VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.17]
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 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.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- List the Aria Operations use cases
- Identify features and benefits of Aria Operations
- Determine the Aria Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
- Deploy and configure Aria Operations cluster
- Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational problems
- Describe 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
- Troubleshoot and manage problems using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
- Manage configurations
- Configure application monitoring using VMware Aria Operations Cloud Appliance
- 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
- Create super metrics
- Set up users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
- Extend the capabilities of Aria Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions
- Monitor the health of the Aria Operations cluster by using selfmonitoring dashboards
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Experienced system administrators and system integrators
- Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing Aria Operations
PREREQUISITES
Before taking this course, you must complete at least one the following:
- VMware vSphere®: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
- 6 months Hands-on Aria Operations experience
About the course
COURSE OUTLINE
MODULE 01 Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics
- Course objectives
MODULE 02 Introduction to Aria Operations
- List the Aria Operations use cases
- Access the Aria Operations User Interface (UI)
MODULE 03 Aria Operations Architecture
- Identify the functions of components in a Aria Operations node
- Identify the types of nodes and their role in Aria Operations cluster
- Outline how high availability is achieved in Aria Operations
- List the components required to enable Continuous Availability (CA)
MODULE 04 Deploying Aria Operations
- Design and size a Aria Operations cluster
- Deploy Aria Operations node
- Install Aria Operations instance
- Describe different Aria Operations deployment scenarios
MODULE 05 Aria Operations Concepts
- Identify product UI components
- Create and use tags to group objects
- Use a custom group to group objects
MODULE 06 Aria Operations Policies and Certificate Management
- Describe Aria Operations certificates
- Create policies for various types of workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works
MODULE 07 Capacity Optimization
- Define capacity planning terms
- Explain capacity planning models
- Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
MODULE 08 What-If Scenarios and Costing in Aria Operations
- Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
- Discuss the types of cost drivers in Aria Operations
- Assess the cost of your data center inventory
MODULE 09 Performance Optimization
- Introduction to performance optimization
- Define the business and operational intentions for a data center
- Automate the process of optimizing and balancing workloads in data centers
- Report the results of optimization potential
MODULE 10 Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations
- Describe the troubleshooting workbench
- Recognize how to troubleshoot problems by monitoring alerts
- Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot different vSphere objects
- Assess your environment’s compliance to standards
- View the configurations of vSphere objects in your environment
MODULE 11 Operating System and Application Monitoring
- Describe native service discovery and application monitoring features
- Configure application monitoring
- Monitor operating systems and applications by using VMware Aria Operations Cloud
MODULE 12 Custom Alerts
- Create symptom definitions
- Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
- Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
- Build and use custom views in your environment
MODULE 13 Custom Views and Reports
- Build and use custom views in your environment
- Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment
MODULE 14 Custom Dashboards
- Create dashboards that use predefined and custom widgets
- Configure widgets to interact with other widgets and other dashboards
- Configure the Scoreboard widget to use a metric configuration file
- Manage dashboards by grouping dashboards and sharing dashboards with users
MODULE 15 Super Metrics
- Recognize different types of super metrics
- Create super metrics and associate them with objects
- Enable super metrics in policies
MODULE 16 User Access Control
- Recognize how users are authorized to access objects
- Determine privilege priorities when a user has multiple privileges
- Import users and user groups from an LDAP source
MODULE 17 Extending and managing Aria Operations Deployment
- Identify available management packs in the VMware Marketplace™
- Monitor the health of Aria Operations cluster
- Generate a support bundle
- View Aria Operations logs and audit reports
- Perform Aria Operations cluster management taskse
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