Course Overview
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 personalized 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
Who should attend
System administrators and system integrators responsible for designing, implementing, and managing VMware Aria Automation

Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:

VMware Certified Professional – Cloud Management and Automation 2024
VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Management and Automation Design 2024
Prerequisites
This course requires that a student 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
Course Objectives
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
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
Connect to a Kubernetes cluster and manage namespaces
Customize 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
Describe the key services of VMware Cloud Automation Services™
Use VMware Aria Automation Config to configure and deploy systems
Use logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot VMware Aria Automation
Course Content
Course Introduction
VMware Aria Automation Overview and Architecture
Installing VMware Aria Automation
Authentication and Authorization
Basic Initial Configuration
VMware Aria Automation Templates
Tags
Storage Configuration
Integrating NSX With VMware Aria Automation
Integrating with Public Clouds
Using VMware Aria Automation Consumption
VMware Aria Automation Extensibility
Using Kubernetes Clusters
Using VMware Aria Automation Config for Configuration Management
VMware Aria Automation Troubleshooting and Integration