VMware Aria Hub is a platform that unifies data across the VMware Cloud Management services. By unifying this data, Ensemble provides visibility into your hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, as well as the applications that run on that infrastructure. VMware Aria Hub is a common data layer for VMware products. Once the integration is complete, VMware Aria Operations can create applications which are automatically discovered by VMware Aria Hub, as Business Applications.

VMware Aria Hub Object Relationship in VMware Aria Operations

The VMware Aria Hub adapter in VMware Aria Operations collects application information from VMware Aria Hub, along with the associated tiers and tier members. The tier members are vCenter Virtual Machines and AWS EC2 instances. VMware Aria Operations does not create the tier member objects, but creates a relationship with tiers after you enable the vCenter and AWS adapters. Virtual Machine and EC2 members will be in Application/Tier relationship only when the respective Cloud Accounts is added in VMware Aria Operations.

To see the relationship between the VMware Aria Hub application, tiers and tier members, from the left menu, click Environment > Business Applications. All the imported VMware Aria Hub Business Applications are listed. Click on an VMware Aria Hub Business Application to view more information, including the relationship. You cannot edit the Business Applications which VMware Aria Operations imports from VMware Aria Hub. However, any relationship change made in VMware Aria Hub is automatically reflected in the corresponding VMware Aria Operations Business Application.

Integrating the VMware Aria Hub Service

The integration of the VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Hub services happens automatically if you can access both the services.

To view the applications which are imported by the adapter, from the left menu, click Environment > Inventory > Adapter Instances > VMware Aria Hub > Adapter Instance > <Adapter_Instance>. By default, the collection cycle is 30 minutes.

Imported VMware Aria Hub Business Application Properties:

VMware Aria Operations collects the following properties from VMware Aria Hub applications:
  • Creation Time
  • Last Modification Time
  • Source

Go to the object browser and click All Objects > VMware Aria Hub Adapter. VMware Aria Operations lists all the Business Applications which are imported from VMware Aria Hub. Click on a Business Application name to see the summary page of the Business Application. Under the Metrics tab, you can see a list of properties which VMware Aria Operations collects from VMware Aria Hub for the application. The discovered VMware Aria Hub applications can leverage Synthetic Monitoring. For more details, see Configure, Enable, or Disable Synthetic Monitoring.