - Integration<p> </p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRFQ-s46JO2qWr5X39ETrptnoQVmanmXsUaSSTyYDU8rrJTFmeb8vFQz0Wbg8IXK2KzRTgsH5htfvhhqfh50qys6dQFjnGt9YK0iOv1FI6yAnZyt4thCacjWp9mAbS1N2g777kEM8Vtym6nk89PrQzZYqZgnpUG1GTJWOjMI8q_j4n6hMxBJgZVB7qxyV/s1366/Imagem1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1366" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBRFQ-s46JO2qWr5X39ETrptnoQVmanmXsUaSSTyYDU8rrJTFmeb8vFQz0Wbg8IXK2KzRTgsH5htfvhhqfh50qys6dQFjnGt9YK0iOv1FI6yAnZyt4thCacjWp9mAbS1N2g777kEM8Vtym6nk89PrQzZYqZgnpUG1GTJWOjMI8q_j4n6hMxBJgZVB7qxyV/w640-h508/Imagem1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">When it comes to monitoring and operating <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-foundation.html" target="_blank">VMware Cloud Foundation</a> environments, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations</a> stands as the unparalleled champion. From robust capacity management and observability to cost analysis and compliance tracking, it proves itself as THE BEST platform for comprehensive management.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">However, with maturity in operations comes a natural desire for more autonomous processes, ones infused with self-healing mechanisms and automated remediations. Aria Operations doesn't just meet this desire; it exceeds expectations.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Within its arsenal are pre-built workflows that work wonders in various scenarios, but the real magic happens when you extend its reach and craft your customized remediations through the use of <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator</a> workflows, seamlessly integrated as part of the <a href="https://marketplace.cloud.vmware.com/services/details/vmware-aria-operations-management-pack-for-vmware-aria-automation-orchestrator-3-3-1?slug=true" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator.</a></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Once installed, you just need to add a new integration.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC6XDBA7ol3Y4So4-xT3rlA2LNWuR234m6ZJtdbohmPVW31ffklw2Ip8rxyCATFsZVzV43E1acDPU3o7gLeyHaMB2RDFAvYx4h3Krtk7mDuh2-2qnRBVGpTCpqGhK4n_JpMcSYGNYLqrzv33cXSchNvviT6C8wA3B3YctqFuiH8TgjZW1JbRZyyQOry7D9/s1466/Integration.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="304" data-original-width="1466" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC6XDBA7ol3Y4So4-xT3rlA2LNWuR234m6ZJtdbohmPVW31ffklw2Ip8rxyCATFsZVzV43E1acDPU3o7gLeyHaMB2RDFAvYx4h3Krtk7mDuh2-2qnRBVGpTCpqGhK4n_JpMcSYGNYLqrzv33cXSchNvviT6C8wA3B3YctqFuiH8TgjZW1JbRZyyQOry7D9/w640-h133/Integration.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">One common roadblock manifests as an authentication error as follow:</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><i>"Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name an password"</i></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK2ctRLpXZchC25pbUt_YdnRRLV0nCnMGt9bW0Bc05sfFjugilSdWFIODyQhTvNsDJ4dBDK8wCrTu2NwzHA4y8IYbYmyUIzuLMy3jLEdJbWj3Z0jRDN3JIcyBbyuds8tTpGcJqYbgZ_eqtUnR9MKL2DdI_dEFkovd_GM3dRbMQw6OJWNydP_PPyFDGeDhr/s451/cannot_login.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="451" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK2ctRLpXZchC25pbUt_YdnRRLV0nCnMGt9bW0Bc05sfFjugilSdWFIODyQhTvNsDJ4dBDK8wCrTu2NwzHA4y8IYbYmyUIzuLMy3jLEdJbWj3Z0jRDN3JIcyBbyuds8tTpGcJqYbgZ_eqtUnR9MKL2DdI_dEFkovd_GM3dRbMQw6OJWNydP_PPyFDGeDhr/w400-h194/cannot_login.png" width="400" /></a></div><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Turns out you need to enable basic authentication on Orchestrator to allow this communication:</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">- Navigate to the Orchestrator Control Center: <b>https://"FQDN"/vco-center <br /></b></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">- Select System Properties</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMujTkAKjipEjaUf205m3WaBa2z76yZ1gqBU_yBotBRlccL7PNncgv4XLRGZmDgg5IUXKUzXgjp5NVE7WfpXf3yr30buB_097jk-byaZAaySrZ_jOLolsBKMNDdGnCH3mJdr9bTrJlFTvv2R65zpFQFqsVjz6KD6O2QonIjohZtIRMOpHOR8R_QCbwEcpy/s444/system_properties.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="444" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMujTkAKjipEjaUf205m3WaBa2z76yZ1gqBU_yBotBRlccL7PNncgv4XLRGZmDgg5IUXKUzXgjp5NVE7WfpXf3yr30buB_097jk-byaZAaySrZ_jOLolsBKMNDdGnCH3mJdr9bTrJlFTvv2R65zpFQFqsVjz6KD6O2QonIjohZtIRMOpHOR8R_QCbwEcpy/s320/system_properties.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">- add a new property as bellow:</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">key: </span><b style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">com.vmware.o11n.sso.basic-authentication.enabled</span></b></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">value: <b>true</b></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; 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color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Give it some minutes to Orchestrator service to restart and voila !!!</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKH6tC8YQHlfRAy-9tpC6_iVvx2agIXb8kTNYBDKlbV6yawH9QdGRa5XBoFMJgIccbCggYG7lWBdfY9v85PmVEWQLC1eV2QETS9bZBBhyuQvMIOrEVaNywdQIFsJzg6Jht6rUObmj59pQvOLCyNayDlv1F0m0PBxJTBEW7v_ukJumoRR3FbJ_R2-rdFFJj/s449/Login.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="449" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKH6tC8YQHlfRAy-9tpC6_iVvx2agIXb8kTNYBDKlbV6yawH9QdGRa5XBoFMJgIccbCggYG7lWBdfY9v85PmVEWQLC1eV2QETS9bZBBhyuQvMIOrEVaNywdQIFsJzg6Jht6rUObmj59pQvOLCyNayDlv1F0m0PBxJTBEW7v_ukJumoRR3FbJ_R2-rdFFJj/w400-h150/Login.png" width="400" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">With this simple adjustment, you transcend the barriers to customized remediations. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Dont miss how to <a href="http://www.justait.net/2024/02/actions-extended.html" target="_blank">expand the actions available in Aria Operations</a> with custom workflows;<br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-47254881764324286432024-01-11T10:09:00.000-03:002024-01-11T10:09:10.026-03:00Foolprof Patching<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">In the ever-expanding landscape of environments reaching hundreds if not thousands of workloads, the critical task of patching systems stands as a primordial task against vulnerabilities and security threats. While manual efforts are impractical as workloads proliferate, the significance of an automated platform becomes essential. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation/saltstack-config.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Config</a> is a powerhouse of automation that not only accelerates the fortification of your environment but also reduces drastically operational expenses.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Among its array of capabilities, one feature shines brightly: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vmware-secure-host-datasheet.pdf" target="_blank">Vulnerability Management</a>. This element allows administrators to seamlessly scan, report, and remediate vulnerabilities across the environment. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-3lFnHa0CzR9D3ZAIUfvMGW4VAwFBh2Fk0gKpN6kF50r0PKGTcvoKxyjgf9_R3y9yemfc6qP6DBSN9eqpSdv_Dy6XwiZCaY2IJWQOOM0LpGvrjEmazj-aURYbWYTSPnUQpAUS1S59SyJfwrc5zj5IhmTP4f4xR76dX6WVG2Dwa4-fP43GtUXFSOL3NGt/s1210/Config_patching.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1210" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-3lFnHa0CzR9D3ZAIUfvMGW4VAwFBh2Fk0gKpN6kF50r0PKGTcvoKxyjgf9_R3y9yemfc6qP6DBSN9eqpSdv_Dy6XwiZCaY2IJWQOOM0LpGvrjEmazj-aURYbWYTSPnUQpAUS1S59SyJfwrc5zj5IhmTP4f4xR76dX6WVG2Dwa4-fP43GtUXFSOL3NGt/w640-h416/Config_patching.png" width="640" /></a></div><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">VMware Aria Automation Config </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">still evolving toward a foolproof vulnerability management process, </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">starting with version <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">8.14.1</a> . Now, administrators can apply states both before and after patching. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PzMMJW70WUgcgiRFSVP1iEMh_1b7CnRF_vI2IEbbuitqCqg8CeupqG_wjXaHkzPTv0K_NLQvGOgsce6EDdPOQzJxAvstMxzBYETvoWHwO-JiLF1rzHJR9Z5c5U1eWm7lUcnUntOq8XmG58h-j9XIZR0ox_js9FSQCHr2mJC37mfxHs_GEZH9iRPTi1Md/s538/pre-post.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="511" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-PzMMJW70WUgcgiRFSVP1iEMh_1b7CnRF_vI2IEbbuitqCqg8CeupqG_wjXaHkzPTv0K_NLQvGOgsce6EDdPOQzJxAvstMxzBYETvoWHwO-JiLF1rzHJR9Z5c5U1eWm7lUcnUntOq8XmG58h-j9XIZR0ox_js9FSQCHr2mJC37mfxHs_GEZH9iRPTi1Md/w380-h400/pre-post.png" width="380" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The reasons might vary, but I want to give you some examples:</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Pre-Remediation:</b></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">You might want to prepare the system before it gets the patch:</span></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">stop a database or a service;</span></li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">take a backup of a configuration file;</span></li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">clean up file-system.</span></li></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Post-Remediation:</b></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">A new patch might introduce some new configuration set or revert your customized hardening :</span></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">parametrize some new settings; </span></li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">remove new users created as part of the patching process;</span></li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">re-apply your hardening;</span></li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">restart database or service.</span></li></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This addition ensures not just the application of patches but a meticulous verification process, guaranteeing a successful and secure outcome.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Happy patching</span></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-36239310052767684492024-01-02T15:20:00.001-03:002024-01-02T15:20:12.075-03:00Year in Review 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgilZtc07O6E4UQcKT9quNFh9nVsxWxXQdOCtPHrJvpFkvrify930Rcrw9SQfDPs2QfR1UQ32OJ6qfA2xCuiI4cByopgAj5mPK7oWE1UFB2RNPHyWIq3tvc5EnXEXVsSten4tndP3SDTQSYQ6XogJtHKe5_Rz8JmGxPR2YklngtzJ1Syx3r26nSl_6uVw8_/s1000/2023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgilZtc07O6E4UQcKT9quNFh9nVsxWxXQdOCtPHrJvpFkvrify930Rcrw9SQfDPs2QfR1UQ32OJ6qfA2xCuiI4cByopgAj5mPK7oWE1UFB2RNPHyWIq3tvc5EnXEXVsSten4tndP3SDTQSYQ6XogJtHKe5_Rz8JmGxPR2YklngtzJ1Syx3r26nSl_6uVw8_/w400-h400/2023.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>As the curtains draw on 2023, what a ride it has been! Engaging with numerous customers within the <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria</a> charged me with a surge of energy and creativity, translating into a total of 27 insightful posts throughout the year.<br />While the numbers tell a tale of increased content creation, it's interesting to note a shift in page views. Perhaps a tweak in analytics to filter out noise, or the ever-evolving landscape of digital content consumption — the reasons are a mystery.<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzyxnD4bP-US3CMrCzYPPekH7aCmc18bVP1OWM2RrSBhyphenhyphenJBX0Sk-QUbKSTRUsIv0DyWY3hDUi-FyzhGhewZsJ5j2DgzQdImPtKKq6WJynDON4YTeJD5sNtDasZyA3ZWAt8xGdk4iFCi3UI7WST8B1pim0HN6hU0v9TPuOZYgB-u9AZK77NgV8GoErCbyV6/s567/pageviews.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="567" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzyxnD4bP-US3CMrCzYPPekH7aCmc18bVP1OWM2RrSBhyphenhyphenJBX0Sk-QUbKSTRUsIv0DyWY3hDUi-FyzhGhewZsJ5j2DgzQdImPtKKq6WJynDON4YTeJD5sNtDasZyA3ZWAt8xGdk4iFCi3UI7WST8B1pim0HN6hU0v9TPuOZYgB-u9AZK77NgV8GoErCbyV6/w640-h376/pageviews.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The journey, however, is not measured solely in analytics. It's in those moments when a customer points to a solution derived from one of my posts, validating over 13 years of blogging. These moments fill me with pride and reinforce my commitment to share knowledge and insights.<br /><br />Now, let's delve into the highlights — the top 10 posts that resonated the most in 2023 (in red past year rank)</p><p> </p><p>#1 <a href="http://www.justait.net/2014/09/assigning-tags-with-powercli.html" target="_blank">Assigning Tags with PowerCLI</a> (not ranked last year) </p><p>#2 <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="http://www.justait.net/2013/03/vmware-converter-configuration-tips.html" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">VMware Converter configurations tips</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> (<span style="color: red;">#3</span>) <br /></span></p><p>#3 Aria on the Road - December 2023 (not ranked last year) </p><p>#4 <span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.justait.net/2022/02/tkc-stuck.html" target="_blank">Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster creation stucks</a> </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">(<span style="color: red;">#7</span>)</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: red;"> <br /></span></span></p><p>#5<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.justait.net/2016/04/vmware-nsx-and-dropped-packes-tale.html" target="_blank"> VMware NSX and the dropped packets tale</a> </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">(<span style="color: red;">#6</span>) <br /></span></p><p>#6 <a href="http://www.justait.net/2022/02/vidm-delegate.html" target="_blank">VMware Identity Manager and Delegate IP</a> (not ranked last year) </p><p>#7 <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="http://www.justait.net/2014/11/esxi-password-complexity-requirements.html" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">ESXi password complexity requirements</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> (<span style="color: red;">#4</span>)<br /></span></p><p>#8 <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="http://www.justait.net/2010/10/vmware-script-to-deleteremove-vms.html" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">VMware script to delete/remove VMs, guest</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> (<span style="color: red;">#2</span>)<br /></span></p><p>#9 <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="http://www.justait.net/2018/07/esxi-bootbank.html" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #4a6ee0; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">ESXi Host upgrade failed – 0x8b in position 513</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> (<span style="color: red;">#8</span>) <br /></span></p><p>#10 <span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.justait.net/2022/09/aria.html" target="_blank">Demystifying Aria</a> </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">(<span style="color: red;">#1</span>) </span></p><p> </p><p>- Amazing how Aria on the Road December release post made it to top 3 in such sort time;</p><p>- Seems tags is really becoming part of admin best practices, nice job guys;</p><p>- I dont believe you guys still converting physical servers in 2023, come on, please let me know in the comments if it still a thing.<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br />You might be wondering what about <a href="https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-transformation" target="_blank">Broadcom/VMware acquisition</a>, well Broadcom is dedicated to make <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-foundation.html" target="_blank">VMware Cloud Foundation</a> the best platform for running any workload (if it's not already) with VMware Aria seamlessly integrated, The journey continues, and so do the stories.<br /><br />Wishing everyone an amazing 2024 !!!</p><p><br /></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-73528417123218488082023-12-21T11:16:00.001-03:002023-12-21T11:19:22.760-03:00Site Reliability Enginnering Dashboard<p>In the vibrant atmosphere of <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore/br.html" target="_blank">VMware Explore São Paulo</a> last October, I had the pleasure of sharing insights with hundreds of engaged customers and partners. Among the sessions, one stood out, a deep dive into leveraging <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations</a> to craft customized dashboards.</p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_OzxJf5qIMg9ohKftbD2-HOV7KAqaw87_aZEOrm_wEpH52brYC8v_1AyBx-1romRDqtQ_OAcZ08KbLR5tqFQ1ZowruqD1-C9mueD4lnVoAa3ZsQ_BNRM8E0MCKqj-_bEYET5Qo0ewnZrrXFtKSKw7zvCII4a3zj3PVvzrnQHNBUEAqKF07g94C7KQCEEd/s2738/HARA0936.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1825" data-original-width="2738" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_OzxJf5qIMg9ohKftbD2-HOV7KAqaw87_aZEOrm_wEpH52brYC8v_1AyBx-1romRDqtQ_OAcZ08KbLR5tqFQ1ZowruqD1-C9mueD4lnVoAa3ZsQ_BNRM8E0MCKqj-_bEYET5Qo0ewnZrrXFtKSKw7zvCII4a3zj3PVvzrnQHNBUEAqKF07g94C7KQCEEd/w640-h426/HARA0936.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Our focus was a meticulously designed dashboard, a symphony of the most powerful widgets, offering users a high-level panorama of their environment. This visual masterpiece empowers users to swiftly visualize the health of their system, spot imminent threats, identify potential capacity concerns, and pinpoint performance bottlenecks.<p></p><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4NJmxZMZWzQcTvZqO2oC_saLAPV9VouvuqroxE0-X41kSR2R6jAgHiv-b2p0EhBXhj976dlsZ_k5VOE8EXl0CdN6opPS0J7ZbLK3db7zIw99Cz3TIbVMM_Q0jRVu5kVNaxp5MOUleaZ9k6guI14FJOH7h23QQXHIyuxa2BDEzhU6TElcpZl9PX8RifvdH/s1205/dashboard.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1205" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4NJmxZMZWzQcTvZqO2oC_saLAPV9VouvuqroxE0-X41kSR2R6jAgHiv-b2p0EhBXhj976dlsZ_k5VOE8EXl0CdN6opPS0J7ZbLK3db7zIw99Cz3TIbVMM_Q0jRVu5kVNaxp5MOUleaZ9k6guI14FJOH7h23QQXHIyuxa2BDEzhU6TElcpZl9PX8RifvdH/w640-h362/dashboard.png" width="640" /></a></div>This clean and intuitive view act as a lighthouse, allowing customers to promptly identify situations and, more crucially, dive into solutions, drill down into the intricacies, analyzing additional metrics and events to expedite root cause analysis.<br /><br />The response was phenomenal, with numerous customers expressing a keen interest in adopting this dashboard for their own environments. <br />I'm thrilled to announce <a href="https://developer.vmware.com/web/dp/samples?id=8252" target="_blank">its now available for download</a>.<br /><br />Implement it in your environment and unlock the added value it brings to your operational insights!!<p></p><p> </p><br />Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-40534643639242857912023-12-04T16:27:00.005-03:002023-12-04T16:36:04.652-03:00Aria on the Road - December 2023<p> </p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoPXlE0mUGtiCiZu9PQK2DCBrQNkuIMQ_ywDCP4v5eTGFJGPmWIz5KkdASKYSOGzuaoWi0LTroWuYAHcWjDk0EoClAtpRfDk5hIUl_7SNoEQxbAdBNLdvtQggSEA_5PicfqCBBbCq51URMN2DHmuV8pNJOGCk61n56BxknG08VJ2bcklRDb_AVxEnlq9fj/s831/Aria_December.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="831" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoPXlE0mUGtiCiZu9PQK2DCBrQNkuIMQ_ywDCP4v5eTGFJGPmWIz5KkdASKYSOGzuaoWi0LTroWuYAHcWjDk0EoClAtpRfDk5hIUl_7SNoEQxbAdBNLdvtQggSEA_5PicfqCBBbCq51URMN2DHmuV8pNJOGCk61n56BxknG08VJ2bcklRDb_AVxEnlq9fj/w640-h362/Aria_December.png" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.broadcom.com/blog/broadcom-announces-successful-acquisition-of-vmware" target="_blank">On November 2023</a> Broadcom announced the sucessfully aquisition of VMware, which will now be operated as VMware by Broadcom, while the operation is still new the commitments with customers has never been stronger, a major investment will be made during 2024 to help customers, build, operate and manage their applications, cloud native or on-prem.</p><p> </p><p>But today I wanna focus on the recently news on <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria</a>.</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> (formerly vRealize Automation)</span></p><p><b>Cloud</b>: November release available on 18/Nov/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a><br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.14.1 available on 28/Nov/2023</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Cloud Consumption Interface (CCI) enabled for all customers in US;</li><li>Plugin base for Azure resources; Machines, Network, disks, storage accounts, SQL databases;</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2r3eXBDiiE8JYzUSODQAc1DEvIc0Zi8Ap3JC5XR80dYDOrTILAtfBCz64Udase9TDRe9zLO1Rby7YmZ1RAogXoTblYIsN1GBXioq4iC-MydV58as35oYIQh6MYikQU-HPpvGu0JQvil-F_HGUMW8sJ4Pm5AQ-9wM5PUblqlEDKkPclOhaGE7rHJUYDuS/s471/idem_azure.