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