VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage

Length 5 days
Price $6589 inc GST
Version 8.10

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Why study this course

During this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Aria Automation 8.10™ on-premises systems. You learn how it can be used to automate the delivery of virtual machines, applications, and personalised IT services across different data centers and hybrid cloud environments. The course covers how VMware Aria Automation Consumption™ can aggregate content in native formats from multiple clouds and platforms into a common catalog.

This course also covers interfacing VMware Aria Automation with other systems using VMware Aria Orchestrator and how to use VMware Aria Automation to manage Kubernetes systems and leverage other systems. In this course, you will use VMware Aria Automation Config™ as a configuration management tool.

Product alignment:

VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2
VMware vSphere 7.0.3
VMware Aria Automation 8.10
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle® 8.10.0.6
VMware Aria Automation Config 8.10
VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator 8.10

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What you’ll learn

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Describe the VMware Aria Automation architecture and use cases in cloud environments
Describe the key services of VMware Cloud Automation Services™
Manage VMware Aria Automation entities on VMware and third-party virtual and cloud infrastructures
Install VMware Aria Automation with VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
Configure and manage cloud accounts, projects, flavor mappings, image mappings, network profiles, storage profiles, volumes, tags, and services
Create, modify, manage, and deploy VMware Aria Automation Templates
Customise services and virtual machines with cloudConfig and cloudbase-init
Configure and manage VMware Aria Automation Consumption
Configure and manage ABX actions, custom properties, event broker subscriptions, and VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator workflows
Connect to a Kubernetes cluster and manage namespaces
Use VMware Aria Automation Config to configure and deploy systems
Use logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot VMware Aria Automation

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VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technologies. Lumify Work is the largest VCF Education Delivery Partner in Australia and New Zealand, offering training in vSphere, Aria Suite, vRealize, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation courses.

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Who is the course for?

System administrators and system integrators responsible for designing, implementing, and managing VMware Aria Automation.

Course subjects

1. Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2. VMware Aria Automation Overview and Architecture

Describe the purpose and functionality of VMware Aria Automation \
Identify the key services offered by VMware Aria Automation
Describe the VMware Aria Automation architecture
Describe the use of VMware Workspace ONE Access™
Describe the relationship between Kubernetes clusters, container, and VMware Aria Automation services

3. Installing VMware Aria Automation

List the different VMware Aria Automation deployment types
Describe the purpose of Easy Installer
Describe the VMware Aria Automation installation process

4. Authentication and Authorisation

Identify the steps to integrating Workspace ONE® Access with Active Directory
Describe the features of Workspace ONE Access
Describe the user roles available in VMware Aria Automation
Identify the key tasks performed by each user role
Define custom roles
Configure branding and multitenancy

5. Basic Initial Configuration

Create a basic configuration with a cloud account, cloud zone, project, flavor mapping, and image mapping

6. VMware Aria Automation Templates

Configure and deploy a basic VMware Aria Automation template
Create a VMware Aria Automation template that can run on any cloud
Use cloudConfig and cloudbase-init to run commands, create users, and install software
Use YAML for inputs, variables, and conditional deployments

7. Tags

Configure tags
Describe functions of tags
Manage tags

8. Storage Configuration

Configure storage profiles
Use tags and storage profiles

9. Integrating NSX With VMware Aria Automation

List the capabilities and use cases of VMware NSX®
Describe the NSX architecture and components
Integrate NSX with VMware Aria Automation
List the supported network profiles in VMware Aria Automation
Use the NSX components to design a multitier application with VMware Aria Automation Templates
Identify the network and security options available in design canvas
Create and manage on-demand networks and security groups
Configure NSX Day 2 actions

10. Integrating with Public Clouds

Configure and use VMware Cloud Foundation™ accounts
Integrate VMware Cloud Director™ account
Configure and use an AWS cloud account
Configure and use an Azure cloud account
Configure and use a Google Cloud Platform cloud account
Integrate VMware Cloud on AWS cloud account

11. Using VMware Aria Automation Consumption

Release a VMware Aria Automation template
Define content source and content sharing
Define VMware Aria Automation policy enforcement
Use custom forms for catalog items

12. VMware Aria Automation Extensibility

Describe VMware Aria Automation extensibility
Use event topics
Create a subscription
Call a VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator workflow
Create ABX actions

13. Using Kubernetes Clusters

Introduction to Kubernetes
Connect to an existing Kubernetes Cluster
Create a VMware Aria Automation template with Kubernetes components

14. Using VMware Aria Automation Config for Configuration Management

Describe VMware Aria Automation Config
Use VMware Aria Automation Config for software deployment
Use VMware Aria Automation Config for configuration management
Use VMware Aria Automation Config with event-driven orchestration

15. VMware Aria Automation Troubleshooting and Integration

Demonstrate how to monitor deployment history
Demonstrate basic troubleshooting
Execute CLI commands
Explain how to collect logs
Describe integration with VMware Aria Operations for Logs
Describe integration with VMware Aria Operations

Prerequisites

This course requires the students to have strong knowledge on basic VMware vSphere concepts.

Students should be able to perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

Create VMware vCenter® objects, such as data centers and folders
Create a virtual machine using a wizard or a template
Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
Navigate through the vSphere Client

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