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="233" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu2r3eXBDiiE8JYzUSODQAc1DEvIc0Zi8Ap3JC5XR80dYDOrTILAtfBCz64Udase9TDRe9zLO1Rby7YmZ1RAogXoTblYIsN1GBXioq4iC-MydV58as35oYIQh6MYikQU-HPpvGu0JQvil-F_HGUMW8sJ4Pm5AQ-9wM5PUblqlEDKkPclOhaGE7rHJUYDuS/s320/idem_azure.png" width="158" /></a></div><br /> <ul><li> </li><li> </li><li> </li><li> </li><li> </li></ul></li></ul><p> <br /> <br /> </p><p><br /> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /> <br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Creation of catalog itens directly from VMs in vSphere +;</li><li>Support of OVF properties when using template from Content Library;</li><li>Support for on-prem GitLab Enterprise;</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT9mFB2U9E5rmMXLSgNG5KDN0wLwBZdwD3V_PgJL9hqG4MJdL_VL8RwnnxxdvKCx7xtLfEnTXPTCJX2Xbw2Ffn728jZbAeKqAOV5lPzS9qhxYoTJnxw_0v0XBkqsRey_NJxYivANKr5D2KTiLQ8icT8UFG-OznH6qd6gPIbpZX__p5flOC2Lx53dTQDz6v/s640/new_nothot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="640" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT9mFB2U9E5rmMXLSgNG5KDN0wLwBZdwD3V_PgJL9hqG4MJdL_VL8RwnnxxdvKCx7xtLfEnTXPTCJX2Xbw2Ffn728jZbAeKqAOV5lPzS9qhxYoTJnxw_0v0XBkqsRey_NJxYivANKr5D2KTiLQ8icT8UFG-OznH6qd6gPIbpZX__p5flOC2Lx53dTQDz6v/w400-h184/new_nothot.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <br /><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New Infoblox plugin (version 1.5.1)<br /></li></ul><p> </p><p><b>Cloud</b>: October release available on 14/Oct/2023 <br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.14 available on 19/Oct/2023</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Day 2 actions for Deployments;</li><li>IPv6 support for external IPAMs;</li><li>Quick bulk onboard discovered VMs;</li><li>New event Topics for approval;</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNfZc4GyYeT9BGanbzyJ9uvBmcdAu-n2dInSszpeYTTzFc7M-RiFTS-Am0bqhc-N-o8uB2OKwK-_oEqaIkbQklb0-v3gW_sKSXIL6slqF0wNxUV65iQAgjfFjX2CBGHqZE_HnXjPV25rTpGsURWtgrNNe_DMe3QiHkxrT-fJBPkMJm0Hk3ODiFduKvW4SS/s361/approval.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="338" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNfZc4GyYeT9BGanbzyJ9uvBmcdAu-n2dInSszpeYTTzFc7M-RiFTS-Am0bqhc-N-o8uB2OKwK-_oEqaIkbQklb0-v3gW_sKSXIL6slqF0wNxUV65iQAgjfFjX2CBGHqZE_HnXjPV25rTpGsURWtgrNNe_DMe3QiHkxrT-fJBPkMJm0Hk3ODiFduKvW4SS/s320/approval.png" width="300" /></a></div> <ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Updated Extensibility Actions runtime versions;</li><ul><li>AWS</li><ul><li>Python 3.7 -> 3.10</li><li>Node.js 14 -> 18</li></ul><li>Azure</li><ul><li>Python 3.8 -> 3.10</li><li>Node.js 11 -> 18</li></ul><li> On-prem</li><ul><li>Python 3.7 -> 3.10</li><li>Node.js 14 -> 18</li><li> Powershell 7.17 - > 7.2.7<br /></li></ul></ul></ul><p> </p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/07/aa-july-release.html" target="_blank"></a><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator</a></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Cloud</b>: November release available on 18/Nov/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a><br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.14.1 available on 28/Nov/2023</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">It's a maintenance release;</li><ul><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">workflow stuck in waiting state;</li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Git repository performance;</li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">vSphere upgrade replication plugin;<br /> </li></ul></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation/saltstack-config.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Config</a> (formerly SaltStack Config)</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Cloud</b>: November release available on 18/Nov/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a><br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.14.1 available on 28/Nov/2023</p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b> </b></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Vulnerability pre and post remediation actions;<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b> <br /></b></span></li></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b> </b></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Cloud</b>: October release available on 14/Oct/2023 <br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.14 available on 19/Oct/2023</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Usability enhancements;</li><ul><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">View notifications on user actions;</li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Refresh icons fo all applicable pages;</li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Copy icon for job identification (JID);</li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">more descriptive job satus executions;<br /></li></ul></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /> </span><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations</a> (formerly vRealize Operations)</span><br /></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b>On-premises</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: version 8.14.1 available on 23/Nov/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/8.14.1/rn/vmware-aria-operations-8141-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/95468" target="_blank">It's a maintenance release</a>;</li><ul><li>What-if add host scenation display no servers;</li><li>Cloud proxy upgrade failures;</li><li>Improve data Collection throughput;</li><li>K8s cost issues; <br /></li></ul></ul></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b>Cloud</b>: October release available on 18/Oct/2023 <span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">- <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/services/rn/vmware-aria-operations-saas-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span><br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.14 available on 19/Oct/2023</div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"> </div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New vSAN Oversubscription Capacity and Ratio has been addedd;</li><li>Green Score for physical datacenters;</li><li>Ability to simulate alert notification;</li><li>Enhanced credential management, identifying owners;</li><li>Configure Telegraf content at scale;</li><li>8.14 is the latest version supporting remote collectors, upgrade to cloud proxy;</li><li>Appliance have been upgraded to Photon OS 4.0;<br /> </li></ul></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><p></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-logs.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations for Logs</a> (formerly vRealize Log Insight)</span></span></p><p><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.14.1 available on 23/Nov/2023<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Logs/8.14.1/rn/vmware-aria-operations-for-logs-8141-release-notes/index.html">release notes</a></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>It's a maintenance release;</li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Fixed issues with upgrade process;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">User is locked after a single incorrect login; <br /></span></li></ul></ul><p></p><p><b>Cloud</b>: October release available on 25/Oct/2023 <span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">- <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vRealize-Log-Insight-Cloud/services/rn/vmware-vrealize-log-insight-cloud-release-notes/index.html">release notes</a></span><br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.14 available on 19/Oct/2023</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Federations between on-prem and SaaS implementation, allowing query on-prem data from SaaS without incurring charges;</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt-BGlv9A4-RKlr1mp3h4FJ7Oy4-sFpZpjQJ_W6B7sAp8hqKBcdwjMOIjNx0wi03xft7wpES3PcxAYaILlfdZ3pbfE2tCQzlIUeyziIuaPJ8InszVBS-Ezm56SNBzmrcOQR36RXg0qTb9nv8vM4WMtm7Dxi7PP0cheIZRjkz1iNPVr0h44gOgmnpiqBlHx/s936/Federation.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="936" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt-BGlv9A4-RKlr1mp3h4FJ7Oy4-sFpZpjQJ_W6B7sAp8hqKBcdwjMOIjNx0wi03xft7wpES3PcxAYaILlfdZ3pbfE2tCQzlIUeyziIuaPJ8InszVBS-Ezm56SNBzmrcOQR36RXg0qTb9nv8vM4WMtm7Dxi7PP0cheIZRjkz1iNPVr0h44gOgmnpiqBlHx/w640-h316/Federation.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /></div><div> </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <ul style="text-align: left;"><li>in-product links for training materials;</li><li>New content pack and fixes;</li><ul><li>Openshift;</li><li>Tanzu Kubernetes Grid;</li><li>vSAN;</li></ul><li>Update trusted certificate via UI;</li><li>Support for NSX Advanced Load Balancer;</li><li>platform has been updated to Photon OS 4.0</li><li>platform has been updated to Java untime 11;<br /> </li></ul><p>If you missed the news from <a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/07/aria-august2023.html" target="_blank">June-July it's all posted in here</a>:</p><p>Nice reading !!!</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br /></p></div><br /><br /><br /></div>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-20645754600991991822023-11-24T10:10:00.001-03:002023-11-24T10:10:19.373-03:00Resize behaviour refined<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> continues to exemplify a commitment to improvement, whether through colossal improvements or those fine-tuned enhancements. In the latest stride of innovation, VMware has released its November update for VMware Aria Automation SaaS, 8.14.1 for on-prem is coming soon. This release brings on an <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">array of new features and fixes</a>, each a testament to the ongoing commitment to enhancing user experience.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Among the notable updates is a nuanced refinement to a feature we recently delved into, the art of resizing vSphere machines. For a quick refresher, you can <a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/06/resize-behavior.html" target="_blank">revisit the details here</a>.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Now, let's delve into the unpretentious yet significant change that adds a layer of finesse to your resizing endeavors.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">When Hot-Add is NOT Enabled:</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">In scenarios where Hot-Add is not enabled, a thoughtful warning now graces the user interface, informing that, in order to perform the resize, the VM will necessitate a temporary shutdown. This proactively mitigates unintended outages and ensures a smooth resizing process.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWb1Gt_qktxHg42rvTI0DjjAz55N25OohTDWiixkaMuvXz43K89ljljMVE-7kIbZXDElnot9KYgWq2k3ZacI_Fcq1E-MboewJ4u8f72x-wuDvcx11vFNu77YvhmSPIXRadKYS2qvl_28SuNCbgJukOuP0ChJ3ZRmtr6vIvCNa6CPmDmpS2eFgnV0lp4ZKM/s815/new_nothot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="815" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWb1Gt_qktxHg42rvTI0DjjAz55N25OohTDWiixkaMuvXz43K89ljljMVE-7kIbZXDElnot9KYgWq2k3ZacI_Fcq1E-MboewJ4u8f72x-wuDvcx11vFNu77YvhmSPIXRadKYS2qvl_28SuNCbgJukOuP0ChJ3ZRmtr6vIvCNa6CPmDmpS2eFgnV0lp4ZKM/w640-h294/new_nothot.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="background: transparent; 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color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></strong></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></strong></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></span></strong></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><strong style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">When Hot-Add is Enabled:</span></strong></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">For those leveraging the advantages of Hot-Add, an important adjustment awaits. The option to automatically select the VM reboot is no longer a default setting. This change is strategically implemented to prevent unintentional disruptions to services running on these VMs. It places the control firmly in the hands of users, promoting awareness about the expected behavior during the resizing process.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggZ0sirpE1VLuJU9IvyPHXuXPdj3_s-_7cP9jaEMx8vf5RzS2pN4thpWPSbdSmVo_Z3StzfPUCWVX7hyphenhyphen5PHmqCNU8RNjRK7pf8TKWSkKixgihFqQQVGyAi7Fdj3NW0fh4-RhBvkIvjdDWaJeLLUUIE5UsMTCOevnRdDwlyCQTuKuS6vabaIPOm0AtrQJ_E/s815/New_hot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="815" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggZ0sirpE1VLuJU9IvyPHXuXPdj3_s-_7cP9jaEMx8vf5RzS2pN4thpWPSbdSmVo_Z3StzfPUCWVX7hyphenhyphen5PHmqCNU8RNjRK7pf8TKWSkKixgihFqQQVGyAi7Fdj3NW0fh4-RhBvkIvjdDWaJeLLUUIE5UsMTCOevnRdDwlyCQTuKuS6vabaIPOm0AtrQJ_E/w640-h294/New_hot.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">The brilliance of the software industry lies in its perpetual evolution. Sometimes, it's the grand leaps with new features that grab our attention, and at other times, it's the subtle tweaks, like the ones we explore here, that simplify our lives. </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Happy Automation !!!</span></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-17375541002858276242023-11-10T11:45:00.002-03:002023-11-10T11:45:31.328-03:00The Parking Lot Tale<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ98BhKeectE20FryGP2gnQuqlAIYg7be10xO4L585XPXLv6RR7zDjOPXafH4YOHAxIzSMmseQexIHtMdZkFMBhURPFcYsmFxRhtt2_zH39CgG-AoszVaj8uSnyS3eRf-BAgNZqdycODJYVmJbePITNZCabfpwuvk_f5lceffRT8YItIrEzFRoMzO8EF2h/s1440/erepublic.brightspotcdn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1440" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ98BhKeectE20FryGP2gnQuqlAIYg7be10xO4L585XPXLv6RR7zDjOPXafH4YOHAxIzSMmseQexIHtMdZkFMBhURPFcYsmFxRhtt2_zH39CgG-AoszVaj8uSnyS3eRf-BAgNZqdycODJYVmJbePITNZCabfpwuvk_f5lceffRT8YItIrEzFRoMzO8EF2h/w640-h312/erepublic.brightspotcdn.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>In a world where every company, irrespective of size, is meticulously managing their expenses, FinOps emerges as a vital component in strategies determining where resources should be allocated and monitored it's lifecycle. </p><p> </p><p>I often encounter a conceptual stumbling block, confusion between Cost and Price during my interactions with customers. Allow me to shed light on this riddle with the tale of a parking lot owner. </p><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Picture an entrepreneur investing in a parking lot.</div><div style="text-align: left;">They procure the land, construct the parking facility, delineate parking spaces, create landscaping, install cameras and monitoring systems, hire personnel, invest in software for customer utilization tracking, secure insurance, and the list goes on. </div><div style="text-align: left;">All of these elements constitute the <b>COST</b>. It's the fundamental expenditure required to keep the business running, irrespective of whether the parking lot is empty or bustling with cars. Essentially, the cost remains constant. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfodXuXwSZab3sGbxGP1Xn7bRCW_20wjfW9nRtdWIXA2F7He61RwiorLXWt_vLxDX1GTmpg44sHmWoPQexNuBPRfAtfumq2pEfAwR2d8GbbABh6Fo7Y_KG7ICIA7hP2uLKnPVEkNyFsO_980e9YSWTMfL5IqtyXGXq9IjPXX6PM-kupnSuQyfxpJtAD3p8/s2816/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.23.42.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="2816" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfodXuXwSZab3sGbxGP1Xn7bRCW_20wjfW9nRtdWIXA2F7He61RwiorLXWt_vLxDX1GTmpg44sHmWoPQexNuBPRfAtfumq2pEfAwR2d8GbbABh6Fo7Y_KG7ICIA7hP2uLKnPVEkNyFsO_980e9YSWTMfL5IqtyXGXq9IjPXX6PM-kupnSuQyfxpJtAD3p8/w640-h293/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.23.42.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Drawing parallels to a data center, the scenario isn't vastly different. You need the infrastructure, be it through ownership or renting, a fleet of servers, a network fabric, external storage (unless you're fortunate enough to have an HCI system), software for running applications, an IT team to manage operations and so on; </div><div style="text-align: left;">Such as the parking lot owner, regardless of whether your data center is overflowing with applications or not, the cost remains fixed. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">In <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations</a>, these costs are derived from the Cost Drivers, the aspects contributing to the expense of business operations.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQA7rDRbjCAvMAvKT0gs1kcb-BfAoYiPB7RN55PkJMbIUafR-P4OU1FmJbcohPxsO8Sx_1bEy4LXF-kJQRfZdK8AY7aSIJg-ykCwuBIPe5XD-QyplBVuIF3XwgIDIsCH_yOwdPjfstKaXJStg1kCqX21ia-rSaYJdNkz6Sy1sRC_z11p22dKp6K6Q49fJ/s1491/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.27.07.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="827" data-original-width="1491" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJQA7rDRbjCAvMAvKT0gs1kcb-BfAoYiPB7RN55PkJMbIUafR-P4OU1FmJbcohPxsO8Sx_1bEy4LXF-kJQRfZdK8AY7aSIJg-ykCwuBIPe5XD-QyplBVuIF3XwgIDIsCH_yOwdPjfstKaXJStg1kCqX21ia-rSaYJdNkz6Sy1sRC_z11p22dKp6K6Q49fJ/w640-h354/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.27.07.png" width="640" /></a></div> </div><div style="text-align: left;">But let's circle back to our parking lot story. </div><div style="text-align: left;">As a customer, I don't concern myself with the intricacies of running the parking lot, nor should I. My primary interest lies in understanding the <b>PRICE</b>, how much it costs to park my car there. And just like in the realm of FinOps, this price is dynamic, varying between companies based on their unique business strategies and pricing policies. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Consider the complexities involved in crafting a pricing policy: </div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>How soon do you want a return on investments (RTO)? </li><li>Should you charge hourly, daily, or monthly? </li><li>Should larger vehicles incur higher fees? </li><li>What profit margin are you aiming for? </li><li>Factor in competition; a higher rate might drive customers away, while a lower one might jeopardize your financial viability. </li></ul></div><p> </p><p>In the universe of <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations</a>, customers share the same sentiment. They're not concerned with the complex costs of your impressive servers; they want to know how much it "costs" to run their applications, the <b>PRICE</b>. Operations simplifies this with the Pricing Cards.<br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6ZS439G-ypBNbxeizMUdBoOGmXnfdprMvR_eJGuQ1cAAyH3Se6zvWtzGtoc_yHd7hBNQOW8QMSVsC0ABYeljrzVgdoEjM_TmdDqJNzU5vVvjVpguZVUBrDASSUNaZPTr5kr7zfxyJWbiXK5JuHbhGuwhSqUMz181kKFYBj9SZZSvOZ8wr7foEu0t6AQq/s638/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.30.34.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="638" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6ZS439G-ypBNbxeizMUdBoOGmXnfdprMvR_eJGuQ1cAAyH3Se6zvWtzGtoc_yHd7hBNQOW8QMSVsC0ABYeljrzVgdoEjM_TmdDqJNzU5vVvjVpguZVUBrDASSUNaZPTr5kr7zfxyJWbiXK5JuHbhGuwhSqUMz181kKFYBj9SZZSvOZ8wr7foEu0t6AQq/w640-h318/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.30.34.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Here, you can structure your pricing based on the cost itself, allowing you to add fees or discounts on top of the actual cost.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhafdd5Jierg3HObQO4jxjsJlAZ_EQGglEhNQ118W5FEhcsfD_b4Xg3qZHrhoZvAOHZJq8aBsuQcurfTez74XQq7_eiI6MCIiW3fHA2fBKHKlSbGcRhq8jPr5-3L3W7bh30k3dyfaI0Bc-fiBKOzMuyWI9pbHlLc5fb-RuIJy0yehnFEc_tgoMB7NBB-oAu/s617/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.32.52.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="617" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhafdd5Jierg3HObQO4jxjsJlAZ_EQGglEhNQ118W5FEhcsfD_b4Xg3qZHrhoZvAOHZJq8aBsuQcurfTez74XQq7_eiI6MCIiW3fHA2fBKHKlSbGcRhq8jPr5-3L3W7bh30k3dyfaI0Bc-fiBKOzMuyWI9pbHlLc5fb-RuIJy0yehnFEc_tgoMB7NBB-oAu/w640-h309/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.32.52.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div>Alternatively, you can employ a straightforward equation, adding values to individual resources like vCPU, memory, and disk.<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwroQLFpGTCI-bh-vPGSi6nYH-yJ6BiLr2azrMNdpPhEzOmtmK0djGlf51fHmHZlgCK2S2iG0s4_3sj-2Bhwp9vXMtfZK2CqjAMppM30LYH-KrUAJ5FjW-aTnaZMBjH7i2BMm5oy2PV8CpqzEE6I2WYnIjhhltgMC5-19a0dWyKmR0DbtL4AnujdDzEvd1/s872/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.33.12.