VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.17]
- • Jun 22–26, 2026 · Live Remote Online, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM ET
- • Aug 24–28, 2026 · Live Remote Online, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM ET
- • Oct 26–30, 2026 · Live Remote Online, 10:00 AM–6:00 PM ET
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Course Duration
5 Days
Audience
Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.
Prerequisites
Before attending, you should have completed VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or have at least six months of hands-on VMware Aria Operations experience. This course is suitable for system administrators, operators, and engineers responsible for monitoring and optimizing virtual infrastructure.
Course Description
This five-day, hands-on course provides the knowledge and skills to deploy a VMware Aria Operations cluster that meets the monitoring requirements of your environment. It covers deployment and architecture, and advanced capabilities such as customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards. The course explains application monitoring, certificates, policies, capacity and cost concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases, plus troubleshooting using the workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards, managing compliance and configurations, and several management packs. VMware Aria Operations is the successor to VMware vRealize Operations.
Learning 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 Outline
- Course introduction, objectives, and logistics.
- Introduction to VMware Aria Operations: use cases, features, and benefits.
- VMware Aria Operations architecture: nodes and components in Aria Operations clusters.
- Deploying and configuring a VMware Aria Operations cluster to meet monitoring requirements.
- Tags and custom groups for grouping objects.
- Policies and certificate management.
- Capacity optimization across performance, capacity, and cost.
- What-if scenarios and costing in VMware Aria Operations.
- Performance optimization with the Workload Placement (WLP) feature.
- Troubleshooting and managing configurations using the workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards.
- Service discovery and application monitoring using VMware Cloud Proxy.
- Custom symptoms and alert definitions.
- Custom views, reports, dashboards, widgets, super metrics, user access control, and extending capabilities with management packs.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.17] course cover?
This five-day hands-on course teaches you to deploy and configure a VMware Aria Operations cluster for monitoring your environment. You learn architecture, policies and certificates, capacity and cost optimization, workload placement, troubleshooting with the workbench and dashboards, application monitoring, custom alerts, views, reports, and dashboards, and how to extend Aria Operations with management packs. IT Dojo delivers it as live instructor-led training for government and business professionals.
Is VMware Aria Operations the same as vRealize Operations?
Yes. VMware Aria Operations is the current name for the product previously branded VMware vRealize Operations. VMware rebranded its vRealize cloud management line as VMware Aria, so this course is the up-to-date successor to vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage.
How long is IT Dojo's VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.17] training?
VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.17] is a 5 day course. It is available as live remote online instruction or on-site at your facility.
Is this course available as live remote online training?
Yes. IT Dojo offers VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.17] as live remote online training led in real time by a certified instructor. On-site delivery at your government facility or contractor location is also available.
Who should attend this course?
This course is intended for system administrators, operators, and engineers responsible for monitoring and optimizing virtual infrastructure, including employees of federal, state and local governments and businesses working with the government.
Does IT Dojo offer this training on-site at government or DoD facilities?
Yes. IT Dojo delivers VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.17] on-site at government agencies, DoD commands, military installations, and contractor facilities. On-site training is ideal for teams and can be customized to your organization's workflows. Contact IT Dojo to schedule.
How do I register for this course?
IT Dojo training is employer sponsored. Your organization registers and pays for seats. To schedule VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.17] for your team, contact IT Dojo via the Request Training form or call 757-216-3656.