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 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 7 Capacity Optimization

• • Define capacity planning terms
• • Explain capacity planning models
• • Define the 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 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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