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="872" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwroQLFpGTCI-bh-vPGSi6nYH-yJ6BiLr2azrMNdpPhEzOmtmK0djGlf51fHmHZlgCK2S2iG0s4_3sj-2Bhwp9vXMtfZK2CqjAMppM30LYH-KrUAJ5FjW-aTnaZMBjH7i2BMm5oy2PV8CpqzEE6I2WYnIjhhltgMC5-19a0dWyKmR0DbtL4AnujdDzEvd1/w640-h218/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-11-10%20a%CC%80s%2011.33.12.png" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><p>So, in essence, this simple tale aims to demystify the enigma of Cost vs. Price. <br />Dive into cost management today and navigate the intricate waters of FinOps with clarity.</p><p> </p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-36785636043927742162023-10-02T16:32:00.003-03:002023-10-02T16:32:34.204-03:00Aria on the Road - October 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYXegkC5rHiXALaAD3zv_QXYZ4sJU9CokA9n45cgSYwtsVozmAiclst9cpxzIcxtcJsDnw69lgCSNOeuZS47zoOtL-ZYhaQQfQhsyjLsbuoVrbEMxk5Vfg5SAVDIbHQczFrvRuY3oO0gmHIkDGij42W8RIYV_UpGNgEfcESNGZygvNKxBGu1b-px63ep9Z/s1674/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-10-02%20a%CC%80s%2015.11.41.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1674" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYXegkC5rHiXALaAD3zv_QXYZ4sJU9CokA9n45cgSYwtsVozmAiclst9cpxzIcxtcJsDnw69lgCSNOeuZS47zoOtL-ZYhaQQfQhsyjLsbuoVrbEMxk5Vfg5SAVDIbHQczFrvRuY3oO0gmHIkDGij42W8RIYV_UpGNgEfcESNGZygvNKxBGu1b-px63ep9Z/w640-h386/Captura%20de%20Tela%202023-10-02%20a%CC%80s%2015.11.41.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Once again, we embark on an exciting journey through the ever-evolving realm of <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria</a>. In the recent <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore.html" target="_blank">VMware Explore</a> event, VMware unvelead a strategic shift aimed at turbocharging customer's modern application endeavors. At the heart of this transformation lies the birth of a new unit known as <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2023-tanzu" target="_blank">Tanzu Intelligence</a>. As part of this initiative, several products have found their new home under this umbrella, including Tanzu Hub (formerly Aria Hub), Tanzu CloudHealth (formerly Aria Cost), and Tanzu Guardrails (formerly Aria Guardrails). As a result, these solutions will not be part of this newsletter anymore.<br /><br />Stay tuned as I bring you the freshest updates from the VMware Aria landscape.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> (formerly vRealize Automation)</span></p><p><b>Cloud</b>: August release available on 29/Aug/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a><br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.13.1 available on 07/Sep/2023</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Custom naming for plugin based resources, just like the classic resources;</li><li>Several new day-2 actions for plugin based resources, Instances Power On/Off, LB and RDS delete, Storage bucket delete, amoong others<br /></li><li>New dedicated cloud account for connected vSphere+; vCenters from the same Org can be more convenient onboarded withou the need of cloud proxies; <br /></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnGAOpKvgKVOuOLNyNBNpZMOZMmb3mlYog28tGeVWUc2vHEJS3edyQ1b6q3pEU_Y7xuzIOc7hQDpYdXP47GW07UcEFcln25Wwld7c27zPMhOwm_n86NuLp03ZbnzyGyq2csFHegOOCV6ttl3uYZNphrVhJ9MtoT3aLpFml5QpDVnCbhOYCUumjy7ybE7n/s697/connected_vcenter.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="697" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsnGAOpKvgKVOuOLNyNBNpZMOZMmb3mlYog28tGeVWUc2vHEJS3edyQ1b6q3pEU_Y7xuzIOc7hQDpYdXP47GW07UcEFcln25Wwld7c27zPMhOwm_n86NuLp03ZbnzyGyq2csFHegOOCV6ttl3uYZNphrVhJ9MtoT3aLpFml5QpDVnCbhOYCUumjy7ybE7n/s320/connected_vcenter.png" width="320" /></a></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Catalog in Service Broker became more friendly, option for card and viewer list are available;<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2MkZ964V4OXbt2zyq9UI1SJsIFskpiMiy8b9N309QMxdmr7NQFINslgWzi_Uim1n6sjnT9RxWq6xuCRqjnY-j0CLxuwas9DktWmJiDkR6ScrjFgn4ks52QndTQioLBzF-qBYAUgl3Os5CA_fgNvPny7tK5UbozUKCJPjKnxHOri7dTKlKFgktxbKetfDB/s1366/catalog.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="217" data-original-width="1366" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2MkZ964V4OXbt2zyq9UI1SJsIFskpiMiy8b9N309QMxdmr7NQFINslgWzi_Uim1n6sjnT9RxWq6xuCRqjnY-j0CLxuwas9DktWmJiDkR6ScrjFgn4ks52QndTQioLBzF-qBYAUgl3Os5CA_fgNvPny7tK5UbozUKCJPjKnxHOri7dTKlKFgktxbKetfDB/w640-h102/catalog.png" width="640" /></a></div></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Support for Salt Onedir packages;</li><li>Terraform support for versions greater than 1.5.5 will no longer be supported due to <a href="https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license" target="_blank">Hashicorp license changes</a>;</li></ul><p> </p><p><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.13 available on 03/Aug/2023</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Support for external GCP TCP Load Balancer;</li><li>Now administrators have a view of which objects are bilable from the home screen;</li></ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivuOUITFoMK4fKHCsEytwTKiYoREG6xbxAuBbeDEYjwUGFjZizcpHMegkUvQxh0XyslPIgn6Duj4Lpwl39HJNXFK1MralTLffxTQNlUJtu6Tbvo41qRMLclgxNZidjQISiWp31XeUpmWg3Y5ujwU6Xi3pqP6_jL46yyoodmYhgzpyIEpKDA_3qzn_OCTfK/s989/Bilable.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="989" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivuOUITFoMK4fKHCsEytwTKiYoREG6xbxAuBbeDEYjwUGFjZizcpHMegkUvQxh0XyslPIgn6Duj4Lpwl39HJNXFK1MralTLffxTQNlUJtu6Tbvo41qRMLclgxNZidjQISiWp31XeUpmWg3Y5ujwU6Xi3pqP6_jL46yyoodmYhgzpyIEpKDA_3qzn_OCTfK/w640-h484/Bilable.png" width="640" /></a><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New Day-2 action allow to change Azure disks tier;</li><li>New Day-2 action to unregister VM from inventory without deleting it; <br /></li><li>On-boarded vSphere Machines can be rebuilded from Automation;</li><li>There's now an option to ignore powered off VM from quota consideration;</li><li><a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/07/custom-form-inherit.html" target="_blank">Root level blueprint custom form</a> along with ability to import custom from from another catalog item;</li></ul><p> </p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/07/aa-july-release.html" target="_blank"></a><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator</a></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>On-Premises</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: 8.13.1 release available on 07/Sep/2023 </span>- <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Defined number of vAPI metamodels by a property, preventing excessive memory consumption;<br /> </li></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation/saltstack-config.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Config</a> (formerly SaltStack Config)</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>On-Premises</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: 8.13.1 release available on 07/Sep/2023 </span>- <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; 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color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-logs.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations for Logs</a> (formerly vRealize Log Insight)</span><br /><b>Cloud</b>: August release available on 23/Aug/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vRealize-Log-Insight-Cloud/services/rn/vmware-vrealize-log-insight-cloud-release-notes/index.html">release notes</a></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> Pause recurring alerts; pausing some alerts while you are trooubleshooting it might come in handy;<br /></li></ul><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaf5Pw5IyWpk23rsvPnOH5a17XCuePeJVa0BvYm4UTqcqTpmoZh-bxl6U9taU4J_Qy0QFKfhKaIZARyytssH5FvsF4ImcOtG2STMANGKL5k3z_rE5VjRZmHGtU-THz5rTK-a0QzfiGCd8RVwuvW2Xj23CDfBjxO4KDk0-1FWvluY25XUY6Tqb_7qe5Y3gB/s3142/Logs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="3142" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaf5Pw5IyWpk23rsvPnOH5a17XCuePeJVa0BvYm4UTqcqTpmoZh-bxl6U9taU4J_Qy0QFKfhKaIZARyytssH5FvsF4ImcOtG2STMANGKL5k3z_rE5VjRZmHGtU-THz5rTK-a0QzfiGCd8RVwuvW2Xj23CDfBjxO4KDk0-1FWvluY25XUY6Tqb_7qe5Y3gB/w640-h312/Logs.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p>If you missed the news from <a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/07/aria-august2023.html" target="_blank">June-July it's all posted in here</a>:</p><p>Nice reading !!!<br /></p></div><p></p><p><br /></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-77438119767764779152023-08-18T14:52:00.001-03:002023-08-18T14:52:16.478-03:00Orchestrated VM Annotations for VI Admins<p>In the realm of automation, the quest for enhanced governance takes center stage, specially as the digital landscape continues its exponential growth, overseeing workloads becomes an imperative chore and <a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/08/slack-notification.html" target="_blank">my recent immersion</a> has led me to unveil yet another extensibility action that amplifies the prowess of VI administrators. <br /><br />Today, I'm excited to share a <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator </a>workflow that significantly bolsters governance, offering the ability to quickly identify creator and creation timestamp of each VM within vCenter itself. This elegantly simple solution entails utilizing vCenter's annotations/notes, seamlessly appended to VMs upon provisioning.<br /><br />At the heart of this automation lies a key Event Subscription watching for the "<b>Compute Post Provisioning</b>" event, a pivotal trigger that sets the stage for the magic to unfold. Upon this event, the orchestration gracefully invokes the "<b>SetNotesAutomation</b>" workflow. It's worth noting that precision in our filtering mechanism ensuring that this automation exclusively fires for the vCenter endpoint.<br />Deployments destined for Native Public Clouds remain untouched by this process.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwpFl68pZF83qdco7frFTsxsh0Lzwko2naK2p5WE-IlDCcen6CAU0TdQ9yqYoN6oeZKfNUcTIKGXZ9L7LGnuo4UP1eeMFS7balEw1fAMsIqboaysxY29AvEam_lm4-MQNONj1N8VmWIYzjoQjpwuYTw2m020i0aYK7Ma2Mi18DfvONLBSYqRgBGmNb74Fv/s1468/Automation_subscription.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="1468" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwpFl68pZF83qdco7frFTsxsh0Lzwko2naK2p5WE-IlDCcen6CAU0TdQ9yqYoN6oeZKfNUcTIKGXZ9L7LGnuo4UP1eeMFS7balEw1fAMsIqboaysxY29AvEam_lm4-MQNONj1N8VmWIYzjoQjpwuYTw2m020i0aYK7Ma2Mi18DfvONLBSYqRgBGmNb74Fv/w640-h522/Automation_subscription.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br />With this in place, the outcome is remarkable: every vSphere virtual machine brought to life through Aria Automation becomes adorned with automatically populated annotations, ready to be accessed at any moment.</p><p></p><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgckpnn_Woafy7mjJEfg5VDKWttLvB5FjHuMloKW0SUs3D9NOqK9qEt_cbYrKmNzKwLqCvt2yWDcqYnsiRZSMnw1a3DCrdFFD0enEIazIPxumAAbQ5qp-lOUA_CO1ujYTgswQBt_WoNsJ3xomilol-e6PJfYrWsvGo_1fr9GxBF12vrDiaQfMQM3YU0fXNG/s885/vm_annotation.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="885" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgckpnn_Woafy7mjJEfg5VDKWttLvB5FjHuMloKW0SUs3D9NOqK9qEt_cbYrKmNzKwLqCvt2yWDcqYnsiRZSMnw1a3DCrdFFD0enEIazIPxumAAbQ5qp-lOUA_CO1ujYTgswQBt_WoNsJ3xomilol-e6PJfYrWsvGo_1fr9GxBF12vrDiaQfMQM3YU0fXNG/w640-h408/vm_annotation.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br />But that's not all. To truly embrace the spirit of ease and efficiency, I've included the "SetNotes" workflow in my Orchestrator package. </p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuokGgKc7xGV8ClA0BH2b9FvuclXi9YnUuUomg6idVOJFpOJ2uaW1Qgt-FRbRF0CIsycRo03kUysvx3JJuthAJoUZMNwgRIuxD7y-xN2ID3bMgl3NYzZr6ggxb8dP4bvWyYEDjK5ZWVBVMNNYqPdPZn7_pdCWevyqUlkQsiBBCaObZ9rHxjBaAp5ixyQc1/s361/day2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="145" data-original-width="361" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuokGgKc7xGV8ClA0BH2b9FvuclXi9YnUuUomg6idVOJFpOJ2uaW1Qgt-FRbRF0CIsycRo03kUysvx3JJuthAJoUZMNwgRIuxD7y-xN2ID3bMgl3NYzZr6ggxb8dP4bvWyYEDjK5ZWVBVMNNYqPdPZn7_pdCWevyqUlkQsiBBCaObZ9rHxjBaAp5ixyQc1/w400-h161/day2.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>This nifty addition becomes your Day-2 action, seamlessly integrated as a Resource Action. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvLUIF6HRWPdO5DP4NgGOn_2PhjdJRvE_Cfuit1Gt4YpO4UmIkZTfhTK1ZoYO6tFESNM3lFLZtemm3PQISPJtSxlcoxD_yGGYYSkyoEOZvRuwNWCRYEHDuKYT27wPb5x4_N3_4dqnxa_cv3ywHWnZAtvAXxFt6GLpooXurrhMNeWK45e0JJ2jxCIKlxJ2X/s1696/Resource-action.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="1696" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvLUIF6HRWPdO5DP4NgGOn_2PhjdJRvE_Cfuit1Gt4YpO4UmIkZTfhTK1ZoYO6tFESNM3lFLZtemm3PQISPJtSxlcoxD_yGGYYSkyoEOZvRuwNWCRYEHDuKYT27wPb5x4_N3_4dqnxa_cv3ywHWnZAtvAXxFt6GLpooXurrhMNeWK45e0JJ2jxCIKlxJ2X/w640-h178/Resource-action.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Now, within the realms of Aria Automation, you wield the power to effortlessly add or update VM notes—a process that embodies the essence of harmonious automation.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr1t2QqGGT55m4lVZWa-7A87chkO0ej_CqdvgaonK3n2rJ5I1HmnWIk0puJaHUP3uSssXluSvaHhC1lN9cf6zfFLsG0uWUHVqqEFjX0Ml_HQlFtKKJwybM8NZasCwbwVEGbb3wkZq8fyCZXGQDl-2bFIo62u5AfUrmEklRdadpRbMU8JwTO5-nNic-q6SJ/s1116/update_annotation.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="1116" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr1t2QqGGT55m4lVZWa-7A87chkO0ej_CqdvgaonK3n2rJ5I1HmnWIk0puJaHUP3uSssXluSvaHhC1lN9cf6zfFLsG0uWUHVqqEFjX0Ml_HQlFtKKJwybM8NZasCwbwVEGbb3wkZq8fyCZXGQDl-2bFIo62u5AfUrmEklRdadpRbMU8JwTO5-nNic-q6SJ/w400-h325/update_annotation.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZSOVDiZ-RRDhUDvC8e93HAz1m-VwH2JfHaazebfloJ0Uce0pIIun97LHFQ83aAVq9wlQ5_xtBDUzNFsa-RB2sS5wFxhmCVh5LbAjYeShcFFj1FbsaEZ-WoiIms1rDACjqD2EL3jtQFSNavYP_-qDJ844EoLIBQHV9zZKO-JK1g0JwQWiAixTlvnCXxOQ/s912/annotation_input.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="912" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcZSOVDiZ-RRDhUDvC8e93HAz1m-VwH2JfHaazebfloJ0Uce0pIIun97LHFQ83aAVq9wlQ5_xtBDUzNFsa-RB2sS5wFxhmCVh5LbAjYeShcFFj1FbsaEZ-WoiIms1rDACjqD2EL3jtQFSNavYP_-qDJ844EoLIBQHV9zZKO-JK1g0JwQWiAixTlvnCXxOQ/w400-h241/annotation_input.png" width="400" /></a></div><p><br />So, fellow automation enthusiasts, you can <a href="https://developer.vmware.com/samples/8201/orchestrated-vm-annotations-for-vi-admins?h=vRO%20Package" target="_blank">download this package from VMware Code</a> and start your own automation venture.<br /><br />Happy automation !!!</p><br />Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-23259256819939460502023-08-10T14:22:00.002-03:002023-08-10T14:28:18.620-03:00Slack Notification<p><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> revolutionizes the way we approach automation, delivering tailored offers and services, enhancing productivity, and the flexibility to navigate through a swiftly transforming landscape.</p><p><br />A standout feature within this evolution is <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/Using-Automation-Assembler/GUID-55847415-5920-47E7-86BD-20CD9EB6BA6B.html" target="_blank">Action-Based Extensibility</a> (abx), a transformative element that allows seamlessly integrating with external tools. This enriches Aria Automation's intrinsic capabilities, empowering you to craft workflows meticulously align with your unique business processes. <br />The result? A streamlined operation that cuts out repetitive manual tasks, conducting in a new era of automation efficiency.<br /><br />Today, I want to spotlight how Aria Automation elevates visibility and awareness. Specifically, exploring the avenue of messaging platforms. Leveraging Slack messages to a designated channel upon deployment completion informing and communicating in real-time.<br /><br />The prerequisite is simple: setting up a Slack incoming webhook tailored to your desired channel. <a href="https://api.slack.com/messaging/webhooks" target="_blank">Here's a step-by-step guide</a> to accomplishing this:<br /><br />With this foundation in place, let's return to the core of automation: Assembler. Here, we create a notification Action to achieve our objective. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxzfAmGUdVLkpVHoUzD6R3yHLDoQBamdj1g5QIXMGvV3_DZZ6WllAxFljzt21hHeu0soC9-R7qQe4Pv5J3Z18h-3YNTqn6brq13jscD30yivW3i2VahyJElxkEKzmOkIdU4_xPcuMa8KlTYRnZWGnB742AzSJ0Kb53fx1-UzvqEadPqum9Pedt5vYO23A/s550/abx_Action.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="550" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxzfAmGUdVLkpVHoUzD6R3yHLDoQBamdj1g5QIXMGvV3_DZZ6WllAxFljzt21hHeu0soC9-R7qQe4Pv5J3Z18h-3YNTqn6brq13jscD30yivW3i2VahyJElxkEKzmOkIdU4_xPcuMa8KlTYRnZWGnB742AzSJ0Kb53fx1-UzvqEadPqum9Pedt5vYO23A/w640-h350/abx_Action.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>The following code snippet is Python-based, though Aria Automation flexibly supports also node.js and PowerShell, allowing you to select the language that resonates with your expertise.</p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoMk0ojxFB75WQWt7y72qz7Ue6Ylr9lcQWHAnWUe2CN1NCGatVKfbfSmo3DfhH_C4dEr7p7CI633Riut0SvvqkmK0jJXXjWyxBiaGW9mlZ-Z3Wfl0Kz-QMrRfPQizThsa-tiOd53BbHvHjtdlqlgpjftXyJMlnkynd_6AU6rAOBVj6TjS4vVPtuS4Fd6an/s1571/abx_slack.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="1571" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoMk0ojxFB75WQWt7y72qz7Ue6Ylr9lcQWHAnWUe2CN1NCGatVKfbfSmo3DfhH_C4dEr7p7CI633Riut0SvvqkmK0jJXXjWyxBiaGW9mlZ-Z3Wfl0Kz-QMrRfPQizThsa-tiOd53BbHvHjtdlqlgpjftXyJMlnkynd_6AU6rAOBVj6TjS4vVPtuS4Fd6an/w640-h172/abx_slack.png" width="640" /></a></p><br /><p></p><p>The only customization needed pertains to your Slack channel's incoming webhook URL. I'm leveraging a secret for enhanced security, but feel free to hardcode it or use another abx input. Remember, apply the appropriate adjustments.<br /><br />With your meticulously designed action primed and ready, the next step in this automation journey is creating a subscription that elegantly listens for the desired event, ready to ignite the notification process. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQbQGgqiV5D_piH7EWEPrw26NcOvYlYqXtV4-7mPuHM3E6M8RPQQFbVnr3QiIT4mkgegmUKuCbLcZ8sW-1bR40wyxsaM3YzC2LJv0t1eXg6CkiTetdGf7QAfLW2DLEI5JWbOfLHoObbUTmF9NZerwcLRdVpHID-7zOLyDl6nkD0mqX3CucNvTvnsrpm_q/s1004/abx_subscriptions.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1004" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWQbQGgqiV5D_piH7EWEPrw26NcOvYlYqXtV4-7mPuHM3E6M8RPQQFbVnr3QiIT4mkgegmUKuCbLcZ8sW-1bR40wyxsaM3YzC2LJv0t1eXg6CkiTetdGf7QAfLW2DLEI5JWbOfLHoObbUTmF9NZerwcLRdVpHID-7zOLyDl6nkD0mqX3CucNvTvnsrpm_q/w640-h508/abx_subscriptions.png" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>From now one we can be notified when a deployment is created or deleted !!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hmbPpOpvhdkXTpwhs_yCkFYWx_yXmIFOA7uzjUl2WAo3ueT5Dc2BtkErTIXK6dIu4boyZKaGjZS3lFWhvsrmsqw3aWOqkJG-2rSVCIVo8aBSR9ZzpzwwWN2OXj4CpopktDpEPGETxq428YPn0nrvm6KBkEvSvcheVV8zEbzePRSaHrlRGP30H0GooVUB/s1092/slack_notification.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="1092" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5hmbPpOpvhdkXTpwhs_yCkFYWx_yXmIFOA7uzjUl2WAo3ueT5Dc2BtkErTIXK6dIu4boyZKaGjZS3lFWhvsrmsqw3aWOqkJG-2rSVCIVo8aBSR9ZzpzwwWN2OXj4CpopktDpEPGETxq428YPn0nrvm6KBkEvSvcheVV8zEbzePRSaHrlRGP30H0GooVUB/w640-h162/slack_notification.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />This package is available for your appreciation at <a href="https://developer.vmware.com/samples/8195/notifyslack-abx.zip?h=slack" target="_blank">VMware Code</a>. Furthermore, for the curious
collaborators and code enthusiasts, the repository awaits your
