Using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, you can select a product binary to use each VMware Aria Suite product.

You can download binaries outside of VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle and make them available on the NFS path.

Procedure

  1. From the My Services dashboard, click the Lifecycle Operations service.
  2. Click Settings and navigate to Binary Mapping > Product Binaries.
  3. Click Add Binaries.
  4. Select the location type.
    • Local - You can map the binaries to the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle locally downloaded copy.
    • NFS - You can map to a downloaded product binary with products dependent on the product binary location.
    Note: The automatic product OVA mappings are mapped based on the check sum of the binary files. When you select all the OVA files in the NFS share and try to map the product binaries, then it takes long time to map and the data disk might fill faster. NFS represents the local where the OVA files are copied in the NFS shared drive, user should provide the NFS location in the format, NFS-IP: <nfs hostname/ip>:<folder path>/x/y/z. For example, 10.11.12.134:/path/to/folder.
  5. Enter the location of the Product Binary to use in the Base Location text box, and click Discover.
  6. Select the Product Binary file from the Product Binary list.
  7. Click Add.
  8. You can also view the list of Patches available for the products.
    1. Click Check Patches Online.
    2. To upload patches, click UPLOAD.
    Note: You can now delete the unsupported product binaries which are not in use. To delete the binaries, click Delete Unsupported Binaries, select the binaries, and then click Delete All.