🚨 VMware by Broadcom has withdrawn support for some Management Packs in the VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (VMware Aria Operations) solution! 🚨
If you use VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (VMware Aria Operations) to monitor your IT infrastructure, you need to know that out of 39 plugins, only7 have a successor. The others you’ll have to create yourself – which can be time-consuming and require specialized skills. 😟
We offer: 🔧 Ready-to-use plug-ins that our customers are already using successfully ⚙️ Services to create new Management Packs to replace those withdrawn by VMware. With our solutions, you’ll not only regain peace of mind, but also get the most out of VMware Cloud Foundation Operations (VMware Aria Operations)! 💪
Why it’s worth it:
VMware Aria Operations replaces multiple monitoring systems
Available with every VMware subscription
Monitor logs, metrics, events and business services
As a VMware Premier Partner, Indevops also provides advanced plug-ins such as:
INDEVOPS Data Center Inventory Management for Cloud Operations with Uptime DC
INDEVOPS Application Observability for Aria and Flopsar
Why Didn’t I Know About This Sooner? Aria and Its Unique Features
At INDEVOPS, we aim high but keep our feet on the ground. We’ve been specializing in the Aria Suite, particularly Aria Operations, for nearly 7 years. And for those 7 years, when we’ve talked about how fantastic this tool is and how unique its capabilities are, every time our listeners’ eyes widen in amazement: “Why didn’t I know about this sooner?”.
Let me remind you that Aria Operations, commonly referred to by us as #AROPS, is a tool for analytics in monitoring (#AIOPS, or #MLOps), for comprehensive monitoring, performance management, and optimization of IT environments in data centers. AROPS, together with Aria Operations for Logs and plugins and agents, allows you to collect from everything you can imagine, from a rack cabinet in a data center to the inside of an application (yes, yes, that’s also possible).
At the beginning of their journey with Aria, customers have difficulty fully understanding its potential uses. We have our own way of configuring it to enable success in the shortest possible time, so our story about how we do it is different from VMware’s.
How do we present the collected information and what does it mean?
The key is to divide the entire IT stack into layers: data center, servers, networking, #storage, #middleware, applications, and access.
We present the layers as “health” circles, as well as heatmaps of objects that allow you to quickly determine their state.
The layers are divided into business services so that business owners and operators only see their own service.
What do we put in each “circle”?
A “circle” is a group of objects that make up a given layer or business service.
The “circle” has a “%” – expressing the health of all the objects inside it.
In this way, we know whether a business service or service layer, or an entire layer in the data center is.
Here’s a separate story about business services:
because universal metrics allow them to be effectively monitored immediately,
there is no need to calculate complicated SLAs,
it is easy to identify the components of a business service.
How do we tune alarms, which reduces their number by 45% at the start?
Thanks to our experience, we have a ready-made recipe to prevent you from being flooded with alarms and notifications.
We won’t give you a ready-made recipe here.
We treat each case individually.
And then all the “little things”:
How do we configure monitoring robots?
How do we monitor services?
How do we query application portals from outside?
How do we check certificates and much more?
How do we use agents optimally?
Lately, the presentation of automation combined with monitoring has been a hit:
How to trigger automatic actions when the disk is full?
How to collect reports from domain systems into one place?
It’s great because our presentations are lively and customers ask specific questions, they know what they are looking for and what matters to them, e.g.:
What else can I connect to monitor?
How do the metrics work?
How to build a clear and functional #dashboard?
In answering these and other questions, and at every stage of such a conversation, we support ourselves with real-life examples. This is very important because then the customer has a chance to imagine and place every detail.
The icing on the cake is always a story about our own management and content packs. Yes, yes, we write our own management packs (more on that soon ).
At the end, the potential customer is left with their mouth open.
For the most curious ones, we can provide documentation.
And for the biggest skeptics, we have a reference visit.
Everything you need to make a customer happy.
