VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.6]

Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to vRealize Operations

• List the vRealize Operations use cases
• Access the vRealize Operations User Interface (UI)

vRealize Operations Architecture

• Identify the functions of components in a vRealize Operations node
• Identify the types of nodes and their role in a vRealize Operations cluster
• Outline how high availability is achieved in vRealize Operations
• List the components required to enable Continuous Availability (CA)

Deploying vRealize Operations

• Design and size a vRealize Operations cluster
• Deploy a vRealize Operations node
• Install a vRealize Operations instance
• Describe the different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios

vRealize Operations Concepts

• Identify the product UI components
• Create and use tags to group objects
• Use a custom group to group objects

vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management

• Describe the vRealize Operations certificates
• Create policies for the various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

Capacity Optimization

• Define the capacity planning terms
• Explain the capacity planning models
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify the optimization recommendations

What-If Scenarios and Costing in vRealize Operations

• Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
• Discuss the types of cost drivers in vRealize Operations
• Assess the cost of your data center inventory

Performance Optimization

• Introduction to performance optimization
• Define the business and operational intentions for a data center
• Automate the process of optimizing and balancing workloads in data centers
• Report the results of the optimization potential

Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations

• Describe the troubleshooting workbench
• Recognize how to troubleshoot problems by monitoring alerts
• Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot the different vSphere objects
• Assess your environment's compliance to standards
• View the configurations of vSphere objects in your environment

Application Monitoring in vRealize Operations

• Describe the native service discovery and application monitoring features
• Configure the application monitoring
• Monitor the operating systems and applications by using vRealize Application Remote Collector

Custom Alert, Views, and Reports

• Create the symptom definitions
• Create the recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Create the alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
• Build and use the custom views in your environment
• Create the custom reports for presenting data about your environment

Custom Dashboards

• Create the dashboards that use the predefined and custom widgets
• Configure the widgets to interact with the other widgets and other dashboards
• Configure the Scoreboard widget to use a metric configuration file
• Manage the dashboards by grouping dashboards and sharing dashboards with users

Super Metrics

• Recognize the different types of super metrics
• Create super metrics and associate them with objects
• Enable super metrics in policies

User Access Control

• Recognize how users are authorized to access objects
• Determine privilege priorities when a user has multiple privileges
• Import users and user groups from an LDAP source

Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment

• Identify the available management packs in VMware Marketplace™
• Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
• Generate a support bundle
• View the vRealize Operations log files and audit reports
• Perform the vRealize Operations cluster management tasks

Before taking this course, you must complete at least one the following:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• 6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• List the vRealize Operations use cases
• Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
• Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
• Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
• Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
• Describe vRealize Operations certificates
• Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
• Recognize effective ways to optimize performance, capacity, and cost in data centers
• Troubleshoot and manage problems using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
• Manage configurations
• Configure application monitoring using VMware vRealize® Application Remote Collector™
• Create custom symptoms and alert definitions, reports, and views
• Create various custom dashboards using the dashboard creation canvas
• Configure widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
• Create super metrics
• Set up users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
• Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions
• Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster by using self-monitoring dashboards

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to vRealize Operations
• vRealize Operations Architecture
• Deploying vRealize Operations
• vRealize Operations Concepts
• vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management
• Capacity Optimization
• What-If Scenarios and Costing in vRealize Operations
• Performance Optimization
• Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations
• Application Monitoring in vRealize Operations
• Custom Alert, Views, and Reports
• Custom Dashboards
• Super Metrics
• User Access Control
• Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment

Before taking this course, you must complete at least one the following:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• 6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience