This two-day, hands-on course gives you the skills to deploy and use VMware Aria Operations™ for Networks to ensure
an optimized, highly available, and secure infrastructure for your applications. You will learn the features, components,
architecture, and benefits of VMware Aria Operations for Networks and how to use it to simplify daily operation and
troubleshooting tasks.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Explain the features and architecture of VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• Describe the VMware Aria Operations for Networks installation processes and requirements
• Navigate the VMware Aria Operations for Networks GUI
• Recognize major use cases for VMware Aria Operations for Networks and their benefits
• Deploy VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• Use VMware Aria Operations for Networks to monitor, operate, analyze, and troubleshoot the infrastructure
supporting your applications

Network professionals and who design, build, operate, manage, and troubleshoot software-defined networking and
security, and application owners who need visibility across multi-cloud environments

Students taking this course should have general networking concepts including TCP/IP service and protocols, security
knowledge and familiar with NSX architecture.
Before taking this course, students are recommended to take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and
experience:
• VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage

Course Modules

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Introduction to VMware Aria Operations for
Networks
• Identify the use cases for VMware Aria Operations
for Networks
• Access the VMware Aria Operations for Networks
Home page
• View VMware Aria Operations for Networks entity
data
• Perform searches for specific entity data
• Create entity search queries
• Find and use event data

3 VMware Aria Operations for Networks Architecture
and Components
• Identify the components of VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
• Describe the function of each component and how
the components interact
• Check the health of VMware Aria Operations for
Networks components

4 VMware Aria Operations for Networks Installation
• Deploy VMware Aria Operations for Networks
components
• Configure the pairing relationship between the
platform VM and the collector VM
• Troubleshoot platform VM and collector VM
configuration problems
• Explain how data sources export flow information
• Add VMware vCenter Server® to VMware Aria
Operations for Networks
• Add a VMware NSX to VMware Aria Operations for
Networks
• Configure IPFIX
• Distinguish between the mechanisms used to scale
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• Select the appropriate scaling mechanism for your
environment
• Describe how clusters are expanded
• Integrate VMware Aria Operations with VMware
Aria Operations for Networks
• Import a VMware Aria Operations for Networks
instance into VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

5 VMware Aria Operations for Networks Use Cases
• Explain use cases for VMware Aria Operations for
Networks
• Create VMware Aria Operations for Networks
applications
• Perform application discovery
• Plan and optimize micro-segmentation and security
for applications
• Explain the use of flow analytics
• Use flow information from physical devices in
security planning
• Generate virtual machine path topologies between
entities using flows
• Extract useful information from path topologies
• Validate NSX deployments
• Monitor and troubleshoot NSX events

6 Operations and Troubleshooting Common Issues
• Perform VMware Aria Operations for Networks
operations by using VMware vSphere® tags
• Use the flow analytics dashboards to perform flow
analysis
• Set and configure Intents to identify aberrations in
the behaviour of entities
• Use VMware Aria Operations for Networks tools to
troubleshoot common problems