VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.17]

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