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How to use Alerts to manage resource capacity, performance, and availability in
VMware Aria Automation

As a cloud administrator, you need to know when
VMware Aria Automation
 capacity, performance, and availability are becoming problematic so that you can proactively react before users begin to run out of resources.
You can display a range of alerts provided by the associated
VMware Aria Operations
 application. Alerts are available for
vSphere
 and
VMware Cloud on AWS
 resource objects. Use information in alerts to modify the resources and deployments that you manage, or share that information with your team so they can modify objects that they manage.
To examine and act on project deployments that you should consider optimizing, see How to use Alerts to optimize deployments in VMware Aria Automation.
Alerts are currently available for
vSphere
 and
VMware Cloud on AWS
 resource objects only. The
Alerts
 tab is only available if access to
VMware Aria Operations
 is configured.
The
VMware Aria Automation
 alerts threshold values are set in
VMware Aria Operations
. Some
VMware Aria Automation
 alerts are currently predefined. Alerts notifications are also set in
VMware Aria Operations
. For information about setting alert definitions and configuring notifications, see the
VMware Aria Operations
product documentation.

Prerequisites

About
VMware Aria Operations
 and resource alerts

VMware Aria Operations
 collects health, usage, and other metrics for the same infrastructure resources and deployments that you manage in
VMware Aria Automation
. By integrating
VMware Aria Automation
 with
VMware Aria Operations
, that monitored data is made available to you in
VMware Aria Automation
 by using the
Alerts
 tab in the
Automation Assembler
 main menu .
The alerts data provided by
VMware Aria Operations
 includes heath and risk threshold concerns for cloud templates, deployments, organizations, and projects. It also contains information about deployments that can be optimized, based on the owner being contacted by an action taken on the cloud zone
Insights
 tab. For related information, see How to use Alerts to optimize deployments in VMware Aria Automation.
Alert details for each deployment include:
  • Project name
  • Deployment name (and link to the deployment) that contain resources that can be optimized
  • Suggested actions
  • Potential cost savings from reclamation and optimization
  • Total number of virtual CPUs used by the deployment
  • Total amount of RAM memory used by the deployment
  • Total amount of storage used by the deployment
  • Virtual machines in the deployment that are recommended for reclamation and optimization, including resource name, idle machines, powered off machines, oversized and undersized machines, underutilized machines, and machine snapshots
By using the
Contact project owners
 option on the cloud zone Insights dashboard, you can see a summary of all projects that have reclaimable capacity (CPU, memory, and storage) in the cloud zone and provide an alert to some or all of the project owners.

Procedure

You can display alerts threshold information about the resources that you manage by using filtering options on the
Alerts
 page. Alerts data is supplied by your associated
VMware Aria Operations
 application. Suggested actions are provided for each alert.
You can also select a deployment from the
Deployments to review
 section to open and optimize that deployment.
  1. From within the
    Automation Assembler
     service, click the
    Alerts
     tab in the main menu.
  2. To control the how alerts are displayed, experiment with the available filters. For example, select the
    Resources
     option from the filters drop-down menu.
  3. To display alerts and suggested actions for those alerts, use quick filter options in the selector panel.
    • Display alerts about cloud zone resources.
      VMware Aria Operations
       can monitor time remaining, capacity remaining, reclaimable capacity, and so on.
    • Display alerts about virtual machine resources.
      The majority of virtual machine alerts pertain to on/off status, latency, and so on.
    • Display alerts about deployment resources.
      The deployment alerts pertain to reclaimable resources and right-sizing.
    • Display alerts about project resources.
      The project alerts pertain to reclaimable resources and allocation limits.
  4. Explore other filter types and their quick filtering options to further control the list of alerts.
    • Use the
      Impacts
       quick filters of health, risk, and efficiency.
    • Use the
      Severity
       quick filters of critical, immediate, warning, and information.
    • Use the
      Status
       quick filters of active, cancelled, and dismissed.
    • Use the
      Subtype
       filters of availability, performance, and capacity.
    • Use the
      Type
       quick filters of application, hardware, infrastructure, storage, and network.
  5. Take any needed actions based on alerts data and suggestions.

Next steps

To learn about other actions that are available, see How to use Alerts to optimize deployments in VMware Aria Automation.
You can also display capacity
Insights
 for cloud zone-based resources in projects that you manage. For information about using
VMware Aria Operations
- supplied
Insights
 data in
VMware Aria Automation
, see How to use the Insights dashboard to monitor resource capacity and notify project owners in VMware Aria Automation.

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