Live-Online: VMware vRealize Operations: Advanced Use Cases (v8.x)

1. Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

2. Custom Groups and Applications

• Outline the use cases for custom groups
• Create the custom groups
• Assign the objects to custom groups
• Identify the use cases for applications
• Create the custom applications
• Identify the vRealize Network Insight applications

3. Custom Dashboard Design

• Design the dashboards
• Discuss the types of widgets and widget’s settings
• Select the widgets based on the scenario
• Explain the advanced dashboards
• Discuss the use cases of dashboards

4. Custom Policies

• Outline the components of a vRealize Operations policy
• Review the policies applied to the objects in vRealize Operations
• Outline how the policy hierarchy is implemented
• Design a vRealize Operations Policy
• Understand how a policy supports the business objectives

5. Alerts, Symptoms and Troubleshooting workbench

• Identify the use case for custom alerts and symptoms
• Create the custom alerts and symptoms
• Access the troubleshooting workbench feature
• Use the troubleshooting workbench feature to identify problems
• Outline the metric correlation options in vRealize Operations

6. Capacity Models and What-if Scenarios

• Review the capacity planning concepts
• Describe the demand based and allocation-based model
• Discuss the use cases of capacity models
• Discuss the use cases of what-if analysis scenarios

7. vRealize Operations integration

• Integrate vRealize Operations with products in vRealize Suite
• Identify the advantages of integrating vRealize Operations with vRealize Log Insight
• Import the vRealize Network Insight applications
• Configure the integration with vRealize Automation

8. Super Metrics

• Create super metrics
• Explain the depth value
• Discuss the use cases of super metrics
• vRealize Operations REST API
• Outline the REST API architecture
• Navigate the REST API landing page
• Discuss the Swagger response codes
• Explain the vRealize Operations traversal specification
• Create and query objects using the REST API
• Discuss some of the examples of the REST API

• Using applications to group objects
• Creating logical groups of objects in the vRealize Operations environment
• Creating and designing advanced dashboards
• Discussing widgets and their settings
• Defining a vRealize Operations policy
• Explaining the components of a vRealize Operations policy
• Creating custom alarms
• Describing the Troubleshooting Workbench
• Reviewing advanced capacity concepts
• Discussing what-if analysis scenarios
• Describing the integration of vRealize Operations with VMware vRealize® Suite products
• Importing VMware vRealize® Network Insight® applications
• Describing use cases for Super Metrics
• Outlining the vRealize Operations REST API architecture
• Discussing the vRealize Operations Traversal Specification
• Creating and querying objects using the REST API

This course is aimed at experienced system administrators and consultants, application owners, and system architects. You should have hands-on experience managing vSphere 6.x/7.x implementations.