VMware Kills 39 Aria Ops Management Packs – Time to DIY or Die?

Since Broadcom swallowed VMware whole, we’ve been watching the body count rise. The latest? 39 Aria Operations Management Packs sent straight to the graveyard. And no, they’re not coming back. No miracle patch. No last-minute reprieve.

What Just Got Axed?

Here’s the short version:

VMware (Broadcom now, let’s be real) has announced End of Support for 39 management packs.
Only 7 have any kind of replacement.
The official suggestion? “Use the Management Pack Builder or the Integration SDK to create your own.”

Because yeah, every sysadmin has time to become a dev now. Right?

🔧 The DIY Party Nobody Asked For

The packs that got nuked include some heavy hitters:

Citrix VAD
Microsoft Hyper-V
NetApp ONTAP
Nagios XI
Dell EMC Unity, Isilon, OpenManage
HPE OneView, 3PAR, Nimble
SolarWinds
Docker
Nutanix
Oracle EM
Even bloody Flowgate and CloudHealth (yes, those still existed)

And what’s VMware’s answer?

Build your own, champ. Here’s a hammer, some duct tape, and our SDK documentation that hasn’t been updated since vRealize was still cool.

☠️ But Wait, There’s More: No Transition At All

Some packs were just left for dead with no official replacement whatsoever:

vRealize for OpenStack
VMware Smart Assurance
Flowgate
Aria Hub
CloudHealth

If you relied on any of those, congrats — you now have a monitoring blind spot the size of Texas.

💬 Real Talk

This isn’t just pruning the tree. This is burning the orchard and handing you a bag of seeds.

VMware Aria (née vRealize) used to be one of the most extensible monitoring platforms in the ecosystem. Now it’s becoming a DIY lab project with enterprise licensing.

Seriously… this is how you lose trust.

🛑 What Should You Do?

Audit your environment — figure out what packs you’re using that are about to go bye-bye.
Prioritize replacements — if there’s a native Azure, Pure, or Dell ESA pack, grab it before it disappears too.
Decide: Build or Bail — if you don’t have dev cycles to spare, it might be time to rethink your monitoring strategy altogether.

🤬 Final Thoughts from AngrySysOps

This isn’t just “streamlining.” It’s death by a thousand paper cuts — and it’s aimed squarely at admins who actually built things that worked.

We used to monitor everything from the same dashboard. Now? It’s back to juggling a dozen consoles and praying your PowerShell script doesn’t eat itself alive.

RIP old Aria Ops.
You were bloated and buggy — but at least you were ours.

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