This is the next blog in the series about VMware Success 360™, where we explore how Accelerators and Success Pathways can help you achieve specific outcomes. For more information on Accelerators and Success Pathways, read the first blog in the VMware Success 360 Success Pathways blog series.
Efficient Capacity Management with VMware Aria Operations™ Success Pathway
With its scalability and flexibility, multi-cloud is an effective way for organizations to respond to the demands of modernized IT. Yet the mix of private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments can come at a cost for IT teams responsible for infrastructure operations and monitoring. The challenges of managing a more complex IT environment include new skills requirements, poor visibility into performance issues, slow remediation, and wasted resources. VMware Aria Operations can help you address these challenges by enabling proactive performance and capacity planning and intelligent remediation to predict, prevent and troubleshoot faster with actionable insights.
The Efficient Capacity Management with VMware Aria Operations Success Pathway can help you achieve these benefits faster. This Success Pathway consists of tasks and Accelerators to help you get started, giving you visibility into how your resources are being used, how much they are costing the business, and how to improve operational efficiency.
Task 1: Get Started with VMware Aria Operations
Getting Started with VMware Aria Operations provides guidance that includes design and deployment considerations for an on-premises instance and how to access it for SaaS-based entitlements. Upon completing this task, you should be able to understand the design considerations and be able to deploy a minimal VMware Aria Operations production-ready cluster instance in your environment.
- Onboard VMware Aria Operations Getting Started for On-Premises Deployment Guidance – This accelerator provides you with easy self-service access to VMware Reference Architecture, VMware Validated Solution, documentation, best practices, a video, and a sizing tool.
- Onboard VMware Aria Operations Getting Started using VMware Tech Zone – This accelerator provides the curated assets in Tech Zone to knowledge base articles, blogs, videos, and webinars.
- Onboard VMware Aria Operations Hands-on-Lab – This hands-on lab allows you to explore VMware Aria Operations and discover how to optimize VM performance, reclaim resources, manage virtual infrastructure capacity, troubleshoot your virtual environment, automate tasks, and more.
- Onboard VMWare Aria Operations Getting Started On-Demand Webinar – This on-demand webinar provides a walkthrough of how to gain operational insights into the VMware Cloud Foundation™ or Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) environment to enable hands-off and hassle-free production operations via a unified platform. It also discusses the essential use cases of VMware Aria Operations.
- Onboard VMware Aria Operations Getting Started Guided Workshop – A VMware subject matter expert provides a walkthrough to help you gain operational insights into VMware Cloud Foundation or SDDC management via a unified operations platform. This workshop also discusses the deployment and initial configuration of VMware Aria Operations on-premises and SaaS offerings (available on request).
- Onboard VMware Aria Operations Getting Started Build Workshop – A VMware subject matter expert remotely provides operational insights into VMware Cloud Foundation or SDDC environment. The VMware expert also discusses the essential use cases of VMware Aria Operations and assists with the deployment of a single cluster instance into an existing VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware vSphere® environment.
Task 2: Understand Common Use Cases of VMware Aria Operations
Understanding the Common Use Cases of VMware Aria Operations provides guidance for the three top use cases supported by VMware Aria Operations. The discussion involves working with out-of-the-box constructs like metrics, alerts, views/reports, and dashboards. Upon completing this task, you should be able to understand the common use cases available from VMware Aria Operations – performance management, capacity management, and intelligent remediation (on-premises or SaaS). In addition, you will learn about the top metrics which can be used to monitor performance within an SDDC.
- Adopt VMware Aria Operations Configuration Quick Reference – This quick reference guide describes how to configure and monitor your environment. It will show you how to connect VMware Aria Operations to external data sources and how to analyze the data collected from them. It will ensure that users and their supporting infrastructure are in place, configure resources to determine the behavior of objects, and format the content that appears in VMware Aria Operations.
- Adopt VMware Aria Operations Common Use Cases On-Demand Webinar – This on-demand webinar provides a walkthrough of how to improve the operation of a VMware Cloud Foundation or an SDDC environment using VMware Aria Operations. It also discusses the common use cases of VMware Aria Operations.
- Adopt VMware Aria Operations Top Metrics On-Demand Webinar – This on-demand webinar provides a walkthrough of how to increase your understanding of the top metrics in VMware Aria Operations:
- Identify VMware Aria Operations metrics
- Resolve common misunderstandings on VMware Aria Operations metrics
- Recognize how VMware Aria Operations presents CPU, memory, and storage metrics.
- Adopt VMware Aria Operations Common Use Cases Guided Workshop – A VMware subject matter expert will remotely provide a guided walkthrough to help you improve the operation of a VMware Cloud Foundation or an SDDC environment using VMware Aria Operations. The VMware expert will also discuss the common use cases of VMware Aria Operations.
Task 3: Understand Software Defined Data Center Day 2 Operations with VMware Aria Operations
Understanding Software Defined Data Center Day 2 Operations with VMware Aria Operations involves an in-depth discussion of the top three VMware Aria Operations use cases. It also covers how to customize several aspects of VMware Aria Operations, including policies, custom groups, super metrics, certificates, access control, and management packs. Upon completing this task, you should be able to understand how to use VMware Aria Operations for SDDC Day 2 Operations.
- Consume VMware Aria Operations Day 2 SDDC Operations On-Demand Webinar –This webinar provides an overview of improving the Day 2 Operations of a VMware Cloud Foundation or an SDDC environment using VMware Aria Operations.
- Consume VMware Aria Operations Day 2 SDDC Operations Guided Workshop –This guided workshop will help improve the Day 2 Operations of a VMware Cloud Foundation or an SDDC environment using VMware Aria Operations. A VMware subject matter expert will remotely discuss Day 2 Operations using VMware Aria Operations on-premises and SaaS offerings (available on request).
- Consume VMware Aria Operations Day 2 SDDC Operations Build Workshop – A VMware subject matter expert provides the guidance to improve the Day 2 Operations and assists in the configuration of a single cluster instance into an existing VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware vSphere environment.
Task 4: Optimize VMware Aria Operations for Targeted Results – Capacity Management
Optimizing VMware Aria Operations for Targeted Results – Capacity Management provides guidance so that you can use and create tailored dashboards, policies/reports/views, and super metrics specific to performance optimization for your SDDC environment.
- Optimize VMware Aria Operations Optimization of Top 3 Use Cases On-Demand Webinar – This on-demand webinar provides a walkthrough of specific performance and capacity issues as well as enables deeper troubleshooting capabilities of a VMware Cloud Foundation or an SDDC environment using VMware Aria Operations (on-premises and SaaS).
- Optimize VMware Aria Operations Optimization of Efficient Capacity Management Guided Workshop – This remotely guided workshop discusses the VMware Aria Operations efficient capacity management use case as part of a VMware Cloud Foundation or an SDDC environment offerings (available on request).
- Optimize VMware Aria Operations Optimization of Top 3 Use Cases Build Workshop – A VMware subject matter expert remotely provides the guidance to address specific performance and capacity issues as well as enable deeper troubleshooting capabilities of a VMware Cloud Foundation or an SDDC environment using VMware Aria Operations. The VMware expert also assists with configuring a single cluster instance in your environment.
Get the resources you need to plan, design, deploy, and optimize VMware Aria Operations with this curated Success Pathway included in your VMware Success 360 entitlement.
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