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VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.17]
During this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware® Aria Automation™ 8.17 on-premises systems. You learn to use VMware Aria Automation to automate the delivery...
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$4,250 USD
Duration
5 days
Course Code
EDU-VAAICM817
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Upcoming Course Dates
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Aug 4, 2025 - Aug 8, 2025 (5 days)
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Sep 22, 2025 - Sep 26, 2025 (5 days)
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Nov 17, 2025 - Nov 21, 2025 (5 days)
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Overview
During this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware® Aria Automation™ 8.17 on-premises systems. You learn to use VMware Aria Automation 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 Service Broker™ 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 Automation Orchestrator™ and how to use VMware Aria Automation to manage Kubernetes systems and use other systems. In this course, you will use VMware® Aria Automation Config™ as a configuration management tool.
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Install and configure VMware Aria Automation
- Describe the VMware Aria Automation architecture and its use cases in multitenant cloud environments
- Identify the roles of VMware Identity Manager and VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
- Configure and manage cloud accounts and projects for compute resources
- Configure, customize, and manage VMware Aria Automation Templates
- Configure VMware Aria Automation Service Broker for creating a self-service catalog
- Use the self-service portal to request and manage deployments in VMware Aria Automation
- Integrate NSX with VMware Aria Automation
- Integrate VMware Aria Automation with VMware Cloud Foundation
- Describe VMware Aria Automation extensibility
- Use and manage Kubernetes clusters from VMware Aria Automation
- Use VMware Aria Automation Config for software deployment and configuration management
- Identify the key log files and commands to troubleshoot VMware Aria Automation
Who Can Benefit
System administrators and system integrators responsible for designing, implementing, and managing VMware Aria Automation
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 VMware vSphere Client
Course Details
Course Modules
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
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 Identity Manager
- Describe the relationship between Kubernetes
- clusters, container, and VMware Aria Automation
- services
Basic Initial Configuration
- List the VMware Aria Automation basic
- configuration steps for creating and deploying a
- VMware Aria Automation template
- Create a basic configuration with a cloud account,
- cloud zone, project, flavor mapping, and image
- mapping
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
Course Outline
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
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 Identity Manager
- Describe the relationship between Kubernetes clusters, container, and VMware Aria Automation services
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
Authentication and Authorization
- Identify the steps to integrating VMware Identity Manager with Active Directory
- Describe the features of VMware Identity Manager
- 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
Basic Initial Configuration
- List the VMware Aria Automation basic configuration steps for creating and deploying a VMware Aria Automation template
- Create a basic configuration with a cloud account, cloud zone, project, flavor mapping, and image mapping
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
Using VMware Aria Automation Tags
- Configure tags
- Describe functions of tags
- Manage tags
Configuring Storage in VMware Aria Automation
- Configure storage profiles
- Use tags and storage profiles
Integrating NSX With VMware Aria Automation
- List the capabilities and use cases of 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
Integrating VMware Aria Automation with Cloud Systems
- Configure and use VMware Cloud Foundation®
- accounts
- Configure and use a 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
Using VMware Aria Automation Service Broker
- Release a VMware Aria Automation template
- Define content source and content sharing
- Define VMware Aria Automation policy enforcement
- Use custom forms for catalog items
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
Integration with Kubernetes
- Explore Kubernetes integration
- Describe a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster deployment
- Connect to an existing Kubernetes cluster
- Create a VMware Aria Automation template with
- Kubernetes components
Introduction to VMware Aria Automation Config
- 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 eventdriven orchestration
Troubleshooting and Integration with VMware Aria Suite
- 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
Schedule
3 options available
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Aug 4, 2025 - Aug 8, 2025 (5 days)
Live Virtual | 10:00AM – 6:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 options below Live Virtual |10:00AM – 6:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Sep 22, 2025 - Sep 26, 2025 (5 days)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 options below Live Virtual |9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Nov 17, 2025 - Nov 21, 2025 (5 days)
Live Virtual | 10:00AM – 6:00PM EST Language English Select from 1 options below Live Virtual |10:00AM – 6:00PM EST- Enroll
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Reviews
very good and spcecific course and above all a very good instructor. In few days I have learned a lot.
The training was very good to understand the concepts and how to set up things .
Instructor knew her stuff. Long time in the industry. Course was easy to follow and very informative.
Some Labs are very good but some steps it ask to update but its already updated, but overall its very good training.
Overall it was a good bootcamp. A lot to cover so it is understandable that the pace had to be a little fast.
