Life cycle management design details the design decisions covering the life cycle management of VMware Aria Operations for Logs.

Life cycle management of VMware Aria Operations for Logs involves the process of performing patch updates or upgrades to the VMware Aria Operations for Logs cluster.

In this validated solution, life cycle management of VMware Aria Operations for Logs is performed by VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

Table 1. Design Decision on Life Cycle Management of VMware Aria Operations for Logs

Decision ID

Design Decision

Design Justification

Design Implication

ILA-VAOL-LCM-001

Use VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to perform the life cycle management of VMware Aria Operations for Logs in each VMware Cloud Foundation instance.

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle manages the product binaries and VMware Aria Operations for Logs upgrades.

  • You must deploy VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle by using SDDC Manager.

  • VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle manages patches, updates, and hot fixes for VMware Aria Operations for Logs.