As announced during the VMware Explore 2024 events, Broadcom has made the decision to discontinue the Aria branding, which was still in its early stages of adoption. Users were just beginning to familiarize themselves with the tools under the Aria nomenclature. However, following the acquisition, a different path has been chosen. You would notice that even other products are shuffled and recategorized. Read more about it in this blog VMware End Of Availability of Perpetual Licensing and SaaS Services – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog
Let’s see the new nomenclature for the VMware toolsets, of which I am also acquiring knowledge in the process. I am sure, this list will grow over time.
| Old Names | New Names |
|---|---|
| VMware Aria Automation | VMware Cloud Foundation Automation |
| VMware Aria Operations | VMware Cloud Foundation Operations |
| VMware Aria Operations for Networks | VMware Cloud Foundation Operations for Networks |
| VMware Aria Operations for Logs | Log Management |
| VMware Aria Automation Config | VCF Salt |
| VMware Aria Automation for Secure Hosts | VMware Tanzu Salt SecOps Capability |
| VMware NSX Distributed Firewall | VMware vDefend Distributed Firewall |
| VMware NSX Gateway Firewall | VMware vDefend Gateway Firewall |
| Tanzu Kubernetes release (TKr) | vSphere Kubernetes Services (VKS) |
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