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Log management is part of it

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Solution · VMware

VCF Operations

formerly Aria Operations

VVFVCF

The vendor calls it: VMware VCF Operations

Capacity, cost and health of the platform in one place. Since VCF 9 it is part of the platform rather than an optional add-on.

VMware Pinnacle Partner

Topics Monitoring 2.71 Automation 1.78 Virtualization 1.37

Vendors VMware 0.88

04Services

06Posts

03Capabilities

267Corpus

photograph wantedA vSphere or VCF console on a real screen at soulTec: a cluster view, a running task, an inventory tree, so the reader should recognise the UI

What it is

VCF Operations is the operational view of the platform: capacity, utilisation, cost and health of vSphere, storage and networking in one interface. Until VCF 9 the product was called Aria Operations, and before that vRealize Operations.

What VCF 9 changed

It is no longer a separately licensed add-on but part of the platform, and it takes on fleet management for the VCF instances. Anyone who worked without Aria Operations until now gets it with the upgrade.

Log management is part of it

Log management is a function of VCF Operations rather than a licence of its own, and it is included in VVF, VCF Edge and VCF. What was separately licensed as Aria Operations for Logs until VCF 9 is part of the platform now.

What we do with it

Draft, unreviewed

Moving from Aria Operations 8 to VCF Operations is the part that costs time in practice: dashboards, alerts and the permission model do not all come across.

This paragraph is a draft and nobody at soulTec has confirmed it yet. Everything above it describes the product and is checkable against the vendor.

Posts about it

VMware Aria

15 Feb 2023

VMware Aria is an intelligent multi-cloud management solution that runs applications, infrastructure and platform services from one platform with a shared data model.

Automation 1.78 Monitoring 2.71

Automating VM Shutdown triggered by USV

21 Jul 2017

So another customer had a requirement. They want their USV to trigger a script that moves all VMs from one datacenter to the other datacenter in case of a power failure.

Virtualization 1.37 Automation 1.78

VCF Operations for Logs 9.0

22 Aug 2025

You upgraded VCF Operations to 9.0, lost the link to VCF Operations for Logs, found there is no upgrade path for it, rebuilt it, and now want the connection back.

Monitoring 2.71 Cloud 1.94 +1

Monitor Cronjobs with Aria Operations

22 Feb 2024

On a professional services project the customer wanted the VMware SRM backup monitored automatically, with a warning raised if the backup job ever failed. Here is how I did it.

Monitoring 2.71

Automatically deleting VMware VM snapshots

24 Feb 2022

Automatically deleting VMware VM snapshots with vRealize Operations Manager (vROPs) is very easy to implement.

Monitoring 2.71

Monitor vSphere Supervisor and Guest Clusters with VCF Operations

26 Mar 2025

Monitoring vSphere Supervisor Cluster and Kubernetes Guest Cluster with the Kubernetes Management Pack in VCF (Aria) Operations. The Monitoring is a great alternative to prometheus and grafana.

Monitoring 2.71 Containers 2.39