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title: VMware Aria
date: 2023-02-15
author: michael-steg
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summary: VMware Aria is an intelligent multi-cloud management solution that runs applications, infrastructure and platform services from one platform with a shared data model.
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Introducing VMware Aria.

## A new perspective on multi-cloud management

### What is VMware Aria?

VMware Aria is an intelligent multi-cloud management solution that lets you deliver and run your applications, infrastructure and platform services consistently across private, hybrid and multiple clouds, from a single platform with a shared data model.

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### What VMware Aria sets out to do

VMware's goal with Aria is a single management solution for cloud-native applications and for multi-cloud, to help users handle the challenges that come with cloud-native applications and public cloud environments.

### What is new about VMware Aria?

VMware Aria offers a genuinely different perspective on multi-cloud management. It covers a set of end-to-end solutions for managing cost, performance, configuration and deployment of infrastructure and applications.

### The products, and the renaming

#### The portfolio

The VMware Aria portfolio covers a set of end-to-end solutions for managing cost, performance, configuration and deployment of infrastructure and applications.

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**VMware Aria Automation** – the complete portfolio for deployment

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**VMware Aria Operations** – everything that matters for running a large platform

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**VMware Aria Cost** – the CloudHealth offering with a new look and feel

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**VMware Aria Licensing** – various bundles across the Aria portfolio

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**VMware Skyline** – proactive support, using metadata from VMware's entire customer base

#### What each solution is now called

VMware Aria renames the existing vRealize Suite products. The changes are meant to make the portfolio easier to see through.

| Old name | New name |
| --- | --- |
| vRealize Automation | Aria Automation |
| VMware Cloud Assembly | Aria Automation Assembler |
| VMware Service Broker | Aria Automation Consumption |
| VMware Code Stream | Aria Automation Pipelines |
| VMware Cloud Templates | Aria Automation Templates |
| vRealize Orchestrator | Aria Automation Orchestrator |
| vRealize Automation SaltStack SecOps | Aria Automation Config for Secure Hosts |
| CloudHealth Secure State | Aria Automation for Secure Clouds |
| CloudHealth | Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth |
| vRealize Operations | Aria Operations |
| vRealize Log Insight | Aria Operations for Logs |
| vRealize Network Insight | Aria Operations for Networks |
| Tanzu Observability | Aria Operations for Applications |
| vRealize True Visibility Suite | Aria Operations for Integrations |
| vRealize Cloud Universal | Aria Universal Suite |
| vRealize Suite | Aria Suite |
| vCloud Suite | vCloud Suite |
| VMware Skyline | VMware Skyline |

### What VMware Aria does

#### One management solution for cloud-native applications and multi-cloud

VMware Aria gives you a single management solution for cloud-native applications and multi-cloud, so applications and infrastructure can be managed simply and efficiently.

#### End-to-end solutions for cost, performance, configuration and deployment

VMware Aria covers a set of end-to-end solutions for managing cost, performance, configuration and deployment of infrastructure and applications, so you can manage and tune your IT environments quickly.

#### Support for multi-cloud environments

VMware Aria supports multi-cloud environments and gives you one view across all of them, the on-premises data centre included.

### Conclusion

By rebranding the vRealize Suite and its neighbouring components, VMware has given its product range consistent naming. A lot of everyday IT challenges are handled simply and efficiently with these products. If you want to know more about what VMware Aria could do for your IT, [get in touch](https://soultec.ch/contact-us/), no strings attached.