Aria Operations

About vRealize Operations 8.6

vRealize Operations assures hybrid cloud perfomance at minimal cost

Real-time predictive analytics and AI drive actions to automatically balance workloads and proactively avoid any contention

You can automate workload balancing and placement on

Using a real-time, forward-lookin capacity analytics engine, vRealize Operations can predict the future demand and provide actionable recommendations.

Opitons by vRealize Operations can include:

vRealize Operations uses generated alerts to notify you when objects in your environment experience problems

vRealize Operations provides transparency and visibility to resolve problems faster and efficiently

With Aria Operations, you can predict, prevent, and troubleshoot faster with actionable insights correlating metrics and logs, and unified observability from applications to infrastructure.

To ensure your environment's adherence to common requirements, ARIA operations uses compliance templates.

The following regulatory compliance templates are available:

The product UI has several navigation areas and settings

When you logged in to Aria Operations earlier, a list of menu items up appeared in the top Header and in the left navigation pane

The screenshot shows the new UI

You use vRealize Operations to connect and analyze data from the external data sources

In a new deployment, administration users are prompted to configure a cloud account to access the external data sources on the on-boarding page

You configure the content in vRealize Operations to suit your information needs using content types such as views, reports, dashboards, and widgets:

The Aria Operations administration interface provides access to selected maintenance functions apart from what the product interface supports

Tasks to be perfomed at administration UI

Nodes and Roles

Data Adapters of the Nodes Selected

The client connects to the product or administration UI with a web browser using HTTPS over port 443

The administration UI connects to the administration API to retrieve information, store information, and start actions

The product UI communicates with the controller component to retrieve information, store information, and start actions

The product UI can also connect to the administration API to perform the administrative tasks.

A cluster contain a single or multiple Aria Operations Node. The first Aria Operations node that you deploy is called primary node

The Primary node is the required initial node in a Aria Operations Cluster.

It has the following functions and characteristics

All the components of Aria Operations software stack are implemented in the primary node.

Additional node types have a subset of the components

Aria Operations supports high availability by enablinb a primary replica node for the Aria Operations primary node.

The Primary replica node receives redundant copies of data from the primary node.

The same components are installed on both the nodes

adding the primary Replica node

You can add multiple data dones simultanoeusly

About the Multinode Cluster

To enable continuous availability within Aria Operations, the witness node must be deployed in the cluster

The witness node does not collector or store data as a part of the analytics cluster

When you enable CA, you must allocate individual nodes to the fault domains using the Continuos Availability wizard

You assign the nodes by dragging them to the appropriate fault domain

The primary node is allocated to fault Domain #1 by default

Each data node add to Fault Domain #1 must have a pair in fault Domain #2 to preserve and replicate the data that is added to its peer

Yo can add a maximum of 16 data nodes including the primary node and divide them between the fault domains to create eight pairs

Before to Install the Aria Ops solution software, create the appropriate cluster design

The following parameters help you determine the best design

When you create nodes, follow the sizing guidelines:

You can use the Aria Operations sizing tool to select the most appropriate configuration for your requirments

The sizing tool provides guidelines for initial sizing and accounting for the anticipated growth and data retention policy.

For existing deployments, you can use the tool to verify that your cluster is sized appropriately

Sizing tool Recommendation Example

All nodes must perfom a successful DNS resolutions to the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the node

A static IP address and an FQDN must address the primary node and the primary replica node

All nodes in the cluster must be bidirectionally routable by the IP address or FQDN

Aria Ops support IPV6

Before you install the Aria Operations software, you must perform the prerequisite tasks

You must follow some general requirements to create a node on your environment

Download the OVF file to the local system

Use the vSphere Client to deploy the OVF template

Provide the required information for the deploy template task

Power on the virtual appliance after it is deployed

The Node is not selected during the deployment process

After install a Aria Operations node, secure the console by logging in for the first time

You have multiple vCenter Server instances in a single data center

You deploy at least one Aria Operation node and then scale out to monitor vCenter Server

You have multiple vCenter Server instances in one data center and a vCenter Server instance in each of the remote data center locations

You have multiple vCenter Server instances in one data center and a vCenter Server instance in each of the remote data center locations

After deploying the virtual appliance, you start the installation setup

New Installation Workflow

Workflow for Expading an Existing Installation

In the second stage of the Aria Operations appliance deployment, you apply the configuration settings

After you install Aria Operations, consider the following postinstallation tasks

Adding a Cloud Account

Configuring the vCenter Server Cloud Account

About the vCenter Server Adapter

About the Aria Operations Repository

Adding Solutions from VMware Marketplace

You can use the administration UI to reset the administration password and enable or disable SSH

These are solutions installed when Aria Operations is installed

The Quick Start page (home page) is the default landing page in the Aria Operations product UI

The Operations Overview dashboard provides a quick overview for the whole environment

Aria Operations Product UI Page

Top-level navigation is provided in the header, which you can find at the top of the Aria Operations interface

The interface provides the following features

Aria Operations administrators use the administration page to manage and maintain the aria operations instance

Administrators perfom any noncluster configuration in Aria Operations from the page

You can set the user interface to display in light or dark colors

You can enable the Aria Operations dark theme for the product UI from the User Preference menu

You can view the Aria Operations license information by clicking the about page

You can use Optimize Perfomance to ensure the continuous perfomance optimization of workloads

The section has several key features

You can use Optimize Capacity to assess the current state of capacity in you data centers

The section has several features

You can troubleshoot to assess the current alerts in the system and troubleshoot any problems

The section provides the following features

You can use manage configurations to configure objects effectively

You can extend monitoring to configure objects effectively

Dashboard provide a graphic representation of data and display the overall infrastructure health.