exploration on my <a href="https://github.com/emeirell/abx/tree/main/NotifySlack" target="_blank">Git repository</a></p><p> </p><p>Happy notification !!!<br /></p><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-63211318396442363972023-08-01T09:17:00.000-03:002023-08-01T09:17:58.677-03:00Aria on the road - August 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9rVH_dN-hPnkkz6gcMIIWRHamOsAWojkWN9GAwpgsgwf2Q7-XtdkauOHUJXKBmTcnetJsXJOOg81amZDX9f-YWUCs_7LLw3LCLBL0yAhejajr0panbGKjbK4dv0adP5Js-8sse-Z4uk4-1DxbeEZvNlEzRuQvHI7SBZMj_ibaU8PNtiNDQm24gQHnYpHA/s700/aria-road-Aug.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="700" height="536" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9rVH_dN-hPnkkz6gcMIIWRHamOsAWojkWN9GAwpgsgwf2Q7-XtdkauOHUJXKBmTcnetJsXJOOg81amZDX9f-YWUCs_7LLw3LCLBL0yAhejajr0panbGKjbK4dv0adP5Js-8sse-Z4uk4-1DxbeEZvNlEzRuQvHI7SBZMj_ibaU8PNtiNDQm24gQHnYpHA/w640-h536/aria-road-Aug.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>In the fast-paced world of technology, VMware stays on top of game releasing more and more game-changing features, allowing customers to be more agile, secure and in control of it's multi-cloud operations. As we dive into the latest two months of developments bellow, keep in mind it's not an exhaustive list, you can find the release notes links to check all the details in each release.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> (formerly vRealize Automation)</span><br /><b>Cloud</b>: July release available on 22/Jul/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a><br /><br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Support for external GCP TCP Load Balancer;</li><li>Now administrators have a view of which objects are bilable from the home screen;</li></ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivuOUITFoMK4fKHCsEytwTKiYoREG6xbxAuBbeDEYjwUGFjZizcpHMegkUvQxh0XyslPIgn6Duj4Lpwl39HJNXFK1MralTLffxTQNlUJtu6Tbvo41qRMLclgxNZidjQISiWp31XeUpmWg3Y5ujwU6Xi3pqP6_jL46yyoodmYhgzpyIEpKDA_3qzn_OCTfK/s989/Bilable.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="989" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivuOUITFoMK4fKHCsEytwTKiYoREG6xbxAuBbeDEYjwUGFjZizcpHMegkUvQxh0XyslPIgn6Duj4Lpwl39HJNXFK1MralTLffxTQNlUJtu6Tbvo41qRMLclgxNZidjQISiWp31XeUpmWg3Y5ujwU6Xi3pqP6_jL46yyoodmYhgzpyIEpKDA_3qzn_OCTfK/w640-h484/Bilable.png" width="640" /></a><br /> <ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New Day-2 action allow to change Azure disks tier;</li><li>New Day-2 action to unregister VM from inventory without deleting it; <br /></li><li>On-boarded vSphere Machines can be rebuilded from Automation;</li><li>There's now an option to ignore powered off VM from quota consideration;</li><li><a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/07/custom-form-inherit.html" target="_blank">Root level blueprint custom form</a> along with ability to import custom from from another catalog item;<br /></li></ul><p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/07/aa-july-release.html" target="_blank">More details:</a><br /> </p><p><b>Cloud</b>: June release available on 24/Jun/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a><br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.12.2 available on 29/Jun/2023 </p><p><br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>It has been added Continuous management of protected VMs to the platform; when VMs protected by Site Recovery Manager fails over to the recovery site, Automation, will understand it's behavior and still able to manage it;</li></ul><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6462Ufm3MnCWeBz91frW8l6VLWdEBmqhRttwSq4C4Npks8GeCDIhPh_qj-upHBVMIBWjSNeHgJYWX3gGu7AcQkkU143CnZ1ZG8RArcvFRvjHdDJZctlHFo1HTECIxMvCCFAz3rzuIN-86huWAb5qdnbAwWY_JFvUgbn6zNwkooG7nVfQz01L1G_Un-h9L/s685/cloud_mobility.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="679" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6462Ufm3MnCWeBz91frW8l6VLWdEBmqhRttwSq4C4Npks8GeCDIhPh_qj-upHBVMIBWjSNeHgJYWX3gGu7AcQkkU143CnZ1ZG8RArcvFRvjHdDJZctlHFo1HTECIxMvCCFAz3rzuIN-86huWAb5qdnbAwWY_JFvUgbn6zNwkooG7nVfQz01L1G_Un-h9L/w634-h640/cloud_mobility.png" width="634" /></a> <br /></p><p> </p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> Plugin based support for Google Cloud Provider (GCP) for resources;</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><ul><li>GPC Virtual MAchines, including GPU support;</li><li>Shielded VM instance;</li><li>Disk Snapshots (creation/deletion/update/restoring);</li><li>Network resources; provision networks, subnets connected, VPC and more;</li><li>Support for all GCP disk types (standar/extreme/ssd/balanced);</li><li>Storage Buckets;</li></ul><li>Installation of salt minions agent uses <a href="https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3005/topics/releases/3005.html#new-packages-available" target="_blank">Onedir packages now</a>;</li><li>More visibility into EC2 instances, like public IPs and list of NICs and volumes properties; </li></ul><p> </p><p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/04/aa-april-release.html" target="_blank">More details:</a></p><p><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation/saltstack-config.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Config</a> (formerly SaltStack Config)</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Cloud</b>: July release available on 22/Jul/2023</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">CIS benchmark for RHEL9;</span></li><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Import of Qualys vulnerability scans via API;<br /></span></li></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.12.2 available on 29/Jun/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes:</a></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">It's a maintenance release;<br /></span></li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator</a></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Cloud</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: July release available on 22/Jul/2023 </span>- <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">New command line (CLI) has been delivered to allow the <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/Using-Automation-Assembler/GUID-DF992A11-E06F-428B-8C8E-CFCE6CB99E8C.html" target="_blank">configuration using vracli vro</a>;<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOBu5ZotIa72LRsxlV_HDDppjpMM1Y2lUNqI4q0M-Mijg8HfnDoPqQ_SykMkeDHmfqaqgjxMbwv-33ue4euH4HIQ53Ka4WX92qEr_l999Re8eT-8a_ffO15VhhvAxAuAvGDRWR2IFeED0UDRythj81l-rb7EQC3e1-xmUUFFt9ywxekn5xtAbCIpsoZjGC/s797/vro-cli.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="797" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOBu5ZotIa72LRsxlV_HDDppjpMM1Y2lUNqI4q0M-Mijg8HfnDoPqQ_SykMkeDHmfqaqgjxMbwv-33ue4euH4HIQ53Ka4WX92qEr_l999Re8eT-8a_ffO15VhhvAxAuAvGDRWR2IFeED0UDRythj81l-rb7EQC3e1-xmUUFFt9ywxekn5xtAbCIpsoZjGC/w400-h299/vro-cli.png" width="400" /></a></div> <span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b> </b></span></li></ul><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.12.2 available on 29/Jun/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">it's a maintenance release<br /></span></li></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b></b></span><p><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-hub-powered-by-aria-graph.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Hub</a></span></span></p><b>Cloud</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: June release </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">- <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Hub/SaaS/rn/vmware-aria-hub-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">AWS Bulk onbard; upon adding a top level account, Hub will automatically discover the account hierarchy and topology;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Elevated credentials model; Aria Hub is moving to the principle of least privilege, meaning you can give the services exactly the permission it needs, in case it needs a higher privilege to execute some automation or configuration it can leverage an elevated credential to do the task;<br /></span></li></ul><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://via.vmw.com/FreeTier" target="_blank">Sign up for the free tier here;</a></span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-guardrails.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Guardrails</a></span></span></p><b>Cloud</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: June release </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">- <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Hub/SaaS/rn/vmware-aria-hub-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Bulk onboard for Azure subscriptions;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Ability to edit AWS account properties; <br /></span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Availability of modes for AWS;<br /></span></li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Monitoring mode; Guardrails will monitor the desire state and alert about drifts;<br /></span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Eforcement mode; Guardrails will enforce the desire state fixing the drifts found;<br /></span></li></ul></ul><br /><div><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://via.vmw.com/FreeTier" target="_blank">Sign up for the free tier here;</a></span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-for-secure-clouds.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds</a> </span></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(formerly CloudHealth Secure State)</span></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Cloud</b>: from June to July releases - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/CloudHealth-Secure-State/What's-New/rn/vmware-aria-automation-for-secure-clouds-whats-new-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> Support for FedRamp Compliance Framework, based on NIST 800-53 (rev 5)</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Cloud Entitlement for AWS; allows for identification of which resource and access the user has;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2022/11/vmware-aria-automation-for-secure-clouds-integration-with-amazon-security-lake.html" target="_blank">Integration with Amazon Security Lake</a>, forwarding findings based on the standard OCFS;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Unified tab in Aria Hub, called governance;</span></li></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlETctpSC03AfKQAr2_AHd-7aIahTOK0dWtI5zI2K0KRA25qpFXGQVF_lm4FMDBlELf5Fku9Oygg0uizrBNXXtjvwu-hFZExg8A-qfzyYX3EEar5FwnJNwoBYE4kU31h8bll-zSBPXK_fEV38xg9GZv1TSAqOXalvuVEMfpVdeKwcrN0Jr3t2WlfqR5Xs/s366/Governance.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="191" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIlETctpSC03AfKQAr2_AHd-7aIahTOK0dWtI5zI2K0KRA25qpFXGQVF_lm4FMDBlELf5Fku9Oygg0uizrBNXXtjvwu-hFZExg8A-qfzyYX3EEar5FwnJNwoBYE4kU31h8bll-zSBPXK_fEV38xg9GZv1TSAqOXalvuVEMfpVdeKwcrN0Jr3t2WlfqR5Xs/s320/Governance.png" width="167" /></a></div><br /></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Support for Amazon DocumentDB and FSX inventory to manage potential risks;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">New Compliance frameworks;</span></li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">CIS Azure Kubernetes Service, version 1.3.0</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, version 1.3.0</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">CIS Google Kubernetes Engine, version 14.0</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">CIS Kubernetes v1.24</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">CIS Kubernetes v1.25</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">CIS Azure Foundation, version 2.0.0<br /><br /></span></li></ul></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations</a> (formerly vRealize Operations)</span><br /></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b>Cloud</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: July release available on 03/Jul/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/services/rn/vmware-aria-operations-saas-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Support for Azure Government subscritpions;</li></ul><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVCCIEd9XL11qXWZleQRzl-D7rci042cUiIozhbSOCV5xrqwP83QU4XExKEpGpu87iOjLjhpUYSFdcCeUSSy_UCVqpJgj09TncmAcqweJvSf21x5NIfu2ytT8NMJj81m4i4rmKjHneiXBAswlp0-ilGBo7Gu1VUSij0Dy11d0x-6nHaCQyWqI_suCskAG/s2048/AzureGov.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="995" data-original-width="2048" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVCCIEd9XL11qXWZleQRzl-D7rci042cUiIozhbSOCV5xrqwP83QU4XExKEpGpu87iOjLjhpUYSFdcCeUSSy_UCVqpJgj09TncmAcqweJvSf21x5NIfu2ytT8NMJj81m4i4rmKjHneiXBAswlp0-ilGBo7Gu1VUSij0Dy11d0x-6nHaCQyWqI_suCskAG/w640-h310/AzureGov.png" width="640" /></a> <br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Enhanced Cloud Proxy command lines for better troubleshoting;</li><li>Notification heartbeat; you can receive continuous alerts for as long the alert remains active;</li></ul></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkqYSkbcS9Ilwb0yl3kPR8-b1PqHAWNLFs9j-dx7dkOu2OOa8AJWBnqTKjKMJieka8m0zKKo3ecyuYTCogVK7vyS7Es8HrGZmNhAtr316wCeJyqEjf3XhSIbUSGqjyB0OjBhw7fUgAFns6gUtUm5z-7tZMOU5ChYT6DtdCvJgeC1ISHJ_wjUSU2MVF_km/s2048/heartbeat.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="2048" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzkqYSkbcS9Ilwb0yl3kPR8-b1PqHAWNLFs9j-dx7dkOu2OOa8AJWBnqTKjKMJieka8m0zKKo3ecyuYTCogVK7vyS7Es8HrGZmNhAtr316wCeJyqEjf3XhSIbUSGqjyB0OjBhw7fUgAFns6gUtUm5z-7tZMOU5ChYT6DtdCvJgeC1ISHJ_wjUSU2MVF_km/w640-h410/heartbeat.png" width="640" /></a> <br /></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Metric search in Troubleshooting Workbench;</li><li>New metric for Application Monitoring (telegraf) to identify if the agent is sending data or not, allowing you to act upon agent failures;</li><li>Updated Compliance Packs;</li><ul><li>CIS_VMWARE_ESXi_6.7_Benchmark_v1.3.0;</li><li>CIS_VMWARE_ESXi_7.0_Benchmark_v1.2.0;</li><li>NSX-T 3.2 Security Configuration Guide;</li><li>NSX-T 3.1 Security Configuration Guide;</li><li>NSX-T 3.0 Security Configuration Guide; <br /></li></ul></ul></div><br /><div><p><a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/services/rn/vmware-aria-operations-saas-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank"></a></p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/07/whats-new-in-vmware-aria-operations.html" target="_blank">More details:</a><br /><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-applications.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations for Applications</a> (formerly Tanzu Observability)</span><br /><b>Cloud</b>: from June to July releases - <a href="https://docs.wavefront.com/wavefront_release_notes.html">release notes</a><br /><br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Aria Operations for Applications is now a service under VMware Cloud Services platform; Existing subscriptions will be migrated to the portal over time;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">New Wavefront Proxy version 13 to support sending data to CSP through access token;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Google Cloud Run Metrics is now available to be monitored;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Ingestion of histogram metrics from Google Cloud Platform grouping functions;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Amazon Web Services Usage metrics is now available;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Updated instuctions to set up integrations with K8s collector for:</span></li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Kafka;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Redis;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">etcd;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Cassandra;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">NVIDIA;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">VMware GemFire;</span> <br /></li></ul></ul></div><div><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-logs.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations for Logs</a> (formerly vRealize Log Insight)</span><br /><b>Cloud</b>: June release available on 21/Jun/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vRealize-Log-Insight-Cloud/services/rn/vmware-vrealize-log-insight-cloud-release-notes/index.html">release notes</a></span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Scheduled reports; allowing you to receive dashboards and reports on your desired interval;</span></li></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8VrsY7gt3poPJZUHfkCJqlW7exyOO9VaFxB4v2fLx3EGKFlHHC4jQlaWYZNQ2mR5kky9UD3mqDi-LoL_a04n1iSMzbkKbH7SvRRpJQiok08COmeTj67x211ksCnk-uCfi6hjgg2CDbjkEx9A0VJzL0NehhVi5aokqI34nwNyRiTqPwYV9lCfB6zN6_5_d/s681/scheduled_reports.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="595" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8VrsY7gt3poPJZUHfkCJqlW7exyOO9VaFxB4v2fLx3EGKFlHHC4jQlaWYZNQ2mR5kky9UD3mqDi-LoL_a04n1iSMzbkKbH7SvRRpJQiok08COmeTj67x211ksCnk-uCfi6hjgg2CDbjkEx9A0VJzL0NehhVi5aokqI34nwNyRiTqPwYV9lCfB6zN6_5_d/w350-h400/scheduled_reports.png" width="350" /></a></div> <br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Federated Log, initial release of this capability that allows you to query your on-prem data of Aria Logs from the SaaS version;</span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijS5yLRe-HTrGw0xqBzLwDX23qXpVo23nqMuDj_yD6f67aTV1H620StP-cH2fFdt6lyl_rUmwskwbLFr-wGOR384PGyfHKpLj3KhdiZFxK2_vQugh9u9pPOtIXNvp3PVijNIWQeV0CaGnkyTy74Gzrnlyk78f3cJnQ3dXDTZjaed3OjYctqvCcwrS3aOLq/s1289/on-prem_logs.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1289" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijS5yLRe-HTrGw0xqBzLwDX23qXpVo23nqMuDj_yD6f67aTV1H620StP-cH2fFdt6lyl_rUmwskwbLFr-wGOR384PGyfHKpLj3KhdiZFxK2_vQugh9u9pPOtIXNvp3PVijNIWQeV0CaGnkyTy74Gzrnlyk78f3cJnQ3dXDTZjaed3OjYctqvCcwrS3aOLq/w640-h330/on-prem_logs.png" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijS5yLRe-HTrGw0xqBzLwDX23qXpVo23nqMuDj_yD6f67aTV1H620StP-cH2fFdt6lyl_rUmwskwbLFr-wGOR384PGyfHKpLj3KhdiZFxK2_vQugh9u9pPOtIXNvp3PVijNIWQeV0CaGnkyTy74Gzrnlyk78f3cJnQ3dXDTZjaed3OjYctqvCcwrS3aOLq/s1289/on-prem_logs.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/06/whats-new-in-vmware-aria-operations-for-logs-saas-june-2023-release.html" target="_blank"> More details:</a><br /></div><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cloudhealth.vmware.com/" target="_blank">VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth</a> (formerly CloudHealth)</span><br /><b>Cloud</b>: from June to July releases</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Kubernetes cost history for FlexOrgs is now general available. can be use for chargeback and showback;<br /></span></li><li>Kubernetes usage reports for FlexOrgs is now general available;</li><li>Update to Anomaly Detection; subscriptions can be setup to receive e-mail notification;</li><li>Display multi-cloud cost History Report in currencies other than USD;</li><li>New AWS support region, ap-south1 (Mumbai)</li><li>AWS Redshift rightsize (public beta), it looks for CPU and recommend others node types;</li><li>AWS DynamoDB rightsize (public beta), allow cost savings suggesting better provisioning of tables;</li><li>GPC Perspective support in FlexReports (public beta), enhancing usability for customers;</li><li>New Azure Assets; Machine Learning Compute Resources, workspaces and more;<br /></li></ul><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span><br /></p><p>If you want to revisit <a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/06/aria-june2023.html" target="_blank">what happened in April-May</a> time frame, check my previous post. </p><p> </p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-58182962687125675972023-07-26T15:05:00.002-03:002023-07-26T15:05:28.787-03:00Dynamic Custom Forms Inheritance<p>Since its <a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/06/aria-june2023.html" target="_blank">release in April 2023</a>, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> has been a game-changer, including for on-prem implementations with version 8.12. Gone are the days of being confined to a single custom form per catalog item. </p><p>Now, you have the power to <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/04/vmware-aria-automation-april-8-12-0-custom-forms-version-history.html" target="_blank">create multiple custom form versions</a>! This newfound flexibility and creativity allow you to cater precisely to your customers' diverse needs.</p><p> </p><p>For years, custom forms have been a cornerstone in addressing complex template requirements, providing seamless inputs and data validation to enhance the user experience and eliminate errors. </p><p> </p><p>However, there's a minor catch in this exciting new model: Custom Forms are now linked to their respective Catalog Item version. When you release a new version to the catalog, it won't automatically inherit the previous custom forms. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEfe-S7OXZdLDWoMLK6nOANPKgYT3MA4IbpkcGXGflGw6dQDNN6bq3ZeBoDMSdVw__bHzEbG2XwdQa1W4DD394BlJcrMO7MJc5NKf5HAziSVYH87OEZG2URIrdWvjnS88PYqSmWt_gHATY-zp8nmA4zee1xGFV_k-ySCS793YZsfwVsWXvvDVY5lch04v6/s857/custom_forms.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="857" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEfe-S7OXZdLDWoMLK6nOANPKgYT3MA4IbpkcGXGflGw6dQDNN6bq3ZeBoDMSdVw__bHzEbG2XwdQa1W4DD394BlJcrMO7MJc5NKf5HAziSVYH87OEZG2URIrdWvjnS88PYqSmWt_gHATY-zp8nmA4zee1xGFV_k-ySCS793YZsfwVsWXvvDVY5lch04v6/w640-h248/custom_forms.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> But don't fret, VMware recently made some adjuts to streamline the process. Now, with just a few clicks, you can make magic happen.
