VMware Cloud Foundation Automation
The VMWare Aria Plugin Extension allows you to easily integrate VMWare Aria Workflows and blueprints with your existing enterprise workload automation solution. Whether you use Aria Workflows and Blueprints simply build your workflows and allow your enterprise workload automation solution to manage the scheduling of these functions. You are instantly inheriting the advanced capabilities of your enterprise solution to deliver your digital transformation quicker and more successfully. By extending your existing enterprise automation to VMWare Aria Workflows and blueprints you maintain end-to-end visibility, regain centralized command and control, alerting, SLA management, reporting and auditing.
Benefits and Use Cases
- Automate infrastructure lifecycle and operational tasks by embedding Aria jobs into enterprise-wide processes.
- Schedule and trigger Aria automation blueprint deployments to provision infrastructure resources and execute Aria workflows as part of end-to-end automation pipelines with real-time monitoring.
- Minimize manual intervention and ensure reliable, repeatable execution with built-in retry, polling, and failure controls.
Example Use Case: Infrastructure Provisioning and Operations
Fully automate the deployment of a new application version, apply critical server patches, and validate the system across multiple environments.
Automic Features
- Run Workflows and Deploy Blueprints
- Monitor and manage the Workflows and Blueprints
- Retrieve processing log for problem diagnosis
- Alert on failure of Workflows and Blueprints Jobs processing or if it is late
- Create dependencies between Workflows and Blueprints Jobs objects
- Incorporate Workflows and Blueprints Jobs in existing enterprise automation workflows including dependency enforcement