Course Overview
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 VMware 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.
Who should attend
- Experienced system administrators and system integrators
- Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing VMware Aria Operations
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you must meet at least one of the following requirements:
- VMware vSphere®: Install, Configure, Manage
- 6 months of hands-on VMware Aria Operations experience
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- List the VMware Aria Operations use cases
- Identify features and benefits of VMware Aria Operations
- Describe the functions of nodes and components in VMware Aria Operations clusters
- Determine the VMware Aria Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
- Deploy and configure a VMware Aria Operations cluster
- Use tags and tag values in grouping objects
- Describe VMware 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
- Use the Workload Placement (WLP) feature to optimize performance
- Troubleshoot and manage issues using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
- Manage configurations
- Configure Application Monitoring using VMware Cloud Proxy
- 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
- Describe the concept, components, and benefits of super metrics
- Configure users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
- Extend the capabilities of VMware Aria Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Introduction to VMware Aria Operations
- VMware Aria Operations Architecture
- Deploying VMware Aria Operations
- Tags and Custom Groups
- Policies and Certificate Management
- Capacity Optimization
- What-If Scenarios and Costing in VMware Aria Operations
- Performance Optimization
- Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations
- Service Discovery and Application Monitoring
- Custom Alerts
- Custom Views and Reports
- Custom Dashboards
- Super Metrics
- User Access Control
- Extending and Managing a VMware Aria Operations Deployment