Introduction
Hello to all readers of the blog about IT Architecture and Training!
In the previous article of the “VMware Training and Certification. Year 2025” series, we examined VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle as a core component for managing the lifecycle of VMware’s cloud management platforms.
In this article, we focus on VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Operations for Logs – solutions designed to provide deep operational visibility, performance analytics, and proactive monitoring across VMware-based infrastructures.
The Aria Operations and Logs learning domain includes training programs focused on metrics-based monitoring, capacity and cost optimization, log analytics, alerting, and operational troubleshooting. These tools play a critical role in enabling data-driven operations, proactive issue detection, and continuous optimization of private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
This article reviews the current VMware Authorized Training programs for Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs, their learning objectives, and their alignment with real-world enterprise operational architectures.
VMware Aria Operations
From an architectural perspective, VMware Aria Operations acts as the central analytics and intelligence engine for VMware infrastructures. It continuously collects metrics and telemetry from vSphere, vSAN, NSX, VMware Cloud Foundation, and cloud services, transforming raw operational data into actionable insights through analytics, capacity models, and predictive algorithms.
The main current training programs for VMware Aria Operations technologies are:
● VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.17]
- Course code: VAOICM817.
- Duration: 5 days.
- Level of difficulty: Professional.
- Target audience:
- Experienced system administrators and system integrators;
- Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing VMware Aria Operations.
- Prerequisites: Before taking this course, you must complete at least one the following:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- 6 months hands-on VMware Aria Operations experience.
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge and skills to deploy a VMware Aria Operations cluster that meets the monitoring requirements of your environment. This course includes advanced capabilities, such as customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards, and explains the deployment and architecture in VMware Aria Operations. This course explains application monitoring, certificates, policies, capacity and cost concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using the workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards, and how to manage compliance and configurations. This course also covers several management packs.
VMware Aria Operations for Logs
VMware Aria Operations for Logs complements this capability by providing centralized log ingestion, indexing, and analytics across infrastructure and application components. Together, metrics and logs form a unified operational visibility layer, enabling correlation between performance anomalies, capacity constraints, and underlying system events.
Integrated with VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, these solutions benefit from standardized deployment and lifecycle automation, ensuring consistent upgrades and configuration management. This architecture enables enterprises to implement proactive operations, support AIOps-driven workflows, and maintain stability and performance across complex, large-scale environments.
The main current training programs for VMware Aria Operations for Logs technologies are:
● VMware Aria Operations for Logs: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.12]
- Course code: AOLICM812.
- Duration: 3 days.
- Level of difficulty: Professional.
- Target audience: System administrators, system engineers, consultants.
- Prerequisites: System administration experience with VMware vSphere®deployments or completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8];
- VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale, and Secure [V8].
This three-day course features hands-on training that focuses on deploying, configuring, and managing VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.12. You will learn the UI enhancements, features, architecture, use cases, and benefits of VMware Aria Operations for Logs. This course provides you with the knowledge and skills to use VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.12 to monitor your environment.
Brief Summary
This article explored VMware Aria Operations and VMware Aria Operations for Logs as core components of VMware’s cloud management and operations platform. We examined how metrics-driven analytics, log intelligence, and predictive capabilities enable proactive monitoring, performance optimization, and data-driven operations across private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
By aligning operational visibility with standardized lifecycle management through VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle, Aria Operations and Logs form a unified operational intelligence layer that supports stability, scalability, and continuous optimization of modern VMware-based infrastructures.
In the next article of the “VMware Training and Certification. Year 2025” series, we will focus on VMware Aria Automation – the platform that enables infrastructure and application automation through self-service provisioning, policy-based governance, and integration across VMware Cloud Foundation and cloud environments.
We will review the Aria Automation training programs, their architectural role, and how automation becomes a foundational capability for operating modern cloud and platform-based infrastructures.
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Sincerely, AIRRA.
