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