Simply click on the ellipsis close to your recently released version and select "New Form From".<br /> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjduAOu3Dxbz-fCOjQp2x5iR2VavLkcblCXGbNHUpHgIWy2HJAoA-PBJNN5I9cf1obq92cITOCgT8rgI50FW9LnFluJ33PcjCZH4Yj4-LAREb-7VhVvibfCZ-DHQFbopBqBHmnUSzkWp1zfefGMpn0NRo1bsQhxgAcy0BMiXW5fnSb5YgTlEcd7A2leKpij/s863/%20new_form.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="863" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjduAOu3Dxbz-fCOjQp2x5iR2VavLkcblCXGbNHUpHgIWy2HJAoA-PBJNN5I9cf1obq92cITOCgT8rgI50FW9LnFluJ33PcjCZH4Yj4-LAREb-7VhVvibfCZ-DHQFbopBqBHmnUSzkWp1zfefGMpn0NRo1bsQhxgAcy0BMiXW5fnSb5YgTlEcd7A2leKpij/w640-h144/%20new_form.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>VoilĂ ! You can now choose a form from another catalog item version.
Your new catalog item will seamlessly inherit all the visuals and logic of the custom form you previously created. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3n95HUUa4b_YNmcwhQ1H_GUroddqyEO64WQ2ulOW_LzQZZtyMtyag9pNCIhsRSsvsfi8bvyivYSUdt6f_gsPSl3aBYjxqRSe3nxBkwESqaQxUrnHM18GB-ryqXjjzLJlyWPBv8W-Vl3efMim7t3_ciaxzSVgur45VscB3AoBvH1oebJCvhrMzLR5QrT5w/s679/from_from.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="679" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3n95HUUa4b_YNmcwhQ1H_GUroddqyEO64WQ2ulOW_LzQZZtyMtyag9pNCIhsRSsvsfi8bvyivYSUdt6f_gsPSl3aBYjxqRSe3nxBkwESqaQxUrnHM18GB-ryqXjjzLJlyWPBv8W-Vl3efMim7t3_ciaxzSVgur45VscB3AoBvH1oebJCvhrMzLR5QrT5w/w640-h334/from_from.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>This clever enhancement saves you valuable hours of work, one form at a time. </p><p> </p><p>And the good news doesn't end there! The traditional method of Exporting/Importing custom forms is still available, providing you with additional flexibility and ease of use.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58z84SI4-m0kFW4VZzRGbpiJHfHqOLFPY1zJN-IQVBwRNN0hDQaBTxfTQM9N6x8F_FsrbR2ghFAun2GZhdkAE-1zExu50g2wb8g0c7Z-Ws-WHGYTpb8fJaO6A0M_4xk4lp0GJgd-qvfEx6-poLAkd7ancL_M0EKfeWO7pFNJbQlW0hd7YOUfLYyztKcIP/s673/export_form.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="673" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58z84SI4-m0kFW4VZzRGbpiJHfHqOLFPY1zJN-IQVBwRNN0hDQaBTxfTQM9N6x8F_FsrbR2ghFAun2GZhdkAE-1zExu50g2wb8g0c7Z-Ws-WHGYTpb8fJaO6A0M_4xk4lp0GJgd-qvfEx6-poLAkd7ancL_M0EKfeWO7pFNJbQlW0hd7YOUfLYyztKcIP/w400-h134/export_form.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_92qeTHbEbFmWGphPSvY-_ogahyemvUFXef83Ej0oQ_RE26mqjROTdeTvuehH66UnhbWESseiAFjwa6C1eupiqhXe-rX_ZVyO_ZfePI5_0JyL_2vYuelw3hylzTsaXiHlU5O1lSG-IeXhfDFw-RGWB2nnlKY1s7O7SJT_m79ECkZAZm5Gb3ZzgtYLyw6/s677/import_form.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="237" data-original-width="677" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_92qeTHbEbFmWGphPSvY-_ogahyemvUFXef83Ej0oQ_RE26mqjROTdeTvuehH66UnhbWESseiAFjwa6C1eupiqhXe-rX_ZVyO_ZfePI5_0JyL_2vYuelw3hylzTsaXiHlU5O1lSG-IeXhfDFw-RGWB2nnlKY1s7O7SJT_m79ECkZAZm5Gb3ZzgtYLyw6/w400-h140/import_form.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <br /></p><p> </p><p>Happy Automation !!!<br /></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-75257741169877474082023-07-12T11:47:00.002-03:002023-07-12T11:47:43.039-03:00Allocations Helpers for GCP<p><a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/07/gcp-plugin.html" target="_blank">In a previous post</a>, we discussed how <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> make use of GCP resources using a new modern approach of<a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/Using-Automation-Assembler/GUID-7CB792B4-43AA-4DA0-AF64-E9EEB7EAC9CC.html" target="_blank"> Framework plugin-based</a>. Now, let's delve deeper into the enhancements made to the cloud template exploring the role of Allocation Helpers in this process.</p><p> </p><p> Let's take my previous cloud template as a starting point.
There's a slight change to what we have been using so far when designing blueprints, the Plugin-based framework itself does not include any logic to resolve constraints or selection of resources.
That's why we also release a new type of resource, <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/SaaS/Using-Automation-Assembler/GUID-0E047796-4258-49BD-BF5F-6E64F4F11BB0.html" target="_blank">Allocation Helpers</a>, which helps streamline the process of selecting and reserving the most suitable infrastructure. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXKX4LRtCFL1Omr74NkxaJEb4Byx7s4MjlY_qbupzWRv14AMPEuahscKlxYY4_ljCfFEcG3uJ_5CMqLvfe8ZTCM7LsfYpic_eKd6kf9ZPlIWB2b-sOgyw-ER7mKSvWelUPxiZvoVqIb1oyF8da5HFF1qmrUKjqD214HHTdmy2VtTYiFQh_oLhKjgOhr3e/s321/%20allocation_helpers.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="241" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyXKX4LRtCFL1Omr74NkxaJEb4Byx7s4MjlY_qbupzWRv14AMPEuahscKlxYY4_ljCfFEcG3uJ_5CMqLvfe8ZTCM7LsfYpic_eKd6kf9ZPlIWB2b-sOgyw-ER7mKSvWelUPxiZvoVqIb1oyF8da5HFF1qmrUKjqD214HHTdmy2VtTYiFQh_oLhKjgOhr3e/w300-h400/%20allocation_helpers.png" width="300" /></a></div><p>There are a few allocations helpers, which one responsible for the selection of the right resource type; </p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>Compute</b>: for accounts, regions and zones; </li><li><b>Image</b>: for image mapping and imageID; </li><li><b>Flavor</b>: for flavor mapping and instance type; </li><li><b>Network</b>: used to find the network profile; </li><li><b>Storage</b>: used to find the storage profile; </li></ul><p> </p><p>Let's see how they work, starting with the Image Helper, after dragging
it to the canvas, it only requires a image property, I could hardcoded
the image but as I want to give my users the flexibility to choose the OS, I created an input that maps to my image mapping and
use it as a reference. Sound familiar, right ?</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3x9RIXIFEySUb2yn3pp8EDiE94S1VDq0RNizFTZgNO5K_4j1zrTFHvjt7-f3_aHzUSLC1W606NQuDwIDCrLj_qSEyW035DbSHMrpuciQMJQz3sV0p7_42M7GXJXgstwdSeM_sM3gHmsee-nib2CE7DQACA2bwipFTlTjzezg9vTZZKszm4jQ-EKI-OmI/s283/image_helper.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="283" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3x9RIXIFEySUb2yn3pp8EDiE94S1VDq0RNizFTZgNO5K_4j1zrTFHvjt7-f3_aHzUSLC1W606NQuDwIDCrLj_qSEyW035DbSHMrpuciQMJQz3sV0p7_42M7GXJXgstwdSeM_sM3gHmsee-nib2CE7DQACA2bwipFTlTjzezg9vTZZKszm4jQ-EKI-OmI/w400-h226/image_helper.png" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p>I just did the same for Flavor Helper.<br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4atkBAUlV8HZ07Tn7pGGejK7_JsTvG3_0Gps-Qxp9_K9U_NC1AsvOkxTMx4_SyLvFXTONRb6B1X8-M7hv4fnKlA1O1SeKPJxHE0rzUtM7Aw3BmIA4_lsLdotm75rsMPmQH5voFlAi0lZJVHYZ_pSeH0aD4LXUfXBCuMKGVAOXuYSHzP3AjBEA_e-H3Vf/s343/Allocation_Flavor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="343" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi4atkBAUlV8HZ07Tn7pGGejK7_JsTvG3_0Gps-Qxp9_K9U_NC1AsvOkxTMx4_SyLvFXTONRb6B1X8-M7hv4fnKlA1O1SeKPJxHE0rzUtM7Aw3BmIA4_lsLdotm75rsMPmQH5voFlAi0lZJVHYZ_pSeH0aD4LXUfXBCuMKGVAOXuYSHzP3AjBEA_e-H3Vf/w400-h256/Allocation_Flavor.png" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p>If you click on properties, you can see which property might be used to select the resource you need, but more important which values are returned from the allocation (the ones with a tick), so you can just copy the property to use later on the template, in this case we will use selectedInstanceTypeName. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqp68B9-kwgm6awqAG3cmu69_3Grk8kPi-xixXD7zRCdR8MrD4KgqM09xPDmdgQp7O3UEeed8Ou7N4u0T0hKuOorvCqSvLbVyoJWSM1EMvPD9LIVa_tQIfUzusL41nD5fWm3XpTNrpaVI0_EeDr1pvANnP-HIUtGYyjpPGIgInpdvLzzZu7nodXKbQ0_Rz/s461/helpers_Properties.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="461" height="329" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqp68B9-kwgm6awqAG3cmu69_3Grk8kPi-xixXD7zRCdR8MrD4KgqM09xPDmdgQp7O3UEeed8Ou7N4u0T0hKuOorvCqSvLbVyoJWSM1EMvPD9LIVa_tQIfUzusL41nD5fWm3XpTNrpaVI0_EeDr1pvANnP-HIUtGYyjpPGIgInpdvLzzZu7nodXKbQ0_Rz/w400-h329/helpers_Properties.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>For Compute allocation, I used the constraint we all know and love to select the desired destination, account and Zone. This time I made it hardcoded, could I use an input to give the user ability to select the destination? Absolutely yes !!!</p><p></p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOcALRsydqXQAiRcV-jmRMhlEzF2AYghWaS25EOtILGFBuzK5sDmIIeH6yiR6rQpfM7xQjd1E3NH_FWzJy_stzfmwx2A0e1Tacg3NBPSoQsz5Bdo3YPkUVIlXGBGnCKE7aSdEyicqkUeEBIP18HDIDbttYYw-UfHQmEDv1nbTUN1w43CnEfc7hNrCo7VWw/s188/Compute_helper.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="72" data-original-width="188" height="153" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOcALRsydqXQAiRcV-jmRMhlEzF2AYghWaS25EOtILGFBuzK5sDmIIeH6yiR6rQpfM7xQjd1E3NH_FWzJy_stzfmwx2A0e1Tacg3NBPSoQsz5Bdo3YPkUVIlXGBGnCKE7aSdEyicqkUeEBIP18HDIDbttYYw-UfHQmEDv1nbTUN1w43CnEfc7hNrCo7VWw/w400-h153/Compute_helper.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> Now that we computed all destinations and resource selections we need, it's time to use them on GCP and disk resources, just copy the output from the allocation and paste it into the resource input property. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjvpIze2I-_ypQmGpmHwAdHIVljk83u9pDWDVW72OYtKN_uDU2c62ql_kZNA2BfVjb-YEdZtY7EfLwR6IFcuAn5rlzB2J0Ha8gMbL1IA0bngQ0c2XFScRVrOfDJKQbbXv3KoPffR2CG5RnKe1TgS_jUfMeZG_6dSfEGyAx8IQM5-704LtKZqiOJajmq9UW/s1001/%20allocation_properties.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="1001" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjvpIze2I-_ypQmGpmHwAdHIVljk83u9pDWDVW72OYtKN_uDU2c62ql_kZNA2BfVjb-YEdZtY7EfLwR6IFcuAn5rlzB2J0Ha8gMbL1IA0bngQ0c2XFScRVrOfDJKQbbXv3KoPffR2CG5RnKe1TgS_jUfMeZG_6dSfEGyAx8IQM5-704LtKZqiOJajmq9UW/w640-h302/%20allocation_properties.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>That's it. Every resource will need a slightly different property or value, but now you are capable to work we allocation helpers and build the solution you need.</p><p>Here's my full template in case we want to reuse it. </p><p> </p><p> </p>
<pre class="pre-code-block">
formatVersion: 1
inputs:
i-flavor:
type: string
title: Select your desired t-shit size
default: Small
enum:
- Small
- Medium
i-image:
type: string
title: Select your desired OS Disk Image
default: CentOS
enum:
- CentOS
- Ubuntu
resources:
Allocations_Image_1:
type: Allocations.Image
properties:
image: ${input.i-image}
Allocations_Flavor_1:
type: Allocations.Flavor
properties:
flavor: ${input.i-flavor}
Allocations_Compute_1:
type: Allocations.Compute
properties:
constraints:
- tag: env:homolog
Idem_GCP_COMPUTE_DISK_1:
type: Idem.GCP.COMPUTE.DISK
properties:
account: ${resource.Allocations_Compute_1.selectedCloudAccount.name}
zone: ${resource.Allocations_Compute_1.selectedPlacementCompute.name}
name: ${to_lower(env.deploymentName)}-boot-disk
size_gb: 20
source_image: ${resource.Allocations_Image_1.selectedImageId}
Idem_GCP_COMPUTE_INSTANCE_1:
type: Idem.GCP.COMPUTE.INSTANCE
properties:
name: ${to_lower(env.deploymentName)}
account: ${resource.Allocations_Compute_1.selectedCloudAccount.name}
zone: ${resource.Allocations_Compute_1.selectedPlacementCompute.name}
machine_type: ${'zones/' + resource.Allocations_Compute_1.selectedPlacementCompute.name + '/machineTypes/' + resource.Allocations_Flavor_1.selectedInstanceTypeName}
disks:
- boot: true
device_name: ${resource.Idem_GCP_COMPUTE_DISK_1.name}
source: ${resource.Idem_GCP_COMPUTE_DISK_1.resource_id}
network_interfaces:
- name: eth0
subnetwork: projects/emeirelles-proj/regions/us-east1/subnetworks/default
</pre>
<p>Happy Automation !!!</p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-44699846989512020852023-07-03T16:51:00.004-03:002023-07-05T13:50:45.150-03:00GCP Plugin<p><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> continues to amaze me with its continuous evolution to cater to the ever-changing needs of customers, adapting to the demands of a more modern and agile world.<br /> </p><p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/05/plugin-based-framework-for-resources-in-vmware-aria-automation.html" target="_blank">In May, we unveiled an innovative framework</a> for provisioning Cloud Native Services, starting with AWS service. This groundbreaking plugin-based framework empowers us to respond swiftly to Cloud Providers evolution, enabling more native Services on the platform, also allowing for the extension of properties and characteristics of existing and future Services.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/06/gcp-resource-support-in-vmware-aria-automation.html" target="_blank">Excitingly, in June,</a> we expanded our support to include Google Cloud Platform services, broadening our reach and opening up new possibilities. </p><p>And there's more to come, stay tuned as we prepare to release support for Azure in the near future!<br /><br />While familiar, plugin based framework is slightly different from our previous Cloud Template design which we have been using for the past years.</p><p>To help you grasp the essentials, let's delve into a basic, hard-coded example that illustrates the minimum requirements for provisioning a simple Google Compute Engine.</p><p><b>Please, keep in mind it's just a simple example, the plugin base provides much more resources and features to enable than the classic one. </b><br /></p><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpYJC3kMvXAgnNzRizIQkjlXwBTDprsqQXXgLTs0wKf3tjYyELCjMbTAFGsBmih__Z5JZn0c6zJ9tQvw3_VHq887szsA2eZCP-Pv1PuStQ2JbuwALHqleFm7g9q7uY0iUDYGBmZwWluz-rPjGTfwpEBI9LpEngD1P079HjlIk6SrkYOS6Gu8f-CHbeeH-/s2674/GCP_Plugin.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="2674" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpYJC3kMvXAgnNzRizIQkjlXwBTDprsqQXXgLTs0wKf3tjYyELCjMbTAFGsBmih__Z5JZn0c6zJ9tQvw3_VHq887szsA2eZCP-Pv1PuStQ2JbuwALHqleFm7g9q7uY0iUDYGBmZwWluz-rPjGTfwpEBI9LpEngD1P079HjlIk6SrkYOS6Gu8f-CHbeeH-/w640-h226/GCP_Plugin.png" width="640" /></a></div><p> I started with Instance and Disk resources, just dragging them to the canvas. The "Classic" ones are the ones which we were used to have.</p><p></p><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yP1zmaDd1JE8mkg3D5j99__ddNJ1KTq0zOSckTTQV7sxyYol_K79iDBWQkLw4A-KxQw7_HI5ATcjAAXDrVjIEsbvUeF7CMx2Mz5JxGlycriNaDQ3GE2Yk4QUZH6FwnK6djhmLbJG9z2KkA7G5HuqNf-4IYXIQmEXDj5pYKu8WRByZGlZdxVWt9Z_-dqK/s440/resources.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="424" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yP1zmaDd1JE8mkg3D5j99__ddNJ1KTq0zOSckTTQV7sxyYol_K79iDBWQkLw4A-KxQw7_HI5ATcjAAXDrVjIEsbvUeF7CMx2Mz5JxGlycriNaDQ3GE2Yk4QUZH6FwnK6djhmLbJG9z2KkA7G5HuqNf-4IYXIQmEXDj5pYKu8WRByZGlZdxVWt9Z_-dqK/s320/resources.png" width="308" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>My first building block is the Compute disk, which consists of a source image and an optional disk size. Including the disk size is crucial because each image comes with specific size requirements.
