Live-Online: VMware Aria Operations for Networks: Install, Configure, Manage (V6.8)

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

• Explaining the features and architecture of VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• Describing the installation process and requirements for VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• Navigating the graphical user interface of VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• Identifying the key use cases for VMware Aria Operations for Networks and their benefits
• Implementing VMware Aria Operations for Networks
• Using VMware Aria Operations for Networks for monitoring, operating, analyzing, and troubleshooting the infrastructure that supports your applications

This course is designed for network experts who develop, build, operate, manage, and troubleshoot software-defined networks and security, as well as application owners who need visibility in multi-cloud environments.

Participants of this course should have general knowledge of networking concepts, including TCP/IP services and protocols, as well as security knowledge, and should be familiar with the NSX architecture.