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If you have read in my previous article , back in Aug 2024, that a number of Aria Operations Management packs will be retired from general support on 1st Oct 2024. Without the build in management packs provided, what can you do next? Aria Operations does come with a Management Pack Building which many are not aware. I like to share from this article  that I came across that illustrate how easy to just pull the wanted metric that you need to build your own dashboard. If those existing dashboard from management pack that is end of life, you can then see what metrics are been pulled and customize your own to keep moving forward. Alternatively, you can seek any system integrator to help build such dashboard easily if you have no such engineer in house to help.

Coming 1st Oct 2024, the Aria Operations Management Packs will be end of general support (EoGS). Here is the KB . The affected management packs are as follow: vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Integrated OpenStack vRealize Operations Federation Management Pack VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for CloudHealth VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Flowgate VMware Aria Operations Management Pack for Aria Hub VMware vRealize Operations Management Pack for VMware Smart Assurance Aria Operations Management Pack for Aria Operations for Apps Aria Operations Management Pack for VMware Tanzu Application Service Aria Operations Management Pack for Microsoft Hyper-V Aria Operations Management Pack for NetApp FAS/AFF Aria Operations Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM Aria Operations Management Pack for Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops Aria Operations Management Pack for Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Aria Operations Management Pack for HPE OneView Aria Operations Manag...

If you are not aware, vSphere 6.0 is coming to the end of general support on 12th Mar 2020. If you are still running 6.0 or below, it is a good time to quickly planned for an upgrade to at least version 6.5 or 6.7 since it got extended for a full 5 years from the day of release for vSphere 6.5 which is 15th Nov 2021. You can refer to the KB . Once the end of general support, what this means is, there will be no new patches to fix bugs. You will only get support based on what is recorded in KBs. Also things without any engineering effort. You will only receive technical guidance before the end of support. Here is a good article to understand the different support after End of Life of a product. Update 14th Mar 2020 Softwares release with vSphere 6.0 that are ending general support are as follows: Center Server 6.0 vCenter Update Manager 6.0 ESXi 6.0 Site Recovery Manager 6.0 and 6.1 vSAN 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 vSphere Data Protection 6.0 and 6.1 vSphere Replication 6.0 and 6...