SvSAN & VMware - vSphere Aria (Formerly vRealize Operations)

This article is intended for administrators wishing to configure vSphere Aria (vRealize) to monitor an SvSAN storage environment. 

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Information

VMware Aria is an intelligent multi-cloud management solution that enables you to consistently deploy and operate your apps, infrastructure, and platform services across private, hybrid, and multiple clouds from a single platform with a common data model. It provides visibility into the entire tech stack, including all physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure components. Provides a set of end-to-end solutions for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and applications. Expressly designed for the operational challenges of cloud-native applications and public cloud environments, VMware Aria truly delivers a wholly new perspective on multi-cloud management. 

Preparing Your environment for Aria Deployment, VMware video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_5QkNeZ6Xg

Installation of Aria, for performance metrics

Select type of installation. The process will vary based on the installation selected.

In this example New installation was utilized.

select Next

Enter administrator account credentials

select Next

Choose a certificate, use default or install a certificate

select Next

Provide a node name and NTP Server address

select Next

select the desired availability for your organization. In this example this step was skipped.

select Next

add additional nodes, if needed. In this example this step was skipped.

select Next

select Finish

Start VMware Aria

Add any cloud Proxy information

Support tab to load or view support files

Add AD/LDAP users if desired. In this example the local administrator was used.

select YES to start Aria operations

The status of cluster will take several minutes to populate dependent upon the size of the environment.

Log into Aria

Aria Configuration wizard will start. select Next.

Accept License Agreement

Select License Model

Select if desired to join the VMware Customer Experience Program

Select Next to complete configuration

Aria Operations Welcome screen will display, select integrations.

Select Accounts > All

Select vCenter

Add vCenter credentials

Verify vCenter credential and select add

Add vCenter, select ADD

Added vCenter will shown, select vCenter to manage, by selecting vCenter hyperlink

Open enviroments tab>Object Browser and select your Data Center

Select the Datastore for information

Under Visualize select view to view performance of datastores, by selecting the relevant object.

Information for Datastore will be populated, this may take a few minutes if this is the first time running Aria.

Performance and information from datastore - DS1.4TB-NVME2-S-6.

See Also

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