We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest release of VMware Aria Operations which is now part of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.2
This VMware Aria Operations release represents a significant step in the unification of VMware Aria Operations within VCF, simplifying our diagnostics capabilities, and improving cloud security and compliance.
Unified Cloud Operations
Infrastructure and Cloud Admins have traditionally had to work with the separate management and operational capabilities of the various components within the VCF stack, a less than ideal user experience. VMware Aria Operations introduces a new console experience that unifies these capabilities, providing admins with the ability to configure, manage, and operate their VCF stack as a single, fully integrated product.
Figure 1: New VMware Aria Operations Console Experience
Some of the major developments to unify cloud operations in VMware Aria Operations include:
- New VMware Aria Operations console experience
- Improved capacity projections leveraging customized metrics
- Single Sign-On across vCenter, VMware Aria Operations, VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator
- Improved scaling with support for more than a million objects by the VMware Aria Operations cluster
- vSAN Max support with overall health score display
Simplified VCF Diagnostics
Today, our customers are using a lot of different VMware tools to identify and fix diagnostic issues in their private cloud environment. Multiple tools come with their own challenge of lifecycle management. Multiple and repeated endpoint configurations have an impact on the environment performance and customers take longer to realize value from our products.
Figure 2: New Diagnostics capability
With the new release we will be converging the diagnostics capabilities currently delivered by various products and services such as VMware Skyline Advisor, VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics and VMware Aria Operations for Logs to more easily and quickly:
- Curate findings and recommendations for faster remediation of issues.
- Deliver security findings based on VMware Security Advisories (VMSAs).
- Provide insights into key operational actions like workload provisioning, vMotion, and snapshots.
- Upload log bundles for faster support engagement.
Improved Cloud Security and Compliance
Effective governance and compliance are critical aspects of running any infrastructure, requiring compliance with regulatory standards and hardening guidelines while reducing overall complexity and helping ensure security. The new Aria Operations release helps provide a better overall compliance posture for your infrastructure and ensures that posture is maintained. Cloud admins are quickly made aware of any changes to the VCF infrastructure, reducing the time to take remedial action, if required.
Figure 3: Audit Events
Some of the key compliance and security announcements include:
- New Audit Events tab showing audit events across vSphere, vSAN, and NSX resources.
- New Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) compliance Management Pack for managing compliance of VCF resources with the Cloud Security Alliance Framework.
- Upgrades to the existing CIS and DISA compliance Management Packs.
This VMware Aria Operations release is a key milestone in delivering on the promise we made to our customers at the time of the acquisition by Broadcom to further simplify and unify VMware Cloud Foundation. As announced earlier this year, VMware Aria Operations will now only be available as a part of VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation.
Learn More
- Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2
- Announcing VMware vSphere Foundation 5.2
- VMware Aria Operations Release Notes, VMware Aria Operations for Logs Release Notes
- VMware by Broadcom Dramatically Simplifies Offer Lineup and Licensing Model
- Dramatic Simplification of VMware Aria as part of VMware Cloud Foundation