<pre class="pre-code-block">
Idem_GCP_COMPUTE_DISK_1:
type: Idem.GCP.COMPUTE.DISK
properties:
account: Google Service
zone: us-east1-b
name: my-disk-2
size_gb: 20
source_image: projects/centos-cloud/global/images/centos-stream-8-v20230615
</pre>
</p><p><br /></p><p></p><p></p><p><br />Moving on, we have the Compute Instance. Here, I defined the machine type and associate it with the previously defined disk, marking it as the boot disk.
<pre class="pre-code-block">
Idem_GCP_COMPUTE_INSTANCE_1:
type: Idem.GCP.COMPUTE.INSTANCE
properties:
name: myinstance
zone: us-east1-b
account: Google Service
machine_type: zones/us-east1-b/machineTypes/n1-standard-1
disks:
- boot: true
device_name: ${resource.Idem_GCP_COMPUTE_DISK_1.name}
source: ${resource.Idem_GCP_COMPUTE_DISK_1.resource_id}
</pre>
</p><p> <br />Another essential requirement is attaching Compute Instance to a subnet. For simplicity, we'll use the default subnet in this scenario.
<pre class="pre-code-block">
network_interfaces:
- name: eth0
subnetwork: /regions/us-east1/subnetworks/default
</pre>
</p><p><br /><br />It's important to note that the plugin operates with full paths for resources such as source images, machine types, and subnets. While some resources are global, others are project-specific, so pay close attention to ensure smooth provisioning.</p><p> </p><p>You might notice there's no familiar concepts like inputs, constraints or even mappings, dont worry in the next post I'll cover how to use them into this new framework.<br /><br />happy automation !!!</p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-34207379001176997132023-06-22T16:20:00.002-03:002023-11-24T10:17:46.828-03:00Resize Behavior<p><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> gives you complete control over your applications as you wield the power to create, delete, and scale your workloads effortlessly. Say goodbye to cumbersome manual tasks and ticketing systems, Aria Automation is the master or your environment assuring the guardrails and policies are enforced all the time.<br /><br />Let's delve into the fascinating feature of vSphere Machine Resize operations and explore their behavior.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEazat0DYSJrp3yx2UE7_Ij7aCv1qZxpsIpbYY6hGoqPDPDXRv1jqB1zhMCtP3NByb5ZvxzUQ7MVkSf_EvJ5Vv-KY6U6_QPXMloEYdjevRj8-h31SroO3M7PFYAHYTx2DdrSXifBfnaE0vPjBDDVamZYEf5cKzjRjhIpXAo-DNBnTg2SbPhaYLJ-PKeTr/s1229/automation_resize.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="1229" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisEazat0DYSJrp3yx2UE7_Ij7aCv1qZxpsIpbYY6hGoqPDPDXRv1jqB1zhMCtP3NByb5ZvxzUQ7MVkSf_EvJ5Vv-KY6U6_QPXMloEYdjevRj8-h31SroO3M7PFYAHYTx2DdrSXifBfnaE0vPjBDDVamZYEf5cKzjRjhIpXAo-DNBnTg2SbPhaYLJ-PKeTr/w640-h186/automation_resize.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />If you find yourself unable to access the Resize option, this simply means that you haven't been granted the necessary entitlements yet. Aria Automation operates on a robust and finely tuned policy framework, so ensure you possess the Day 2 Actions Policy featuring <i>Cloud.vSphere.Machine.Rebuild</i> action.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzjVr1W2SuvZfqjmpHUAcvL6AHyVFqp_ObjK5m4wGrmRH-wqpZi-PwqHg7v9KS5fqjaK_Ovz6QAIgkL-sy352NG7_xRd84G-lw5Tfqg25rYGa5JPutlHiT0oH4N6okaSooyHAt0iLC7ehE3_QC1mTZZEEai7CmK9BhxSx5usdkCat-DXShVrNfpb2yr-N/s1295/Day2_policy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="1295" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyzjVr1W2SuvZfqjmpHUAcvL6AHyVFqp_ObjK5m4wGrmRH-wqpZi-PwqHg7v9KS5fqjaK_Ovz6QAIgkL-sy352NG7_xRd84G-lw5Tfqg25rYGa5JPutlHiT0oH4N6okaSooyHAt0iLC7ehE3_QC1mTZZEEai7CmK9BhxSx5usdkCat-DXShVrNfpb2yr-N/w640-h218/Day2_policy.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Let us embark upon the two distinct scenarios that lie before us.<br /><br /><b>Hot-Add NOT enabled</b><br />In this scenario, where hot-add is not enabled for your VM, there's nothing we can do.</p><p>After you select your new resources, the system will gracefully orchestrate a sequence of actions. It will command vCenter to temporarily shut down the VM, implement the necessary changes, and then bring your application back online in all its renewed glory. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Ge4sjirSJzmd7VUiS6xqOvoQCwEpAcJwRINHWuP1TMqcFTw8zcehReM6df9-UrD8t4LAZkqv-fWdRw-lD8Kxy36hRGj3p8f79OIPQs-obzsTDuZShjh6yhsnZs8m6qRq9pX0IUygnPXhoILoIHpT2BQWu8Lb4_3v6Kv3bae_tiCzDi8fUTUDhsTO1uLO/s503/Not_hot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="503" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Ge4sjirSJzmd7VUiS6xqOvoQCwEpAcJwRINHWuP1TMqcFTw8zcehReM6df9-UrD8t4LAZkqv-fWdRw-lD8Kxy36hRGj3p8f79OIPQs-obzsTDuZShjh6yhsnZs8m6qRq9pX0IUygnPXhoILoIHpT2BQWu8Lb4_3v6Kv3bae_tiCzDi8fUTUDhsTO1uLO/w400-h233/Not_hot.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />You can track the progress of this seamless transition through the tasks section.<br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAczbGw5CzmlHGc0hFQegjCdZI0hv64qk-Lu6sjDQSQtctFFVTJjifuxiGwsvnJQMKsk8PqvgmvJMU5AhOR5aS0wQqLAXTvqlKbKc2zAHoBhDchMiw_yxXW5SjcmKDjwyg3fa5LwRh30_T3JLI16JMrJpWwEMcbiBPfNVri9QV0gvnT3i9G94prfKK6YZL/s513/Task_reboot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="513" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAczbGw5CzmlHGc0hFQegjCdZI0hv64qk-Lu6sjDQSQtctFFVTJjifuxiGwsvnJQMKsk8PqvgmvJMU5AhOR5aS0wQqLAXTvqlKbKc2zAHoBhDchMiw_yxXW5SjcmKDjwyg3fa5LwRh30_T3JLI16JMrJpWwEMcbiBPfNVri9QV0gvnT3i9G94prfKK6YZL/w640-h210/Task_reboot.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /><b>Hot-Add enabled</b><br />When Hot-add is enabled, you have an additional option: whether to shutdown your VM before applying the changes or not. The decision is entirely in your hands, driven by the unique demands of your application</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMF-2pkhMpCi58qQvFO9TL8UP8SvoiT_dU30IjlxaCZbAEqMn5cOS_4YYVfcMgvZc19mCIrQIrdAKCKlJjzosDYx1B1lrOoVr0nE5ln4-gJp-GTI3tHKMi1X4eTgzPi36JdBuRCpRyp60w7vHG_dJmS-3AGtIOqP1BbTHLFrlC3ioIb19sO2s4crJTWwVu/s501/Hot-add.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="501" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMF-2pkhMpCi58qQvFO9TL8UP8SvoiT_dU30IjlxaCZbAEqMn5cOS_4YYVfcMgvZc19mCIrQIrdAKCKlJjzosDYx1B1lrOoVr0nE5ln4-gJp-GTI3tHKMi1X4eTgzPi36JdBuRCpRyp60w7vHG_dJmS-3AGtIOqP1BbTHLFrlC3ioIb19sO2s4crJTWwVu/w400-h260/Hot-add.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br />This time, as expected no outage was required, just the configuration of the VM was performed, as we can track through the vCenter tasks.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcvxy9xrU0FLXBfFkD2lrYapnZ8DF92w78CnvgZxNCLVOyD94KJIDwEnm4kUm0rrn8AxqrF3UH7B6ZKARq_hXFZ3egXdQmfu6Mj3A0HPU-4WqGPIqygSsQ1CDLl6FuKAfczJYqb1sX3-GMxQTitKIVaAntKAicB89KVIc_7XyYbREsglEgS_3qSHnGfNBI/s808/Task.only.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="127" data-original-width="808" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcvxy9xrU0FLXBfFkD2lrYapnZ8DF92w78CnvgZxNCLVOyD94KJIDwEnm4kUm0rrn8AxqrF3UH7B6ZKARq_hXFZ3egXdQmfu6Mj3A0HPU-4WqGPIqygSsQ1CDLl6FuKAfczJYqb1sX3-GMxQTitKIVaAntKAicB89KVIc_7XyYbREsglEgS_3qSHnGfNBI/w640-h101/Task.only.png" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /><br />Be vigilant about how your configuration changes the behavior of the tool and avoid unintentional outages !!!</p><p> </p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">*********************************************************************</div><div style="text-align: left;">*** Resize behavior has been changed starting at ******</div><div style="text-align: left;">*** Nov/2023 release or 8.14.1 ******</div><div style="text-align: left;">*** <a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/11/new-resize-behavior.html" target="_blank">check new post for the details</a> ****** </div><div style="text-align: left;">*********************************************************************</div><p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-18111971043542268842023-06-05T16:03:00.002-03:002023-06-05T16:42:03.107-03:00Aria on the road - June 2023<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbkA6VvHsFd2HF1gjVoqObVcNxaV2c6btTdYnWx8CmmI4XIbCN1ZAO2BiStnJnWMsH3AhOw4PwWS4k2niVk0v62tMkO1LAlUKOZdk64FyOt647JlmymMAqvxtvMCQLTiXrrfqMJT9fOP4zPKRWkute6_F2HMjmo4twiYTJHZNCT1WfNC-JuYlkLtvO8g/s954/Aria_June.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="954" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbkA6VvHsFd2HF1gjVoqObVcNxaV2c6btTdYnWx8CmmI4XIbCN1ZAO2BiStnJnWMsH3AhOw4PwWS4k2niVk0v62tMkO1LAlUKOZdk64FyOt647JlmymMAqvxtvMCQLTiXrrfqMJT9fOP4zPKRWkute6_F2HMjmo4twiYTJHZNCT1WfNC-JuYlkLtvO8g/w640-h408/Aria_June.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2I6Un0VyOM5fEQnQQuXOFENjGyxa7YVE9IyxJx5IWKGrZPJLrb8vAKPhLG-FCvDRIV04OE9eiq2rfLVAL9TVN839iZlYcTogS7BuCd4lHQppo-nhx_e5SQmmjhsmGS4yayML8v_StumUxDLgwdGMvDno-_GPg4Fbdrfjv_HA8k546CbrbTVPj1osWBQ/s769/Aria_june.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div> <p></p><div class="flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3"><div class="min-h-[20px] flex flex-col items-start gap-4 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words"><div class="markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light"><p>Welcome, <a href="http://www.justait.net/2023/04/aria-abr2023.html" target="_blank">I'm here, again, to bring you the latest updates</a> in the thrilling world of VMware Multi Cloud Management. The past two months have been particularly exciting, as VMware Aria Operations has undergone a remarkable facelift, introducing a more intuitive interface. But what truly astounds me is the speed at which VMware is bringing new solutions to the market. Today, I'm delighted to share the announcement of two groundbreaking offerings: VMware Aria Guardrails and Aria Migration. While this list is not exhaustive, you can find detailed release notes through the provided links.</p><p> <br /></p></div></div></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation</a> (formerly vRealize Automation)</span><br /><b>Cloud</b>: May release available on 18/May/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a><br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.12.1 available on 18/May/2023<br /><br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Onboard resources can now count against project's quota;</li><li>A new day-2 action wich allows <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/05/vmware-aria-automation-may-8-12-1-rebuild-a-vsphere-virtual-machine.html" target="_blank">rebuild of a provisioning</a> vSphere machines;</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_y28_I6dx2lyMATavw9xGK9Rvo-B0y3PsruHk76-kNOVHtF8wy2VXNYN2k3IajR-AJS6Dbj5YdXD7Prfx2t8evBKUYAizGMsny_lUgpOJbKBmKA2sVZ4HHOj-0sghnB7FbcvAKn9NrQ_jWaGEIVoUYmArFJNJuQf_WSIAsNbFjnRJJWgYPrLw1ppJ8A/s1920/rebuild.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_y28_I6dx2lyMATavw9xGK9Rvo-B0y3PsruHk76-kNOVHtF8wy2VXNYN2k3IajR-AJS6Dbj5YdXD7Prfx2t8evBKUYAizGMsny_lUgpOJbKBmKA2sVZ4HHOj-0sghnB7FbcvAKn9NrQ_jWaGEIVoUYmArFJNJuQf_WSIAsNbFjnRJJWgYPrLw1ppJ8A/w640-h360/rebuild.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Reservation of IP address from internal IPAM;<br /></li></ul><p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/05/aa-may-release-2.html" target="_blank">More details:</a><br /> </p><p><b>Cloud</b>: April release available on 08/Apr/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Release notes:</a><br /><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.12 available on 20/Apr/2023 </p><p><br /></p><ul><li>VMware Aria brand has been officially introduced into the platform;<br /></li><li>Individual automation services (Assembler, Service Broker, Pipelines) have been consolitated into a single tile.</li><li>First encarnation of Plugin based framework, which will allow us to respond faster to new cloud native services;</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif1Y4r7Lts-X3JMmO1gEpVvsSULovV-XTYdC7v-O-jgL_F5wVSJMd8wTYVWW_vznOPYSe1ZAYKD4UObf-_a_h-aoafAcWWcNMIjaRwDG6cPTCD8bdZRetgStzA54ZqesSPWRReMQMog2xTyy4ImJ9fPWsH7Lg6qfL_tosn7yIScHoNV2aaM08jHTgZOA/s902/Plugin-framework.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="353" data-original-width="902" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif1Y4r7Lts-X3JMmO1gEpVvsSULovV-XTYdC7v-O-jgL_F5wVSJMd8wTYVWW_vznOPYSe1ZAYKD4UObf-_a_h-aoafAcWWcNMIjaRwDG6cPTCD8bdZRetgStzA54ZqesSPWRReMQMog2xTyy4ImJ9fPWsH7Lg6qfL_tosn7yIScHoNV2aaM08jHTgZOA/w640-h250/Plugin-framework.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><ul><li>Ability to select storage types during provisioning (thin/thick/eager);</li><li><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/04/vmware-aria-automation-april-8-12-0-custom-forms-version-history.html" target="_blank">Custom forms</a> can now have multiple versions just like cloud templates;</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipqCm1bLZS3i_N5mvW1m8FWBo_TaLyjr84FGxfokZT6_kvykkaH-mEwS4r3U9OTWPeN7eH1g7_MI_p2uYGAlo358O0NR9pnaMvM9iW7nmvxstXZ-cZf0Tl8RA2DXIcsIr3Ngg0ipqP98iZPMW2Ulm_PyTNBWoCra70huYtHeLlDLQqy-FFvKwhDBswBw/s1508/Custom_form.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1508" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipqCm1bLZS3i_N5mvW1m8FWBo_TaLyjr84FGxfokZT6_kvykkaH-mEwS4r3U9OTWPeN7eH1g7_MI_p2uYGAlo358O0NR9pnaMvM9iW7nmvxstXZ-cZf0Tl8RA2DXIcsIr3Ngg0ipqP98iZPMW2Ulm_PyTNBWoCra70huYtHeLlDLQqy-FFvKwhDBswBw/w640-h340/Custom_form.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><ul><li>API for IPAM integration;</li><li>Support for Ansible Automation Controller (previously Ansible Automation Tower);<br /></li></ul><p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/04/aa-april-release.html" target="_blank">More details:</a></p><p><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation/saltstack-config.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Config</a> (formerly SaltStack Config)</span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Cloud</b>: April release available on 08/Apr/2023</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.12 available on 20/Apr/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes:</a></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">thanks to the integration with Automation, now salt grains are visible within Assembler;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Support for Windows 20222 CIS benchmark;<br /></span></li></ul><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-orchestrator.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator</a></span></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Cloud</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: April release available on 08/Apr/2023 </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b> </b></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.12 available on 20/Apr/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Automation/services/rn/vmware-aria-automation-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><ul style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Support to vCenter 8.x API;</span></li></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b></b></span><p><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-hub-powered-by-aria-graph.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Hub</a></span></span></p><b>Cloud</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: May release available on 08/May/2023 <br /></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Support for Google Cloud in the Free Tier, along with Azure and AWS;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Integration with Aria Guardrails;<br /></span></li></ul><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://via.vmw.com/FreeTier" target="_blank">Sign up for the free tier here;</a></span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-guardrails.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Guardrails</a></span></span></p><b>Cloud</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: May release available on 08/May/2023 <br /></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> Initial avaiability, including</span></li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Cloud visibility;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">CIS violation</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Config/drift Management</span></li></ul></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/05/announcing-vmware-aria-guardrails.html">More details:</a> <br /></span><div><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <a href="https://via.vmw.com/FreeTier" target="_blank">Sign up for the free tier here;</a></span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-migration.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Migration</a></span></span></p><b>Cloud</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: May release available on 01/May/2023 </span></div><div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Initial availability;</span></li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Assessment capability already available in free tier;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Planning and Execution capability will come next;</span></li></ul></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdXIRXehU3CNLrkJO6Hrq50shiaQPyCOXmlFqKB7yrxt7TQjhJ6EVAuxA-JDNFKO7-s1vLFRiCkjUNakPgaljtQJtYaFy_AJnYCBT-lHsL4-kGxU4TEp_-PXrNMLSivJtRzFMBYAEYdivE2miAe67dhULfiUwTVQRyP8ipCNUigQnWfdl8-MUS3B1DQ/s1037/migration.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="1037" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkdXIRXehU3CNLrkJO6Hrq50shiaQPyCOXmlFqKB7yrxt7TQjhJ6EVAuxA-JDNFKO7-s1vLFRiCkjUNakPgaljtQJtYaFy_AJnYCBT-lHsL4-kGxU4TEp_-PXrNMLSivJtRzFMBYAEYdivE2miAe67dhULfiUwTVQRyP8ipCNUigQnWfdl8-MUS3B1DQ/w640-h330/migration.png" width="640" /></a></div></span><br /><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://via.vmw.com/migrationFree" target="_blank">Try Aria Migration for free.