VMware vRealize Operations Manager: Install, Configure, Manage - VROMICM

VMware vRealize™ Operations Manager™: Install, Configure, Manage is designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users and teaches how to use VMware vRealize Operations Manager as a forensic and predictive tool. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.x, VMware vCenter Server™ 5.x, and vRealize Operations Manager 6.0 and includes instruction on advanced capabilities including customization and management.

Completion of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.5]

Or system administration experience with vSphere deployments

Target Audience
Experienced system administrators and system integrators, and consultants responsible for customizing vRealize Operations Manager content

• Navigate the vRealize Operations Manager user interface
• Use alerts and analysis badges to troubleshoot common and complex vSphere operational issues
• Monitor capacity risk and infrastructure utilization
• Perform capacity planning and what-if analyses
• Configure policies to meet the operational needs of the environment
• Customize vRealize Operations Manager by creating alert definitions, symptom definitions, views, reports,
dashboards, and super metrics
• Give users and user groups controlled access to the environment
• Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations Manager by adding management packs and solutions
• Scale a vRealize Operations Manager deployment and make it highly available
• Install and configure vRealize Operations Manager
• Monitor and maintain a vRealize Operations Manager deployment

Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to vRealize Operations Manager
• Describe how vRealize Operations Manager is used to manage the software-defined data center
• Describe the features and benefits of vRealize Operations Manager

vRealize Operations Manager User Interface
• Navigate the main areas of the user interface
• Explain the importance of inventory trees
• View widgets and dashboards on the Home page
• View inventory trees and objects on the Environment page

vRealize Operations Manager Concepts
• Use views to gather information about the environment
• Create reports about the environment
• Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations Manager
• Discuss the importance of alerts, symptoms, and badges

Troubleshooting System Health Issues
• Discuss the process for troubleshooting system health issues with vRealize Operations Manager
• Monitor alerts and troubleshoot system health issues
• Use heat maps to monitor system health

Capacity Planning
• Discuss capacity planning models
• Assess capacity risk in the environment
• Troubleshoot risk and efficiency issues
• Identify ways to optimize resource utilization in the environment
• Use projects to perform what-if scenarios

Tags, Applications, and Object Groups
• Use tags and applications to group objects
• Create custom object groups in the environment

Policies
• List guidelines for customizing vRealize Operations Manager content
• Create policies for different types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

Custom Alert Definitions
• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations and use actions
• Create notifications
• Create alert definitions

Custom Views
• Describe the different types of views
• Create views

Custom Dashboards
• Create custom dashboards
• Configure widgets and widget interactions
• Configure dashboard navigation
• Manage dashboards

Super Metrics
• Create super metrics
• Enable super metrics in policies

User Access Control
• Create local users and user groups
• Assign roles to local users and user groups
• Import users and user groups from an LDAP source

Management Packs
• Describe management packs that are available to the environment
• Install and configure a management pack

Architecture, Scalability, and Availability
• Describe the components of a vRealize Operations Manager node
• Describe the different roles in a vRealize Operations Manager cluster
• Explain how a node's components interact to achieve scalability and availability

Deploying vRealize Operations Manager
• Determine how to size a vRealize Operations Manager cluster
• Install and configure a vRealize Operations Manager cluster
• Monitor and manage a vRealize Operations Manager cluster

Completion of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.5]

Or system administration experience with vSphere deployments

Target Audience
Experienced system administrators and system integrators, and consultants responsible for customizing vRealize Operations Manager content