VMware Aria Operations for Networks: Install Configure Manage [V6.8]

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.

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

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

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