You can use different widgets and views to change the focus of information

On the Environment page, you can view the invetory of all the objects monitored by Aria Operations

Using Data sources

The Alerts tab list all the alerts generated in the Aria Operations cluster

Aria Operations administrators manage and maintain the Aria Operations instance through configure

The administrator can perform day 2 operations through configure

You start your search from the search bar

You can enter one of the listed categories followed by a string or a name

You can then search for objects in the category

Aria Operations administrator can create jobs to automate optimization actions which reclaim or rightsize VMs

The administrator set up recurring jobs, track them, and gets their report

You configure the content in Aria Operations to suit your information needs, using views, reports, dashboards, and widgets

A tag provides a way to group objects by logical function, such as department, organization, or region

A tag value provides a grouping container function

You can add one or more objects to a tag value

You can tag values similar to any other object types

you can access tags from the inventory pane on the administration page

You can use the manage tags icon to create your own and tags values

You associate an object with a tag by dragging it from the object list to the tag value

In the example, the virtual machine object named web-02 is dragged to the tag vaule named Web Server

To remove tag from an object

In the example, the object web-02 associated with the Web Server tag value is untagged

Inbuilt to the product

Associated with adapters

User-defined

Custom object group membership are of the following types

A policy is a set of rules that you define for Aria Operations to analyze and display information about the objects in your environment

You can create, modify, and administer policies to determine how Aria Operations display data in dashboards, views, and reports

A policy includes the following settins

Aria Operations Policies support the operational decision for your IT infrastructure and business units:

The Base Settings are the starting point for all policies

vSphere Solution's Default Policy is a policy that is assigned to all vSphere objects by default. The policy is automatically created when you configure the vCenter Server adapter

You must verify that the vsphere envionment conforms to you company's policies

You create default policy for your company

You must also create separate policies for the production enviornment, test, and development environment

You select a base policy from which your new custom policy can inherit settings

In the example, the TestDev Policy is created using vSphere Solution's Default Policy as the starting point

Five to set Settings

One Associate to Specific Objects

You can select properties or metrics to include in your policy so that Aria Operations can collect data from the objects in your environment

State

Instanced State

You can override definitions by enabling or disabling them

Enabling alert definitions activates alerting conditions

You can configure Time Remaining Calculations, Time Remaing, Capacity Remaining, Workload, and Maintenance Schedule in the capacity of the policy

To edit the settings of these config we need to unlock

The effective policy appears in the content pane of the selected object

You can determine how policy applies to an object

The policy with the highest priority is the effective policy for that object

To reuse content between Aria Operations deployments or back up hte custom content, use the export and import functions

You can export and import the following content

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates create a secured conenction between an client's web browser and a web server

SSL performs these functions

The certificate contains the entity's public key and other information

The certificate is digitally signed by a Certificate Authority (CA)

Aria Operations nodes are installed using self-signed certificates by default

A valid certificate signed by a trusted CA is an important component when you configure a production instance of Aria Operations

Aria Operations certificates have the following properties

Aria Operations administration UI provides options for viewing and replacing the existing certificates

When you upload a custome certificate file, the Aria Operations interface displays the summary information for all the certificates in the file

Custom certificates are used in the following cases

Generate a certificate request (CSR) to obtain a valid and signed certificate from a CA.

the generated CRS File contains the certification requests and a private key mathematically linked to the final certificate issued by the CA

Certificates that you use with the virtual appliances must be in the PEM file format

The example is a certificate signed by the Microsoft CA in your environment

The PEM file also includes the CA's own root certificate to maintain the certificate chain of trust

Certificate date

URL

Chain of Trust

A certificate error is generated if the certificate format is incorrect or it contains any incorrect information

Optimize Capacity is the second pillar on the Quick Start page

You use this feature to assess the current state of capacity across multiple data centers in a single global view

Capacity planning helps to ensure that sufficient resources are available in your environment and your infrastructure works efficiently

Capacity planning can achieve the following benefits

The capacity engine reduces costs and risks with real-time predictive capacity and cost analytics

The capacity analytics engine offers several features

Understanding the key resources concepts and their relationships helps you optmize the capacity in your environment

The capacity analytics engine computes and publishes metrics that you can find in the Capacity Analytics Generated group

The metrics help you to plan your resource use based on the consumer demand

The capacity analytics values are computed

The custom profile must be updated in the policy before the output is visible

You can find the custom profile output on the capacity tab

VM shortfall is available for clusters, dastastore, and datastore cluster objects only

VM shortfall appears only when the usable capacity is zero

You can use one of the resource capacity models in your environment

The allocation model includes the following use cases

The allocation model element determines how Aria Operations calculates the capacity when you allocate a specific amount of CPU, memory, and disk space to clusters or data store clusters

Allocation-based metrics is the total number of resources that you configure on the cluster compute resources

Is your focus on demand, allocation, or both?

Do you overallocate the CPU, memory and storage resources on your host system and VMs?

By what percentage do you overallocate resources

Do you use vSphere High Availability

Where do you place your workload types

Scenarios which we add virtual machines

Scenarios which we remove virtual machines

Deal with adding or removing ESXi hosts

Allow to see the impact of micgrating virtual machines to various Clouds

DataCenter Comparison

Optimize capacity is the second pillar on the Quick Start page

It display the total cost savings opportunity for your environment

On the initial login to the product UI, you are prompted to set the currency

Once the currency is set, you cannot change it

You can turn off the cost calculation completely from global settings

You can run the cost calculation status manually

By default, it is auto-scheduled to run at 2 PM every day

Tag Based Costing Metrics

Cost drivers are expense types used by Aria Operations to calculate the cost of your private cloud

The total private cloud cost is the sum of the cost drivers

Individual Server Cost

You optimize the performance of your datacenters according to the business and operational intents based on the business and operational intents that apply to your datacenters

Defining an Operational Intent