Datacenter Migrations with VMware Aria Operations for Networks

Course objectives. What I want you to get out of this course is to truly understand what your application is doing, which will feed into your data center migrations and make them as successful as possible. In order to do that, we’re going to use Aria Operations for Networks to run with its application discovery, which is a native functionality that it has and allows you to categorize your applications, as we’ll see through this course.

After we’ve discovered your applications, we want to identify your application dependencies and tie it into some security planning, if that’s what you would like to do. Application dependency mapping is very important when you’re doing data center migrations, because you need to understand what parts of an application talk to another. If you split them apart, what does that latency that incurred, if there is latency that is incurred, were core to that application as part of that migration and end user usability?

Once we’ve identified all those applications and their tiers, we can then plan and execute workload migrations with HCX. And then finally, monitoring those migrations with AON and how much throughput is going through HCX as part of that migration. Now, keep in mind, a lot of this will be live demo environment, so you can get proper visibility into what it is that needs to be done and what you can do with AON. We will cover a couple of slides and then move straight into the demo, just to keep it a bit more interactive.