To ensure that VMware Aria Automation templates are deployed on a particular storage with a capability tag assigned, using constraint tags in the format of '!key:value' for mandatory exclusion or 'key:value:hard' for a hard requirement can be effective. These tag formats ensure that the deployment process respects the constraints, deploying to the desired storage when available, and failing if the specific requirements are not met, thereby adhering to the specified deployment criteria.

For the VMware Aria Automation onboarding plan to run successfully, it is essential to have a project set up with access to the necessary cloud zones, and the relevant cloud accounts must be added with defined cloud zones for the compute resources. These prerequisites ensure that the onboarding process has the necessary context and permissions to allocate resources and manage machines within the specified environment.

The storage allocation techniques that override others in order of precedence are:

A storage constraint tag on a machine overrides a storagepolicy property on a disk. A storage constraint tag is a tag that you add to a machine resource in a cloud template to specify the type of storage that you want to use for the machine. A storagepolicy property is a property that you add to a disk resource in a cloud template to specify the storage policy that you want to use for the disk. If both a storage constraint tag and a storagepolicy property are present in the same cloud template, the storage constraint tag takes precedence and determines the storage location for both the machine and the disk. The storagepolicy property is ignored.

A storagepolicy property on a disk overrides the preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile. The preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile is a storage profile that you select as the default for a cloud zone. It is used to allocate storage for deployments that do not have any storage constraint tags or storagepolicy properties in the cloud template. If a storagepolicy property is present in the cloud template, it takes precedence and determines the storage location for the disk. The preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile is ignored.

The preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile overrides a storagePolicy property on a disk. This is the lowest precedence level for storage allocation techniques. If none of the above techniques are present in the cloud template, the preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile is used to allocate storage for the deployment. The storagePolicy property on a disk is ignored.

The other options, A and D, are not valid storage allocation techniques, as they do not reflect the actual behavior of VMware Aria Automation. The preferred VMware Aria Automation storage profile does not override any other storage allocation technique, and it is not applied to individual disks, but to the entire cloud zone.Reference:

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To examine the commands sent to CloudConfig by VMware Aria Automation during machine provisioning, an administrator can use the Development Mode (Dev Mode) feature available in the Deployment's Provisioning Diagram. This feature provides detailed insights into the provisioning process, including the specific CloudConfig commands executed, helping administrators troubleshoot and understand the deployment process more thoroughly.

To upgrade a VMware Aria Automation deployment to the next available version, VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager is used. This component of the VMware Aria Suite provides lifecycle management capabilities, including the deployment, configuration, upgrade, and patching of VMware Aria Automation and other VMware Aria Suite components, ensuring a consistent and reliable upgrade process.