VMware vRealize Operations for Operators [V8.2]

This two-day course is for users who are responsible for day-to-day management of VMware vRealize® Operations. This course explains policies and capacity concepts and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using workbench, alerts, and Predefined dashboards and how to manage compliance and configurations.

Note: If you have taken the VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage course, duplicate content makes this course unsuitable for you.

Product Alignment

• VMware vSphere 7.0 U1
• VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.2

This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere® deployments or completion of one of the following courses:

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

• Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
• Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
• 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 issues using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
• Manage configurations
• Configure application monitoring using VMware vRealize® Application Remote Collector™
• Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions
• Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster
• Perform cluster management tasks

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to vRealize Operations

• Outline the use cases for vRealize Operations
• Access the vRealize Operations UIs
• Identify how the product UI supports vRealize Operations use cases
• Describe the role played by the admin UI in managing a vRealize Operations cluster

vRealize Operations Concepts

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

vRealize Operations Policies

• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

Capacity Optimization

• Define capacity concepts
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
• Assess the cost of your datacenter inventory
• Configure the currency type and cost settings for your environment

Performance Optimization

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

Troubleshooting and Managing Configuration Pillars

• Describe the troubleshooting workbench
• Recognize how to troubleshoot issues by monitoring alerts
• Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot 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 native service discovery and application monitoring features
• Configure the application monitoring
• Monitor the operating system and applications by using vRealize Application Remote Collector

Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment

• View vRealize Operations logs and generate a support bundle
• Perform vRealize Operations cluster management tasks