VAONICM68 - VMware Aria Operations for Networks: Install, Configure, Manage V6.8

Course Overview

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.

Who should attend

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.

Prerequisites

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 Objectives

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

Outline:

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