</a> <br /></span></div><div><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-automation-for-secure-clouds.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Automation for Secure Clouds</a> </span></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(formerly CloudHealth Secure State)</span></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Cloud</b>: from April to May releases - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/CloudHealth-Secure-State/What's-New/rn/vmware-aria-automation-for-secure-clouds-whats-new-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> Integration with Google Cloud Security command Center to be able to correlate information between cloud resources, posture configuration threats and vulnerabilities; <br /></span></li></ul><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations</a> (formerly vRealize Operations)</span><br /></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b>Cloud</b><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">: April release available on 14/Apr/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/services/rn/vmware-aria-operations-saas-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>On-premises</b>: version 8.12 available on 20/Apr/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/8.12/rn/vmware-aria-operations-812-release-notes/index.html">release notes</a></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New Launchpad page replacing the older formely Quickstart, grouping together aspects of a flow of working.</li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_GUSzF4KDSfaIXrqI-FCJYfrMJGvDzyh914RzzLofhNmh_21V5UVZk13qtx4LqZXN228IYO0pmRWtGi60jofq7p3ww4bhFWkUD_I80r4Bd08Je-K6IMpf5NeYY9n9Xbs4C_rWcUpKI_i_O5nqCEAR8QTmwR6i_eyM8Q1z8SoT8cBhOC-D2qF29mgfQ/s1776/launchpad.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="1776" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_GUSzF4KDSfaIXrqI-FCJYfrMJGvDzyh914RzzLofhNmh_21V5UVZk13qtx4LqZXN228IYO0pmRWtGi60jofq7p3ww4bhFWkUD_I80r4Bd08Je-K6IMpf5NeYY9n9Xbs4C_rWcUpKI_i_O5nqCEAR8QTmwR6i_eyM8Q1z8SoT8cBhOC-D2qF29mgfQ/w640-h322/launchpad.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New brand name, Aria Operations, introduced to the platform;</li><li>High Availability for Applications monitoring with Telegraf;</li><li>Dedicated cloud account for Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), making management easier;<br /></li><li>New automations for Automation Central, tasks such as power on/off VMS and snapshot selection based on criterias;</li><li>Run what-if scenarios for outdated scenarios;</li><li>The use of pre-defined VM's profile for capacity management;</li><li>Deactivation of some alerts to reduce the unecessary noise, <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/91410" target="_blank">check KB</a> for the details;<br /></li><li>Tighter integration with Aria Logs, with a dedicated frame inside Ops, now you can troubleshoot things faster from a central location;</li></ul></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-84OO_udLL3JY_nM_SzmrAt7jzk3Gz-yOFtBBh7hXvxMBTU6uBwgnn-warDGaApKVSQFgP2JWLEwJjYZFJf1ESuAEF2Jdc26u6bRXwJUZgnvXOTDr46k1xQ-XP2Idtjp-KMJuwt7SaQqE2x9CGXEYK29W800_R-p6r5E1H1UNvQnCLJpeYfJvwZuSQ/s431/log-analysis.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="431" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc-84OO_udLL3JY_nM_SzmrAt7jzk3Gz-yOFtBBh7hXvxMBTU6uBwgnn-warDGaApKVSQFgP2JWLEwJjYZFJf1ESuAEF2Jdc26u6bRXwJUZgnvXOTDr46k1xQ-XP2Idtjp-KMJuwt7SaQqE2x9CGXEYK29W800_R-p6r5E1H1UNvQnCLJpeYfJvwZuSQ/w640-h358/log-analysis.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><p><a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/services/rn/vmware-aria-operations-saas-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank"></a></p><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/04/whats-new-in-vmware-aria-operations-8-12.html" target="_blank">More details:</a><br /><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-applications.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations for Applications</a> (formerly Tanzu Observability)</span><br /><b>Cloud</b>: from April to May releases - <a href="https://docs.wavefront.com/wavefront_release_notes.html">release notes</a><br /><br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">New Geo Map Chart to visualize ingested data by location;</span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6ns65fm52P-tEokjOb2e3ebbhKbeh5UK_eAonJmeJms4XARzkM2WJV7grWJX-Aok9UiriEk-Pfk2xJ60ES5HYN-FqRYvkE8kkyK7h-1sg4u5hbdgFvpZxeol6KmJzYAEQ6R7FchFnDK7kj_XGcNN9Z7yP68cx0WGFiFBh3vT9XUZ4MDqs-U0mAMTgQ/s1865/geo-map-chart.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1865" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo6ns65fm52P-tEokjOb2e3ebbhKbeh5UK_eAonJmeJms4XARzkM2WJV7grWJX-Aok9UiriEk-Pfk2xJ60ES5HYN-FqRYvkE8kkyK7h-1sg4u5hbdgFvpZxeol6KmJzYAEQ6R7FchFnDK7kj_XGcNN9Z7yP68cx0WGFiFBh3vT9XUZ4MDqs-U0mAMTgQ/w640-h208/geo-map-chart.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>warning about changes to the metrics obsolete period, in the next released it will go from 28 to 14 days to improve query performance;</li><li>Additional integrations improvements;</li><ul><li>Istio: updated Setup and instructions based on Kubernetes Operators;</li><li>Envoy: updated Setup and instructions based on Kubernetes Operators;</li><li>RabbitMQ: updated Setup and instructions based on Kubernetes Operators;</li><li>Tanzu Application Services: updated to Troubleshooting and Workload dashboards;</li></ul></ul> </div><div><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-logs.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations for Logs</a> (formerly vRealize Log Insight)</span><br /><b>Cloud</b>: May release available on 16/May/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vRealize-Log-Insight-Cloud/services/rn/vmware-vrealize-log-insight-cloud-release-notes/index.html">release notes</a></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/05/google-cloud-vmware-engine-and-vmware-aria-operations-for-logs.html" target="_blank">New visibility </a>of Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE);</span></li></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgww4eBN5ykvhs8tn_CNepEU22KY--Xi3wtYo5GPSc-5xkZc5G1oswtwKQfiKr6XaBgvVNM7Dl-NLfb8RrmfDfk17NRQoswecZe5QS8IO8XrgYflrxBxhCx4ufheWdv_mi9J0teNRjTMXhAdoHMiFHQimlIakElpRUY3V-EXhUIQzI60qsIc-nJ9zlxYw/s975/gcve.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="975" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgww4eBN5ykvhs8tn_CNepEU22KY--Xi3wtYo5GPSc-5xkZc5G1oswtwKQfiKr6XaBgvVNM7Dl-NLfb8RrmfDfk17NRQoswecZe5QS8IO8XrgYflrxBxhCx4ufheWdv_mi9J0teNRjTMXhAdoHMiFHQimlIakElpRUY3V-EXhUIQzI60qsIc-nJ9zlxYw/w640-h340/gcve.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>On-Prem</b>: </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">version 8.12 available on 20/Apr/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations-for-Logs/8.12/rn/vmware-aria-operations-for-logs-812-release-notes/index.html">release notes</a></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New brand name, Aria Operations for Logs, introduced to the platform;</li><li>Support for 10 index partitions, allowing greater flexibility in date retention policies;</li><li>Agent support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9;</li><li>Capability to federate your On-Prem implementation with the SaaS offering;<br /></li></ul><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></span><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/management/2023/04/announcing-vmware-aria-operations-for-logs-8-12-and-saas.html" target="_blank"> More details:</a><br /></div><div><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://cloudhealth.vmware.com/" target="_blank">VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth</a> (formerly CloudHealth)</span><br /><b>Cloud</b>: from April to May releases</span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Kubernetes right size for Azure;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Amazon OpenSearch rightsize recommendation; </span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Support for the following new Assets;</span></li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">AWS</span></li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">ElasticCache Replication Groups;</span></li></ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Azure</span></li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Machine Learning Compute;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Container Registry;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">AVS Virtual Machine;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">AVS Datastore;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">AVS Cluster;</span></li></ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Google</span></li><ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Big Table Backup;<br /></span></li></ul></ul><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Tag curation, allow to disable/enable tags in order to help greater visibility; </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> Documentation page has been migrated to VMware Docs, <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Cost-powered-by-CloudHealth/index.html" target="_blank">access here</a>;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Support for Alibaba Cloud;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> Collector agent older than 1172 will be deprecated soon, make sure to update yours;<br /></span></li></ul><p><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-suite-lifecycle.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle</a> </span></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(formerly vRealize Lifecycle Manager)</span></span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>On-prem</b>: version 8.12 released on 20/Apr/2023 - <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Suite-Lifecycle/8.12/rn/vmware-aria-suite-lifecycle-812-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">New brand VMware Aria introduced to all platform;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">vSphere Authentication setup for VMware Aria Orchestrator;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Selection of NSX Advanced Load Balancer or NSX-T LoadBalancer for VCF implementations;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Improvements to the upgrade process of Aria Operations, reducing the time it takes to upgrade it;</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">****************************************************</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">BONUS</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">****************************************************</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Skyline Pro (17/May/2023) -</b></span> <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Skyline-Advisor/services/rn/vmware-skyline-advisor-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">release notes:</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Enhanced information on your Entitlement Account and SaaS Subscription dashboards;</span></li><li><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Support Request visibility on the Log Assist page;<br /></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b>Skyline Collector 3.4 (13/Apr/2023)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #0e101a;">UI updated to reflect new brand, VMware Aria;</span></li><li><span style="color: #0e101a;">automated Aria Operations for Logs endpoint discovery;</span></li><li><span style="color: #0e101a;">Addition of<a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2023/03/vmware-skyline-advisor-pro-proactive-findings-march-2023-edition.html" target="_blank"> 43 new proactive findings</a>;</span></li></ul><span style="color: #0e101a;"><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/kb/2023/05/skyline_may_2023.html" target="_blank">More details:</a> <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-size: medium;"><b>VMware Aria Automation ServiceNow plugin 8.12</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #0e101a;">Plugin name is now VMware Automation Plugin;</span></li><li><span style="color: #0e101a;">Support for custom day-2 actions;</span></li><li><span style="color: #0e101a;">Introduced price estimative for catalog items;</span></li><li><span style="color: #0e101a;">Enable the use of icons for catalog items; <br /></span></li></ul><span style="color: #0e101a;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0e101a;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="color: #0e101a;"> </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></div><p></p><p></p></div>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-77374672172399269002023-05-31T16:10:00.002-03:002023-05-31T16:10:28.937-03:00Downloading Rate Card link not responding<p>During countless discussions revolving around <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations</a> (formerly vRealize Operations), a recurring question always arises: Where do the costs presented in capacity plans come from?<br /><br /><a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/SaaS/Using-Operations/GUID-1FB5E3B7-B91F-49BA-B2EF-7D772424DF58.html" target="_blank">Aria Operations' capacity planning</a> functionality excels in forecasting capacity needs while providing insightful cost estimations for the future. However, it's important to note that these estimations are just that, estimations. Out of the box, the tool displays public list prices of cloud providers, which may not accurately reflect your specific agreements or entitled discounts.<br /><br />In what-if scenarios for traditional workload planning, the capacity plan showcases the estimated costs associated with different scenarios including cloud providers. This enables you to make informed decisions regarding resource allocation and budgeting.<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT9VPkQ48TYvsVtOcyqJxETdYRzgtpG2bpDmhnzldLaapsy39Qs5_qZ8gYqN67Q6YCi5VDNhduevhZKJOFL4hJm0k83fXBr77OKr6JurLTPCW0451sOkmKB7FjudiMUxJOEqIjxXr5w0fmvqutFS7BV4y2soVaOCTYd-NZeEiTKpFdU5YA5Jx63Whc5A/s1286/workload_cost.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="1286" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT9VPkQ48TYvsVtOcyqJxETdYRzgtpG2bpDmhnzldLaapsy39Qs5_qZ8gYqN67Q6YCi5VDNhduevhZKJOFL4hJm0k83fXBr77OKr6JurLTPCW0451sOkmKB7FjudiMUxJOEqIjxXr5w0fmvqutFS7BV4y2soVaOCTYd-NZeEiTKpFdU5YA5Jx63Whc5A/w640-h278/workload_cost.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p><br />Similarly, for migration to public cloud scenarios, Aria Operations provides cost estimations that assist in evaluating the financial implications of such a transition.<br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzJMRcx0S1v5xo6riJ12RnsYdjcAbvFgHkXzZxosd0WyW1zGCtuA0tL62ARKXKFXfb6Nuxhn72u7O8rUhBxtRUti-0FRDwmITbFH-hILC0p4WROCVhPQ8s-Bnh0meHoLhDrztL8J2YMT2EcSZlg_MR4LEDzSBZ1Ih5rbtfjib_2A22Kmbmtd3NZ6Hxw/s1255/Migration_cost.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="1255" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqzJMRcx0S1v5xo6riJ12RnsYdjcAbvFgHkXzZxosd0WyW1zGCtuA0tL62ARKXKFXfb6Nuxhn72u7O8rUhBxtRUti-0FRDwmITbFH-hILC0p4WROCVhPQ8s-Bnh0meHoLhDrztL8J2YMT2EcSZlg_MR4LEDzSBZ1Ih5rbtfjib_2A22Kmbmtd3NZ6Hxw/w640-h388/Migration_cost.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Now, here's the exciting part: you can customize the cost estimation to reflect your actual agreements. By accessing each Cloud Provider configuration, you can update the rate card with your own costs. </p><p>The process is simple; download the rate-card template, update it with your values, and upload it back into the system. For detailed instructions, refer to the <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/8.12/Configuring-Operations/GUID-07319EF4-DDBD-4268-8ADA-AC4DD2D02574.html" target="_blank">documentation provided</a>;</p><p> </p><p>But this post is not about how to update rate-cards.<br />I discovered a temporary hiccup in Aria Operations 8.12: the function to download the rate-card template was not working as intended. Whether attempted from the Cloud Providers page or the Cloud Providers details page, the link failed to respond.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAy-cVbtLHz9UkgntjxHkyiOi2qhU7F16_mt591gs6G9JrHDTFekTWULXKyNl52gNKiqu4oW9MaBhwpPO8NpJMnypuOWvbV8xVqoTXJhQ0CKx5Z_58OICJGJYazeUP3URxihmyoFHDlylgASXnLbY7eGlWXGZC5XvWBjY5qyIn-noYLjr-Vg2bR6_0yw/s1288/Download_rate.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1288" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAy-cVbtLHz9UkgntjxHkyiOi2qhU7F16_mt591gs6G9JrHDTFekTWULXKyNl52gNKiqu4oW9MaBhwpPO8NpJMnypuOWvbV8xVqoTXJhQ0CKx5Z_58OICJGJYazeUP3URxihmyoFHDlylgASXnLbY7eGlWXGZC5XvWBjY5qyIn-noYLjr-Vg2bR6_0yw/w400-h295/Download_rate.png" width="400" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaII43KK8PE7toI8bVXQ5WMAkbMD8UmQ6w_TxWnL-3p2g79wSAsONylkBn9lFgtoIVeHlsjJcocxxENKRVeMDYOpJCrGCxF0uqoRIwj273mpefQaXefPdNyHplD8_nuzrvr549r2k6X7Os4BV36z-kuFjSdqdWMzY7-u3dDlZHQj_o7W316nFQmckk0A/s1678/Downloading_operations.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1678" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaII43KK8PE7toI8bVXQ5WMAkbMD8UmQ6w_TxWnL-3p2g79wSAsONylkBn9lFgtoIVeHlsjJcocxxENKRVeMDYOpJCrGCxF0uqoRIwj273mpefQaXefPdNyHplD8_nuzrvr549r2k6X7Os4BV36z-kuFjSdqdWMzY7-u3dDlZHQj_o7W316nFQmckk0A/w400-h234/Downloading_operations.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><br />To my pleasant surprise, VMware addressed the issue quickly <a href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/92387" target="_blank">releasing a Hotfix</a>, which, among others fixes this rate card issue. <p></p><p>I promptly navigated to Aria Lifecycle Manager, downloaded the binary...