Write to us about Aria Operations and other topics related to analytics in monitoring, orchestration and automation.
Do you want to implement it in your environment, or do you want to monitor a specific element in your data center? Let us know.
This text was inspired by a visit to a client and a note taken by our engineer. Unfortunately, I won’t write which one, because the sensitivity of this information does not allow it. This visit, the first in a long time to a new potential customer, who was left with his mouth open.
On the #RolandGarros courts the competition has started, and there was no shortage of tennis in the capital either. Thanks to the organizer IT Solution Factor, the ITSF CUP 2024 tournament began in May.
You know that #tenis, is my great passion, so when such an opportunity arose I did not hesitate for a moment. 😊
Taking part in a tennis game at the highest level is quite a treat for me. 😊 Gathered all the “tennis elite” of the industry #IT, so I decided to participate as well 😊
From my perspective, I can say that the high level and high temperature squeezed the last sweat out of me. It was an intense time, plus my first singles tournament. First time on #Legia hard courts and my first participation in ITSF #CUP.
The experience was great because of the great organization of the tournament from registration to the performance itself. IT participants understood each other perfectly, which further created a memorable atmosphere.
Thank you for the opportunity to participate and prove myself, and to Fellows who continue to play I wish you every success, not only on the court.
Thanks to the kindness of #ITSolutionFactor, I’m also sharing some great photos from the #event, and I wish everyone watching a great time. At least as much fun as I had on the court 😉 .
Photos still pre-May, but the mood was already setting for this May time. 😊
#Mountains.
My great passion and always an amazing adventure. Every time I hit the road, all I think about is what’s in front of me. Completely the same as before starting any new project in INDEVOPS. 😊
This time Babia Gora conquered! Beautiful views, tranquility and even get tired.
My people at Indevops say that the mountains and tenis the only moments that are able to distract me from work. 😉 hmmm…I’ll think about it tomorrow. 😊
Fact, the head in the mountains rests like nowhere else. There is time and space to clear it and lose yourself in nature, phenomenal views. Staying a while alone with your own thoughts.
Overcoming one’s own limitations or weaknesses, because, as Terentius used to say, “Homo sum et nil humanum, a me alienum esse puto.” 🙂
Active rest, fatigue and great satisfaction. Moments when I forget about projects, tenders, because I know that clients will be taken care of. Already the hashtag#Indevops team will take care of that.
As always, there is a lot going on in our world, because as many of you know work is also my passion. The big sales topics are getting finalized, we are taking off in EU projects, well, and we are pushing hard our new venture #Sarkan.
Our #sales team has grown significantly, as we have three new account managers, that is, with Kaśka Katarzyna Ocalewska (who has been at Indevops for almost a year now) a total of four strong people Barbara Brandon, Jaroslaw Matusiak, Simon Haly and me. 😊
You know or not, but #monitoring, #orchestration have no secrets for us, because we are strongly supported by the #OPS team headed by Marcin Rzepa. Actually for me they have no secrets at all, but that’s a story for another story. 😊
As for #Sarkan, you can also already read a lot about it, go to our website sarkan.io, which I am mega proud of.
I don’t like to brag, but Ewa Szymczak pressures me 😊 so I’m bragging because I’ve already gathered a lot of positive words from you on this topic.
🦎 Sarkan.io
See who hasn’t been. Write if you have questions: to me or Simon Haly. We’ll be happy to meet and chat.
Well, but in order not to miss the May Day,
As every year, Easter encourages us to take a moment of respite,
To gaze at the signs of spring,
To reflect on what is new, on what is coming to life.
At Indevops, we will also celebrate!
Each in our own way, as we like.
We will carelessly give ourselves up to blissful laziness or enter the family hustle with a bang.
We also wish you to get lost in the celebration, as your heart dictates,
To be here and now!
Maybe according to Polish tradition,
With cheesecake, mazurek, egg and żurek.
Or in complete opposition,
In a hat under the palm tree.
