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Howto customize the Aria Automation landing page

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On February 25, 2023

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There are two options to customize Aria Automation start page:

  • Common title, and landing page title and content
  • Image

To change the title and content text, we login the Aria Auto VA using the root account.

Then we navigate into the folder /opt/tarballs/landing-ui/assets/i18n, where a couple of language files are stored in JSON format, e.g. en.json.

Simply adjust the content of these files as required and save each file.

To change the image on the landing page, we again login the Aria Auto VA using the root account.

Then we navigate into the folder /opt/tarballs/landing-ui/assets/img, where the landing page image is stored in SVG format. You can upload your own SVG file here, it must be called welcome-intro-01.svg and saved with file system permissions of 664.

Both actions must be performed on all nodes in a cluster. No restart of any service is required.

🏆 vExpert 2023 Awards Announcement

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On February 21, 2023

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Happy to be selected as a vExpert again!

🏆 vExpert 2023 Awards Announcement

Thank you to everyone who applied for vExpert and to the vExpert PROs for managing the voting process, it’s a lot of work! We are pleased to announce the list of 2023 vExperts. You can visit the vExpert Directory to see the list and profiles of each vExpert… Continued here.

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Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance 8.0.0 to VMware Cloud Director

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On December 5, 2022

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Recently, I needed to deploy VCSA 8.0.0 in a VMware Cloud Director environment, which initially ended up with the following cryptic error message when trying to import the VCSA OVA file from the installer ISO into a VCD vApp template:

Error: Validation failed for the OVF file you provided: Fatal: Line/char 578/96: cvc-minInclusive-valid: Value ‘-100’ is not facet-valid with respect to minInclusive ‘0’ for type ‘unsignedShort’.

Although not officially supported by VMware, I came up with the following solution: Replace the mentioned value with a valid one in the OVF file as an unsigned short data type cannot have a negative value, i.e. it must be in the range of 0 to 65535. Thus, we’ll simply remove the sign from the value and store it as “100” in the OVF file.

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A closer look at VMware Aria

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On November 11, 2022

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VMware Aria was announced during this year’s VMware Explore US General Session, and it of course also featured sessions in VMware Explore EMEA. Time to recap what it is all about:

“VMware Aria is a multi-cloud management portfolio that provides a set of end-to-end solutions for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and cloud-native applications across any cloud.”

The brand title “Aria” was chosen to describe a piece for voice. That piece could be an instrumental accompaniment or be solo, and is usually part of a longer work, like an opera. Sing with one Voice.

The new Aria portfolio adds new solutions such as Aria Hub, Aria Guardrails, Aria Migration, and Aria Business Insight, but also consists of the former vRealize Suite products vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vRealize Log Insight, and vRealize Network Insight. It also adds vRealize True Visibility Suite and CloudHealth Secure State. Further, VMware Aria complements VMware Tanzu by including Tanzu Observability by Wavefront.

In a nutshell, the Aria portfolio consists of the following:

  • Aria Hub and Aria Graph
  • Aria Cost
  • Aria Operations
  • Aria Automation
  • Aria Guardrails
  • Aria Migration
  • Aria Business Insights

Additionally, VMware Skyline is included in the VMware Aria portfolio.

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Disable NSX-T password expiration

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On October 15, 2022

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In my home lab, I want to deactivate the password expiration of the NSX-T local management user accounts on both, NSX-T Manager and Edges. There are three local users: root, admin, and audit. The default password expiration is set to 90 days.

This short post documents how to disable the passwords of the three local users.

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