Live-Online: VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage (V8.6)

1. Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

2. Introduction to vRealize Operations

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

3. 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)

4. Deploying vRealize Operations

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

5. vRealize Operations Concepts

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

6. vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management

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

7. Capacity Optimization

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

8. 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

9. 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 optimization potential

10. Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations

• Describe the troubleshooting workbench
• Recognize how to troubleshoot problems 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

11. Operating System and Application Monitoring

• Describe native service discovery and application monitoring features
• Configure application monitoring
• Monitor operating systems and applications by using VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud Appliance™

12. Custom Alerts

• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
• Build and use custom views in your environment

13. Custom Views and Reports

• Build and use custom views in your environment
• Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment

14. Custom Dashboards

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

15. Super Metrics

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

16. 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

17. Extending and managing a vRealize Operations Deployment

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

• Listing vRealize Operations use cases
• Identifying features and benefits of vRealize Operations
• Determining the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
• Deploying and configuring a vRealize Operations cluster
• Using interface features to assess and resolve operational issues
• Describing vRealize Operations certificates
• Creating policies to meet the operational requirements of your environment
• Identifying effective ways to optimize performance, capacity, and costs in data centers
• Troubleshooting and managing issues using Workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
• Managing configurations
• Configuring application monitoring with VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud Appliance™
• Creating custom symptoms and alert definitions, reports, and views
• Creating various custom dashboards using the dashboard creation interface
• Configuring widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
• Creating super metrics
• Setting up users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
• Extending the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions
• Monitoring the health of the vRealize Operations cluster using self-monitoring dashboards

This course is aimed at experienced system administrators and system integrators, as well as consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations. Before attending this course, you must have at least 6 months of hands-on experience with vRealize Operations.