In a recent event in San Francisco VMware Explore, VMware a virtualization and cloud computing service provider unveiled a new family of tools, for Multi-cloud Environments called VMware Aria. It is going to be a set of tools that will make multi-cloud environments invisible to help the operational team by reducing complexities including applications, users, configurations, and associated dependencies.
In the blog, VMware revealed the complete information about this new multi-cloud tools set that includes:
- VMware Aria Automation. (formerly, vRealize Automation).
- VMware Aria Operations (formerly, vRealize Operations).
- VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly, vRealize Network Insight).
- VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly, vRealize Log Insight).
- VMware Aria Operations for Secure Clouds (formerly, CloudHealth Secure State).
- VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth (formerly, CloudHealth).
- VMware Skyline
It also includes VMware Aria Graph that provides a centralized view and control of tools including VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth, VMware Aria Operations, and VMware Aria Automation to manage multi-cloud environments. It is designed to target the challenges that the operational team handles in a multi-cloud environment.
“VMware Aria Graph provides a single source of truth that is updated in near-real time and was expressly designed for the operational challenges of cloud-native applications and environments,” said the company in an August blog.
The key features of VMware Aria Graph are-
- Capable to scale hundreds of millions of nodes
- Provide relationships to understand dependencies
- Shows root cause analysis
- Captures change events whenever they happen
- Enables laying data from third-party tools
- Provides a single source-of-truth
- Creates a development-friendly multi-cloud interface
The VMware Aria Graph can be accessed through VMware Aria Hub which is still in its Beta version.
Aria has taken over the previous offerings of cloud management by VMware named vRealize, and the tools included in vRealize for automation, operations, operations for networks, and operations for logs are replaced by the tools included in Aria.
“VMware Aria’s API-first approach enables developers, SREs, and Platform Engineering teams to pull relevant, correlated data from any source for quicker application analysis and debugging, while providing complete visibility into the cost, performance, and configuration of applications and workloads across cloud environments for Platform Ops, IT Ops, and Cloud Ops teams.”, noted Purnima Padmanabhan in the blog.
