We are glad to announce that VMware Aria Universal Suite (formerly vRealize Cloud Universal) is generally available as of April 6, 2023. The VMware Aria Universal Suite (AUS) is a SaaS management suite that seamlessly brings together automation, operations, and log analytics capabilities to cloud services providers with a single license. Combining a host of VMware Aria products for automation, operations, log analytics, cost optimization, security, and compliance, this empowers IT teams to federate management across cloud deployments. With greater flexibility users can manage cloud environments as SaaS, with the added benefit of being able to manage on-prem as needed.
AUS, like other SaaS offerings provided by VMware, is provisioned and is subscription-enabled through VMware Cloud Partner Navigator (CPN), VMware’s multi-cloud unified service-delivery platform for Cloud Services Providers. Using Cloud Partner Navigator, they can provide their customer organizations with fully managed or self-managed monitoring services. This enables IT teams to seamlessly move and monitor workloads across deployments as per the evolving business demands with a consistent operating model.
Cloud Management Challenges
Today, businesses are focusing more on: IT modernization, accelerated innovation, and digital transformation and are increasingly turning to cloud services providers to deliver optimal operations and management services. Managing large, complex heterogeneous and hybrid environments is always challenging and service providers need to continuously deliver on the SLAs to be competitive and grow. Managing multiple deployments requires multiple management products/ tools and associated licenses which by itself becomes challenging to manage and keep track of the services/ license usage resulting in expenses.
Unified Cloud Management with VMware Aria Universal Suite
Figure 1: Unified Cloud Management
Unified Monitoring
VMware Aria Universal Suite assists cloud services providers with a unified cloud management experience and delivers enterprise grade cloud monitoring and management services. With a single license that entitles the service provider to both SaaS and on-prem versions of VMware Aria products for automation, operations, log analytics, cost optimization, and security and compliance. This relives the user of managing multiple licenses and delivers the services as a package that can be published or offered to the end customers as need be. The SaaS management console offers federation of IT services using a SaaS-based catalog across multi-cloud endpoints
Operational Consistency
AUS enables cloud providers monetize services without having to re-skill and re-tool and deliver a single consistent operating model to provision, optimize, and govern across complex multi-cloud environments.
Agile, Scalable & Efficient
Available as a service, AUS delivers reduced operational overhead, automatic updates, fixes and upgrades and faster access to new features and innovation.
With the ability to manage subscription licenses, analyze usage and determine present and future subscription requirements to scale as needed with the pay-as-you-grow model.
How to purchase Aria Universal Suite?
VMware Aria Universal Suite is available to our partners through the Cloud Services Provider – SaaS route to market. The solution is available in three versions viz, Standard, Advance & Enterprise that offer different levels of management capabilities and is priced on a “per core basis.”
Figure 2: VMware Aria Universal Suite editions
First the Partner decides on the required edition. Second is to sign a VMware Aria Universal Suite commit contract with a VMware Aggregator. Partner then commits to VMware on a list price (MSRP) spend to obtain a volume and discount for their purchases.
You can refer the pricing handbook for more details.
Let’s quickly see how providers can onboard tenants to AUS services and a quick glimpse of the solution
Service providers can access the services through the VMware Cloud Partner Navigator portal. The CPN dashboard renders, based on the purchase, the available services for provisioning. Watch how to subscribe AUS through CPN.
We’ve considered an Enterprise subscription for the demo, so we see the complete stack available. The top 3 components constitute Automation; Operations and Logs respectively.
Service providers can publish/ onboard selected services to specific customers as per their needs. You can watch the services onboarding demo here.
The CPN dashboard renders, based on the purchase, the available services for provisioning. We’ve considered an Enterprise subscription for the demo, so we see the complete stack available. The top 3 components constitute Automation; Operations and Logs respectively.
Figure 3: Services available on AUS
Service providers can ‘Launch’ these services to the desired tenants by sending them a token key to onboard.
Service providers can view the below dashboard, that provides a holistic view of the deployments and usage.
Figure 4 : AUS dashboard
The dashboard broadly offers Alerts, Usage, Product and Environment views. The dashboard broadly shows:
- Alerts or notifications on license expiry, inactive licenses and so on.
- The average usage of core per month – collectively of all the products and services deployed.
- The usage of products – Automation/ Operation / Logs.
- The on prem and cloud endpoint usage of each serviced product.
For more information
Please visit our website for more information on the product. You can also visit the documentations page for more details. Should you need more assistance, connect with us on our slack channel or write to us.
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Originally posted on April 7, 2023 @ 3:14 pm
