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Overview

VMware Aria Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.17]

During this five-day official VMware 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.

Skills Covered

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

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

Target Audience

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

Course Curriculum

Module 1: Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Module 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 Identity Manager
  • Describe the relationship between Kubernetes clusters, container, and VMware Aria Automation services

Module 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

Module 4: Authentication and Authorization

  • 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

Module 5: 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

Module 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

Module 7: Using VMware Aria Automation Tags

  • Configure tags
  • Describe functions of tags
  • Manage tags

Module 8: Configuring Storage in VMware Aria Automation

  • Configure storage profiles
  • Use tags and storage profiles

Module 9: 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

Module 10: 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

Module 11: 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

Module 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

Module 13: 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

Module 14: 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

Module 15: 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

Dates & Locations

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July 13, 2026 - July 17, 2026

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July 13, 2026 - July 17, 2026

Location: Online
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October 12, 2026 - October 16, 2026

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October 12, 2026 - October 16, 2026

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Exam & Certification

This course is not associated with any Certification.

Training & Certification Guide

The VMware Certified Professional – Cloud Management and Automation 2023 (VCP-CMA 2023) certification exam validates candidates’ ability to install, configure, administer, and operate VMware Aria Automation to support the self-service and automated provisioning of services into Private, Public and Multi-Cloud environments.

Job-roles associated with this certification include cloud administrators, cloud architects, and consultants.

This exam tests and validates candidates’ ability to install, configure, administer, and operate VMware Aria Automation to support the self-service and automated provisioning of services into Private, Public and Multi-Cloud environments.

  • Product: VMware Aria Automation 8.10
  • Language: English
  • Number of Questions: 64
  • Format: Single and Multiple Choice, Proctored
  • Duration: 130 Minutes
  • Passing Score: 300 (scaled)
  • Passing Score – VMware exams are scaled on a range from 100-500, with the determined raw cut score scaled to a value of 300. Your exam may contain unscored questions in addition to the scored questions, this is a standard testing practice. You will not know which questions are unscored, your exam results will reflect your performance on the scored questions only.

Frequently Asked Questions

VMware Aria Automation™ is a modern infrastructure automation platform with event-driven state management. It is designated to help organizations control and secure self-service multi-cloud with governance and DevOps based infrastructure delivery.

With VMware Aria Automation, internal IT operations, DevOps engineers, developers, and the lines of business get the environments and resources they need faster with a public cloud–like user experience, while IT maintains security, compliance and control.

This means customers benefit from increased scalability, speed, flexibility and reliability as they reduce the complexity of their IT environment, streamline IT processes, and deliver a DevOps-ready automation platform.

Consistent automation across clouds and data centers enables:

  • Faster time to market – Offload manual tasks with advanced workflows and agile templating.
  • Ease of use – Rapidly set up and manage multi-cloud environments throughout the lifecycle with an intuitive, self-service consumption experience.
  • Security and control – Establish consistent policies across multi-cloud environments and strengthen infrastructure with native compliance management, flexible cloud guardrails, and vulnerability remediation.
  • Accelerated innovation – Expedite the adoption of new, cloud native technologies with a future-ready platform built on infrastructure as code (IaC) and DevOps principles.

VMware Aria Automation automates the delivery of IT services by providing a portal for provisioning and managing apps. Through its various components, it allows multi-cloud provisioning, automated application and infrastructure delivery, software configuration management and workflow automation.

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