</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdmGWIzV22Hc7QlmzLhEt5R18bNpbe9TTYwWOIXt7zJY_P9IVBNt_oAnnANwHWVhlz2DN9LlByjyOcrHPNa4_7zJ-YvoPkTgYNUY7MGXK6CdflqxBLysIjDWJ3Z-12awymUN7jEW2elY7hoYUgcQ3y9Ye3Vz8X9QS8ZkMfPTN896RMbxl5pSzoGKJWcA/s1008/patch_binaries.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="1008" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdmGWIzV22Hc7QlmzLhEt5R18bNpbe9TTYwWOIXt7zJY_P9IVBNt_oAnnANwHWVhlz2DN9LlByjyOcrHPNa4_7zJ-YvoPkTgYNUY7MGXK6CdflqxBLysIjDWJ3Z-12awymUN7jEW2elY7hoYUgcQ3y9Ye3Vz8X9QS8ZkMfPTN896RMbxl5pSzoGKJWcA/w640-h229/patch_binaries.png" width="640" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;">... and applied HF1. Now the download function has been restored to full functionality. <br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlNh7NquGo1mc0n3Un2TH_InhfxMvRYgjWN-E1eVAT0m_AZS6cjzs69jfIvt7BNskFmQ8gFxY07-J6-KpYAAs3jDBSVBdeLWIf7XsxPK9QZo8io2tj-fl58nxC62ATv3aAE7nD1bPy9Tqwp70Af3vjEmf6pcjYfS89KQ8cr5MUVy8Uqj_FHO8ZN-NVQ/s616/LCM_upgrade.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="616" height="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivlNh7NquGo1mc0n3Un2TH_InhfxMvRYgjWN-E1eVAT0m_AZS6cjzs69jfIvt7BNskFmQ8gFxY07-J6-KpYAAs3jDBSVBdeLWIf7XsxPK9QZo8io2tj-fl58nxC62ATv3aAE7nD1bPy9Tqwp70Af3vjEmf6pcjYfS89KQ8cr5MUVy8Uqj_FHO8ZN-NVQ/w640-h550/LCM_upgrade.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br />Have You Noticed this behavior?</p><br /><br />Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-31396732811448400542023-05-24T11:05:00.002-03:002023-05-24T11:05:15.637-03:00Upgrading VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.12<p> </p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Today, we embark on an exciting journey of upgrading my lab to <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-suite-vcloud-suite.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Suite</a> version 8.12 in order to benefit from all the<a href="http://www.justait.net/search?q=aria+on+the+road" target="_blank"> recently new features released</a>.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Of course the tool for the job is the exceptional <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-suite-lifecycle.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle</a>, a tool designed to simplify and automate lifecycle tasks, ensuring a smooth and efficient environment.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">To kickstart the upgrade process, we first focused on upgrading Aria Suite Lifecycle itself. With its user-friendly interface, upgrading to version 8.12 was a breeze. Simply navigate to </span><strong style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Settings/System Upgrade</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">, initiate the process, and enjoy a well-deserved cup of coffee as the magic unfolds.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP1icGgJOeWsca93u7kbvL8K0LkC2Wn7XUFfQpJCFF7DN_Z4lDHQNbN-M0yGHGrIMbNSbIVkVMUB_mzdJNKS_WoYSifYu78sMv4sibI6WE7AQcX5o8qkd9K0No8LXKRnkOoT6gNfc7cG8qkI8AZxxU7d-9KLR69Gtdj0Ba0Yo74K6zGYXt97hKKkV2PA/s1587/upgrade_lcm.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="1587" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP1icGgJOeWsca93u7kbvL8K0LkC2Wn7XUFfQpJCFF7DN_Z4lDHQNbN-M0yGHGrIMbNSbIVkVMUB_mzdJNKS_WoYSifYu78sMv4sibI6WE7AQcX5o8qkd9K0No8LXKRnkOoT6gNfc7cG8qkI8AZxxU7d-9KLR69Gtdj0Ba0Yo74K6zGYXt97hKKkV2PA/w640-h200/upgrade_lcm.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Next, it was time to upgrade the suite's individual products. It's a straightforward process involved visiting </span><strong style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Settings/Binary Mapping </span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">and effortlessly adding the required binaries to our upgrade arsenal.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfmw4s0HA44kK2bWKjmPK_J68AjXf3aVxEfd-GIVMxRvRWNGxehHBi_Pdgs5E_BDmGUGcKgxVXLaQ5da48zKazMg-W0YTW6oYRNsvq22dayICiNrf7HmolvuASk-ns_CcqBF0Fgay6SfxnW0qbboww7nON4BjLF2uf3K_yKUMds6gHJ578kGdyZZCKg/s1586/Binary_mapping.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1586" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGfmw4s0HA44kK2bWKjmPK_J68AjXf3aVxEfd-GIVMxRvRWNGxehHBi_Pdgs5E_BDmGUGcKgxVXLaQ5da48zKazMg-W0YTW6oYRNsvq22dayICiNrf7HmolvuASk-ns_CcqBF0Fgay6SfxnW0qbboww7nON4BjLF2uf3K_yKUMds6gHJ578kGdyZZCKg/w640-h250/Binary_mapping.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">However, that's when our journey encountered a minor obstacle along the way. While downloading <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-logs.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations for Logs</a> 8.12 (formerly vRealize Log Insight), an error message surfaced, stating, "<i>Unable to find the requested product version details in VMware Aria Suite Versions this user account is entitled to</i>." </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvnpuKnG3cB9ZLWfSYOg8UJfeBcQrXDO9ez3gNVPdbeeQ-RgXVmDHWDt8rxxT7p6tfABavOuQRPl8EvPRie6amSJWHgwvBnCk-h2em5PZ2SsuFS0W7D1LmdDAu_pihrQW4IKDrcLD-Sr_-Ckc5jGWjExTuNR-TBBkXzK_1o_wIg-LytQ-NPY6vdSyQg/s1303/lcm_entitle.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="1303" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGvnpuKnG3cB9ZLWfSYOg8UJfeBcQrXDO9ez3gNVPdbeeQ-RgXVmDHWDt8rxxT7p6tfABavOuQRPl8EvPRie6amSJWHgwvBnCk-h2em5PZ2SsuFS0W7D1LmdDAu_pihrQW4IKDrcLD-Sr_-Ckc5jGWjExTuNR-TBBkXzK_1o_wIg-LytQ-NPY6vdSyQg/w640-h262/lcm_entitle.png" width="640" /></a></div><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">My account and entitlements were in perfect order. I decided to take a different approach, manually downloading the patch from <a href="https://customerconnect.vmware.com/home" target="_blank">customer connect</a> and adding it via Lifecycle Manager itself.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">This time the error was something related with checksum. "<i>Selected files checksum does not match with any product versions supported</i>".</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwFYHUAY8rLx2eDgLS0RFbcVc4GcCcSRGf8mjwXw0kPRE8jFTnm7NTDkHoX94d_EQB5gsIwavNmWAAMt_MdEHB4DhAL-By2AEKixAvf5rPooHixd5fHzS8ktiIyGKnUJTn6T67fs_Jbz_t75HY_w8CSa11MfCqEwOx-HZDlo1XqNvrZpc8IW83aOVRIg/s489/lcm_checksum.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="489" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwFYHUAY8rLx2eDgLS0RFbcVc4GcCcSRGf8mjwXw0kPRE8jFTnm7NTDkHoX94d_EQB5gsIwavNmWAAMt_MdEHB4DhAL-By2AEKixAvf5rPooHixd5fHzS8ktiIyGKnUJTn6T67fs_Jbz_t75HY_w8CSa11MfCqEwOx-HZDlo1XqNvrZpc8IW83aOVRIg/w400-h370/lcm_checksum.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Time to explore the realm of Product Support Packs and was pleasantly surprised to discover two of them; 8.12.0.1 and 8.12.0.2. Taking decisive action, we upgraded both support packs, laying the foundation for a successful upgrade of Aria Operations for Logs to version 8.12.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1YW4-Fp1-J2wGCMJKWUYSYUBo5x4RA2qZjmPtUtH1DmZoSIqQJMVpUKAVS0wo-EzIkxdx-cygDI1ocX2RMMvIKbHzFpILc8v54NbVGOh6W7R-DNhbA-Z4SEJajQBL2LAP8giSMkcttuBjgh9ByFvbiOOkiW1wNZ5asFePthyBj2gXBrghwxlTM9uUcA/s1586/lcm_pspack.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="1586" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1YW4-Fp1-J2wGCMJKWUYSYUBo5x4RA2qZjmPtUtH1DmZoSIqQJMVpUKAVS0wo-EzIkxdx-cygDI1ocX2RMMvIKbHzFpILc8v54NbVGOh6W7R-DNhbA-Z4SEJajQBL2LAP8giSMkcttuBjgh9ByFvbiOOkiW1wNZ5asFePthyBj2gXBrghwxlTM9uUcA/w640-h250/lcm_pspack.png" width="640" /></a></div><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">If you dont see any, make sure you hit <b>Check Support Packs Online</b> first.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ2uU--RezP0W5-eHx3djjzR1_mcexX2mMiel-vUnkslp6aN_XOIMoQX1_fr9s6fD0Nxl6O_DbqEopLDu9reiJ8yymhwXJjDAKrnkDGG2ydj0NN3Oa1bHgNo1Z91KwhbyW3QkzHYU7cWjl1w6FxWbuVNw9RxWQPkXEXNjnyKGPw0SfjXzqTLlEdPXzHg/s1586/pspack_check.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="835" data-original-width="1586" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ2uU--RezP0W5-eHx3djjzR1_mcexX2mMiel-vUnkslp6aN_XOIMoQX1_fr9s6fD0Nxl6O_DbqEopLDu9reiJ8yymhwXJjDAKrnkDGG2ydj0NN3Oa1bHgNo1Z91KwhbyW3QkzHYU7cWjl1w6FxWbuVNw9RxWQPkXEXNjnyKGPw0SfjXzqTLlEdPXzHg/w640-h336/pspack_check.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">I learned an invaluable lesson: the importance of keeping our environments up to date.</span></p><p style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="background: transparent; color: #0e101a; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </span></p>Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5389461454348161792.post-64329387869142922662023-05-19T12:01:00.001-03:002023-05-19T12:01:43.407-03:00Unleashing the Power of Committed Scenarios<p><a href="https://www.vmware.com/" target="_blank">VMware</a> has a rich history in infrastructure management, and <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations.html" target="_blank">VMware Aria Operations </a>(formerly vRealize Operations) continues to build upon that legacy, from vSphere to multi-cloud management, with each iteration, it continually enhancing its features, algorithms, and artificial intelligence capabilities to claim its position as the industry's premier management solution.<br /><br />One of the standout features that has undergone relentless evolution is Capacity Planning, an indispensable tool for administrators seeking to effectively manage and predict workload impact, while making informed decisions regarding expansion or migration requirements. However, despite the impressive "what-if" scenarios capabilities, customers were left in the dark when it came to visualizing the committed workload impact on their infrastructure.<br /><br />Since the release of <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations/8.10/rn/vrealize-operations-810-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">Aria Operations 8.10</a>, administrators can finally commit to a workload and witness its impact across all future capacity planning endeavors. <br /><br />Let's take a closer look at how the <a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/SaaS/Using-Operations/GUID-1FB5E3B7-B91F-49BA-B2EF-7D772424DF58.html" target="_blank">committed scenario</a> feature works.</p><p>First, we take a glance at our current capacity. Everything seems perfectly fine, and with our organic growth, capacity issues are not anticipated.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5XZ0oO1sTHdrZuW-NyfSz6gZBbUYoINKNYyCVi3W7njcVRbQfdLbd92YuLY0B2-CgW4WAkPzJq-h7Kp3W1yxLhYJBCd2Zt7NCpPXi7Fgf3MRDRohFHL3jq8Npi9JzaBkw37Om0BcdCMPX-xihlXUKrJKn61lYqU6AVO_BDcVyHbGqbVF7AtYK_l-3LA/s1093/Ops_capacity.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1093" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5XZ0oO1sTHdrZuW-NyfSz6gZBbUYoINKNYyCVi3W7njcVRbQfdLbd92YuLY0B2-CgW4WAkPzJq-h7Kp3W1yxLhYJBCd2Zt7NCpPXi7Fgf3MRDRohFHL3jq8Npi9JzaBkw37Om0BcdCMPX-xihlXUKrJKn61lYqU6AVO_BDcVyHbGqbVF7AtYK_l-3LA/w640-h434/Ops_capacity.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br />Next, we move on to planning a future project and adding workloads to our environment. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmM-2yXw0Q8ydmGcb3OPdHMuUhJj9S7hblgjebtGnF1NTkdee-JrDEds6K93pfX0GpT3Uj0gFoP-n0PrCbCh0O5_G2p6PQbyqp68kQH3nOHJxY3guRcDHAR4mftqzz8Ft-D5wBLBVEgHC_k1NIT9iK_dDBs4CNDC7MnEeee-n7xuLe2MiyWpIuYUErQ/s1392/ops_scenarios.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="1392" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFmM-2yXw0Q8ydmGcb3OPdHMuUhJj9S7hblgjebtGnF1NTkdee-JrDEds6K93pfX0GpT3Uj0gFoP-n0PrCbCh0O5_G2p6PQbyqp68kQH3nOHJxY3guRcDHAR4mftqzz8Ft-D5wBLBVEgHC_k1NIT9iK_dDBs4CNDC7MnEeee-n7xuLe2MiyWpIuYUErQ/w640-h320/ops_scenarios.png" width="640" /></a></div><p>With the intuitive interface, administrators can input workload details manually, select similar VMs already running, or even leverage custom VM profiles (<a href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Aria-Operations/8.12/rn/vmware-aria-operations-812-release-notes/index.html" target="_blank">added to Operations 8.12</a>, not shown on my environment yet) to calculate the required capacity.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvex6YpIg_gKa0nyykaHCBrIqL2Q1h3gUzb538xFdZAeB0RnyTBa5RBtd9XsJL5qYauPpfxZRNkxW4kAz7mmHnuyMhRN9CG59ukr3yuDFcPH5Hin-2ua2N5c8VZDAFg73r2NS__5f8DqJABP8ckZXbvIo9d36qITqYWwjWN0r_UVZhtKK9fQ0pJ-eQGg/s766/scenario01.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="766" height="581" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvex6YpIg_gKa0nyykaHCBrIqL2Q1h3gUzb538xFdZAeB0RnyTBa5RBtd9XsJL5qYauPpfxZRNkxW4kAz7mmHnuyMhRN9CG59ukr3yuDFcPH5Hin-2ua2N5c8VZDAFg73r2NS__5f8DqJABP8ckZXbvIo9d36qITqYWwjWN0r_UVZhtKK9fQ0pJ-eQGg/w640-h581/scenario01.png" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br />As we analyze the projected workload demand, we observe that it comfortably fits within our cluster's capacity.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptQIWUQqYgILCxJKzGI5Sfs9o81PYtVGgeNuzkdRRDK4KRqV5OQJeJKkr1-8W4XKbq9weC5fCaFa0BVhHvYEXNbHyk4Tb2afadosSZ3PNoiNFgwb4T_n7xzo2b-HwXw5XI9QdpIMscYWqHiefraYn-eSlYV-cadwTdw95VSnKNHtxUL46ZhMo5ICpbw/s1358/workload_fit.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="1358" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgptQIWUQqYgILCxJKzGI5Sfs9o81PYtVGgeNuzkdRRDK4KRqV5OQJeJKkr1-8W4XKbq9weC5fCaFa0BVhHvYEXNbHyk4Tb2afadosSZ3PNoiNFgwb4T_n7xzo2b-HwXw5XI9QdpIMscYWqHiefraYn-eSlYV-cadwTdw95VSnKNHtxUL46ZhMo5ICpbw/w640-h102/workload_fit.png" width="640" /></a></p><p> <br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Drilling down into the scenario details, we gain invaluable insights into the projected demand impact over time, facilitating accurate forecasting and strategic decision-making.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfcxQOiJZtD9lbddpUwOyy9e_pF9LYQ3ITJSJEMeTx9K0h1tKKpqtSaP7KpFRxNYJ4pmOPJgPn0qlBCryW7L7LCBL7yPmk07438P1fI2FCOs2TM8Zc7CbR6JAfVQMHPC9OSdnpUqjaCc3EizNEVmfGTbUv_oszY74-nrQwkKU1507WDnKeLcXa2bG7ig/s1243/scenario_detail.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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We swiftly model the scenario based on the project's requirements.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AN57wyC7EOBVT4BzKPKFdndbYfufW_x94QcPL90aAWOjJknhH1q_vsDR0W_m0eu02JGRPmymNlzrACc1_owdgTJyha5Gj6zfozX33JDJYdKfNBS5_X_39UWW3M255zj5Is7fGLg0U5PFzg_gkXQoK3DRFziGvXNaa48Jrc1MJWirKxd_rklIz3SNNw/s768/critical_project.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="768" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-AN57wyC7EOBVT4BzKPKFdndbYfufW_x94QcPL90aAWOjJknhH1q_vsDR0W_m0eu02JGRPmymNlzrACc1_owdgTJyha5Gj6zfozX33JDJYdKfNBS5_X_39UWW3M255zj5Is7fGLg0U5PFzg_gkXQoK3DRFziGvXNaa48Jrc1MJWirKxd_rklIz3SNNw/w640-h552/critical_project.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /><br />Fortunately, our environment possesses the necessary resources to accommodate this critical project seamlessly.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVpr_Z_Z6c626z4owzAIcCYxCFFAkxAVQfLEjvOJK-h39M6DTdmGjR3GZXuEF9dpdWsVUeHljqebQQF2hx_jt9a2iv6rkPhinzewyeO0gzoiKm_-Y3Jheo087uq7iBZuoXsQVFMZKaehd8DsAVg07w3ywuWdEiW13qJd7XFia75bD6Vur071V0ClYMSQ/s1245/critical_fits.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="1245" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVpr_Z_Z6c626z4owzAIcCYxCFFAkxAVQfLEjvOJK-h39M6DTdmGjR3GZXuEF9dpdWsVUeHljqebQQF2hx_jt9a2iv6rkPhinzewyeO0gzoiKm_-Y3Jheo087uq7iBZuoXsQVFMZKaehd8DsAVg07w3ywuWdEiW13qJd7XFia75bD6Vur071V0ClYMSQ/w640-h346/critical_fits.png" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p>To ensure a guaranteed reserved capacity for the critical project, we turn to the commit scenario feature. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh6m--sw5B-kUEm1a7IgBJ96FZ2uEAicO6AH8xTk4BBsZKpiWRKTUPahmicaQAVZ8C-pRdS6NO0DUEySozwGp38Lh2e1SVYWQS4sAntvSFk94JeCqtWF8GQQGFbm_coRfnrg4uqqsbf5_1nUDzcQgfwRTPFfxRTuYzFy1qcixINXDhuD-IBbKXzd3J_w/s1361/commit_scenario.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ43LFEo3W15cG-gCnjEMY3X9WCUy_kBZBMh1Cs36dw-W89NUCjQ_ZWlDCKFXM6-VDkr5UW6gqmcSx1oorpH5B68ncTQF1LsBsPwKogih3Omq310nYXo3hsrxNdfort2Kz1MYZI1YSK7iITY3F9AcVXtRG93JHEndjGqpBRAAGRTQMUCJAXCwf8msLpg/s1142/%20projected_scenarion.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="1142" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ43LFEo3W15cG-gCnjEMY3X9WCUy_kBZBMh1Cs36dw-W89NUCjQ_ZWlDCKFXM6-VDkr5UW6gqmcSx1oorpH5B68ncTQF1LsBsPwKogih3Omq310nYXo3hsrxNdfort2Kz1MYZI1YSK7iITY3F9AcVXtRG93JHEndjGqpBRAAGRTQMUCJAXCwf8msLpg/w640-h266/%20projected_scenarion.png" width="640" /></a></div> <br /><br />Now, when rerunning the initial scenario, the system intelligently informs administrators that the workload no longer fits due to considering the committed scenario's requirements, even though they have not yet materialized.<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YGKzvVUwqTDdldDDf0lnMfaYO-9D6nOQfw27OYS-iN9QWny9AwDl0eh92qSoJ19aGFZq-2uVLNP2wpRbNspyndNoEj-AK-A6nopDzSCMnrNquubh8J6xYA0qaeLeMsK6v3aepB-mvuubflQbAWepZh4XB3xhbARFKz1d5Jh88Ll8DCfc84z3SH9uuA/s1362/fail_scenario.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="1362" height="96" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9YGKzvVUwqTDdldDDf0lnMfaYO-9D6nOQfw27OYS-iN9QWny9AwDl0eh92qSoJ19aGFZq-2uVLNP2wpRbNspyndNoEj-AK-A6nopDzSCMnrNquubh8J6xYA0qaeLeMsK6v3aepB-mvuubflQbAWepZh4XB3xhbARFKz1d5Jh88Ll8DCfc84z3SH9uuA/w640-h96/fail_scenario.png" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p><br />At this pivotal juncture, administrators can explore additional scenarios, such as VM removal, adding ESXi hosts to the cluster, or even projecting a cloud migration plan, all to accommodate the requirements for the initial project.<br /></p><p> </p><p>Happy planning !!!<br /></p><br /><br />Eduardo Meirelles da Rochahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08593116792903556502noreply@blogger.com