We’re happy to announce that the VMware Aria Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.4 is now accessible within the VMware Market! It helps the most recent VMware Aria Operations variations and extends the prevailing metric assortment in compliance with VMware Sovereign Cloud. The Administration Pack is offered for obtain right here.

VMware vRealize Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.4 helps these product variations:

• VMware Cloud Director Availability 4.6.x or later
• VMware Cloud Director 10.3.x or later
• VMware Aria Operations – 8.10.x or later
• VMware Chargeback (former vRealize Operations Tenant App (TA)) – 8.10.x or later

The improve course of hasn’t modified with the brand new model of the VMware Aria Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability. 

A direct improve is supported from variations 1.2.x and 1.3. You will discover all of the steps within the Set up, Improve, and Use Information.

Notice: In the course of the course of, it is very important test the Reset Default Content material checkbox earlier than importing the PAK file so solely the related content material will likely be in place after the improve is completed.

VMware Aria Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.4 introduces a number of important enhancements in comparison with what was accessible within the earlier model of the Administration Pack.

vCenter Websites Collections

Equally to the Cloud Director websites, vCenter clouds operating VMware Cloud Director Availability can now be registered and have their website and replication metrics collected. Then, they are often visualized on the pre-configured VCDA Websites Well being dashboard, VCDA Incoming VM Replications View, VCDA Incoming VM Replications Report shipped with the Administration Pack, or any customized dashboard, view, or report. The metrics can even develop into the trigger for alerts to be generated when they’re added to the default coverage and activated. All alerts added by this Administration Pack are disabled by default.

If a number of websites of each varieties are registered with the identical VMware Aria Operations occasion, they’ll all seem on the VCDA Websites Well being dashboard.

Cloud Director Cloud to On-Premises Replication Monitoring

The brand new Standing > Path property permits the straightforward identification of the vacation spot of every replication. It additionally allows gathering details about the Cloud to On-Premises replications.

Now, these are additionally a part of the VMware Aria Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability 1.4 assortment course of, and the related metrics for them can be found in VMware Aria Operations for monitoring in addition to in VMware Chargeback for billing functions. 

They’re accessible within the views and stories however not within the VCDA Websites Well being dashboard.

Notice: All Cloud to On-Premises replications are reported to make use of the * (Any) Storage Coverage because the On-Premises website shouldn’t be registered, and their precise one can’t be obtained.

Suggestions

As an enchancment to the troubleshooting course of, this new model of the Administration Pack contains alert suggestions. Now, every generated alert associated to the VMware Cloud Director Availability objects has one or a number of recommendations on how one can resolve the difficulty. 

That is supposed to supply correct steerage and shorten the decision time.

New Metrics

Together with all of the metrics associated to vCenter websites and the replications owned by them, there are just a few extra newly added website metrics.

For instance, Certificates Expiration Remaining Days and CEIP Enabled required for VMware Sovereign Cloud are collected for every website, whereas RPO Violation (Minute(s)) is gathered per replication and signifies its RPO violation period of time in minutes.

Abstract

The brand new model of the VMware Aria Operations Administration Pack for Cloud Director Availability covers extra use circumstances, enriches the metric assortment, and simplifies the troubleshooting course of. 

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