VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.17]

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you must meet at least one of the following requirements:

• VMware vSphere®: Install, Configure, Manage
• 6 months of hands-on VMware Aria Operations experience

Audience

• Experienced system administrators and system integrators
• Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing VMware Aria Operations

Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Introduction to VMware Aria Operations

• List the key features of VMware Aria Operations
• Outline VMware Aria Operations use cases

3 VMware Aria Operations Architecture

• Describe the role of the primary node in a VMware Aria Operations cluster
• Identify the functions of components in a VMware Aria Operations node
• Identify the types of nodes and their role in a VMware Aria Operations cluster
• Outline how high availability is achieved in VMware Aria Operations
• List the components required to enable Continuous Availability (CA)

4 Deploying VMware Aria Operations

• Describe the VMware Aria Operations cluster design and sizing principles
• Prepare an environment for a VMware Aria Operations deployment
• Deploy a VMware Aria Operations node
• Describe different VMware Aria Operations deployment scenarios

5 Tags and Custom Groups

• Use tags and tag values in grouping objects
• Create custom group types to collect and report data from objects
• Describe Business Applications and Custom Datacenter

6 Policies and Certificate Management

• Use policies to analyze information about various object types and objects in your environment
• Configure policies and other components
• Create Certificate Signing Requests for your VMware Aria Operations instance

7 Capacity Optimization

• Define capacity planning terms
• Explain capacity planning models
• Define the capacity concepts
• Configure custom profiles

8 What-If Scenarios and Costing in VMware Aria Operations

• Assess what-if scenarios for adding and removing VM workloads to a data center
• Assess what-if scenarios for adding and removing hosts to a data center
• Assess what-if scenarios to plan the migration of workloads to VMware and public clouds

9 Performance Optimization

• Describe performance optimization
• Define the business and operational intentions for a data center
• Use the Optimize Now feature to optimize workload performance
• Review optimization history and potential
• Automate the process of optimizing and balancing workloads in data centers

10 Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations

• Use the troubleshooting workbench to analyze a problem
• Troubleshoot objects using the Troubleshooting Workbench Alerts and Metrics tabs
• Outline how VMware Aria Operations applies compliance in your environment
• Use configuration and compliance dashboards to assess the status of objects in your environment

11 Service Discovery and Application Monitoring

• Describe native service discovery and application monitoring features
• Configure application monitoring
• Monitor applications by using VMware Cloud Proxy for VMware Aria Operations

12 Custom Alerts

• Identify the components of an alert definition
• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Configure a custom alert using the Create Alert Definition workflow
• Attach symptoms, conditions, and recommendations to an alert definition

13 Custom Views and Reports

• Outline the role of views in VMware Aria Operations
• Create a basic custom view
• Configure view settings
• Create a custom report template

14 Custom Dashboards

• Create dashboards that use predefined and custom widgets
• Configure widgets to interact with other widgets and other dashboards
• Manage dashboards by grouping dashboards and sharing dashboards with users

15 Super Metrics

• Describe the concept, components, and benefits of supermetrics
• Define the types of super metrics and their usage
• Describe super metric design considerations
• Manage super metrics with the super metric wizard

16 User Access Control

• Outline access control in VMware Aria Operations
• Create local users and user groups
• Determine privilege priorities when a user has multiple privileges
• Import users and user groups from an LDAP source

17 Extending and Managing a VMware Aria Operations Deployment

• Identify common management packs that are available to your environment
• Monitor the health of a VMware Aria Operations cluster
• Generate a support bundle
• View VMware Aria Operations logs and audit reports
• Perform VMware Aria Operations cluster management tasks