AOICM817 - 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