This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge and skills to deploy a VMware Aria Operations cluster that meets the monitoring requirements of your environment. This course includes advanced capabilities, such as customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards, and explains the deployment and architecture in VMware Aria Operations. This course explains application monitoring, certificates, policies, capacity and cost concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using the workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards, and how to manage compliance and configurations. This course also covers several management packs.

5 days of work with a trainer
Trainer’s supervision
Contact with community
Coursebook
Lab environment
Training method

lecture
workshops

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

List the VMware Aria Operations use cases
Identify features and benefits of VMware Aria Operations
Describe the functions of nodes and components in VMware Aria Operations clusters
Determine the VMware Aria Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
Deploy and configure a VMware Aria Operations cluster
Use tags and tag values in grouping objects
Describe VMware Aria Operations certificates
Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
Recognize effective ways to optimize performance, capacity, and cost in data centers
Use the Workload Placement (WLP) feature to optimize performance
Troubleshoot and manage issues using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
Manage configurations
Configure Application Monitoring using VMware Cloud Proxy
Create custom symptoms and alert definitions, reports, and views
Create various custom dashboards using the dashboard creation canvas
Configure widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
Describe the concept, components, and benefits of super metrics
Configure users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
Extend the capabilities of VMware Aria Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions

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

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

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 applicationmonitoring 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