• Deploy and configure a VMware Aria Operations cluster.
• Understand Aria Operations architecture and high availability.
• Configure policies, tags, groups, and certificates.
• Optimize capacity, performance, and workload placement.
• Troubleshoot using the Workbench, alerts, and dashboards.
• Configure application monitoring and custom alerts.
• Create custom views, reports, and dashboards.
• Use super metrics and management packs.
• Manage users, groups, configurations, and cluster health.

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Introduction to VMware Aria Operations

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

Module 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)

Module 4: Deploying VMware Aria Operations

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

Module 5: Tags and Custom Groups

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

Module 6: Policies and Certificate Management

• Use policies to analyze information about objects
• Configure policies and related components
• Create Certificate Signing Requests for VMware Aria Operations

Module 7: Capacity Optimization

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

Module 8: What-If Scenarios and Costing in VMware Aria Operations

• Assess what-if scenarios for adding and removing VM workloads
• Assess what-if scenarios for adding and removing hosts
• Assess scenarios for migrating workloads to VMware and public clouds

Module 9: Performance Optimization

• Describe performance optimization
• Define business and operational intentions for a data center
• Use Optimize Now to optimize workload performance
• Review optimization history and potential
• Automate workload optimization and balancing

Module 10: Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations

• Use the Troubleshooting Workbench to analyze problems
• Troubleshoot objects using Alerts and Metrics tabs
• Understand compliance capabilities
• Use configuration and compliance dashboards

Module 11: Service Discovery and Application Monitoring

• Describe native service discovery and application monitoring
• Configure application monitoring
• Monitor applications using VMware Cloud Proxy

Module 12: Custom Alerts

• Identify alert definition components
• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Configure custom alerts
• Attach symptoms, conditions, and recommendations to alerts

Module 13: Custom Views and Reports

• Understand the role of views
• Create custom views
• Configure view settings
• Create custom report templates

Module 14: Custom Dashboards

• Create dashboards using predefined and custom widgets
• Configure widget interactions
• Manage, group, and share dashboards

Module 15: Super Metrics

• Describe super metrics and their benefits
• Identify types and uses of super metrics
• Understand super metric design considerations
• Manage super metrics using the super metric wizard

Module 16: User Access Control

• Understand access control
• Create local users and user groups
• Determine privilege priorities
• Import users and groups from LDAP

Module 17: Extending and Managing a VMware Aria Operations Deployment

• Identify available management packs
• Monitor Aria Operations cluster health
• Generate support bundles
• View logs and audit reports
• Perform cluster management tasks

5 Days

• Prepare an environment for VMware Aria Operations deployment.
• Deploy and configure Aria Operations nodes.
• Configure cluster and high-availability settings.
• Create tags and custom groups.
• Configure policies and certificate requests.
• Perform capacity planning and What-If analysis.
• Use workload optimization capabilities.
• Troubleshoot objects using the Workbench.
• Configure application monitoring using VMware Cloud Proxy.
• Create custom symptoms and alert definitions.
• Build custom views and reports.
• Create dashboards with custom widgets.
• Configure widget interactions.
• Create and manage super metrics.
• Configure users and user groups.
• Integrate management packs and solutions.
• Monitor cluster health and generate support bundles.

Course Completion Certificate by Network Binary

Candidates should meet at least one of the following requirements:

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