Blog Date: June 2025

Aria Suite Life Cycle Manager has been renamed to VCF Fleet Management, and no longer has it’s own accessible UI.

VCF Operations, formally Aria Operations, will now be your go to place to manage the lifecycle of Operations, Logs, Automation, and Network Operations. This will all be done through a new section on the left navigation menu, called Fleet Management.

VMware Identity Manager/Workspace One Access finally has a successor, Identity Broker, that will be configurable through VCF Operations Fleet Management.

New capabilities are also being baked into Fleet Management that will allow Cloud engineers to manage certificates, and more capabilities will become available in the 9.1 release.

Passwords will also be another administration task that can be done through Fleet Management.

VCF Operations is becoming the center of the Private Cloud Universe to manage VCF. If this is any indication on what’s to come, I can only image that the SDDC manager interface will eventually become less and less relevant.

I for one am happy that the Aria Suite LCM is being sunset, and will eventually be fully integrated into VCF Operations under the Fleet management banner. It is unfortunate however, that remnants of it still remain as a headless server. I would have rather preferred the BU to do the job correctly, instead of this half-baked, “we’ll get it all next time” approach. All to reach those hard deadlines I suppose.