VMware vRealize Operations v8: Install, Configure, Manage

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

User Interface Enhancements

• Describe how to use vRealize Operations to manage the software-defined data center
• Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations

Deploying vRealize Operations

• Design and size a vRealize Operations cluster
• Install a vRealize Operations cluster
• Configure a vRealize Operations cluster for high availability
• Describe different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios
• Describe how to use vRealize Lifecycle Manager to deploy vRealize Operations

vRealize Operations Architecture and Certificates

• Describe the functions of the components in a vRealize Operations node
• Identify the types of nodes and their roles in a vRealize Operations cluster
• Recognize how a node’s components interact to achieve scalability and availability
• Identify ways that data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations
• Describe vRealize Operations certificates

vRealize Operations Concepts and Policies

• Identify the tasks that can be performed in the administration and product user interfaces
• Describe dashboards and their usage
• Use tags to group objects
• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

Performance Optimization

• Assess the performance of your environment to determine which data centers need optimization
• Define the business and operational intents for a given data center
• Automate the process of optimizing and balancing the workloads in data centers
• Report on the results of optimization efforts

Capacity Optimization and Costing

• Define capacity planning terms
• Understand capacity planning models
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
• Recognize options for rightsizing VMs
• Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
• Run what-if scenarios to plan the migration of workloads to the public cloud

Managing Configurations and Troubleshooting Pillars

• 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

Operating System and Application Monitoring

• Recognize how the Service Discovery manager and Telegraf fits into the vRealize Operations OS and
  app monitoring
• Deploy the Application remote collector
• Monitor the operating system and applications by using Telegraf 10 Custom Alert Definition
• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs 11 Custom Views and Reports
• Build and use custom views in your environment
• Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment 12 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 13 Super Metric
• Recognize different types of super metrics
• Create super metrics and associate them with objects
• Enable super metrics in policies 14 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 15 Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment
• Identify the management packs that are available to your environment
• Install and configure a management pack
• 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

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

• Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
• Deploy vRealize Operations
• Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
• Recognize how to use vRealize Operations components to build scalability and availability
• Recognize effective ways to optimize performance, capacity, and cost in data centers
• Troubleshoot and manage issues and configurations using alerts and dashboards
• Use Telegraf to monitor operating systems and applications
• Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
• Create custom alert definitions, reports, and views
• Configure widgets for dashboards
• Configure super metrics
• Set up users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
• Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs, solutions, and self-monitoring

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

Experienced system administrators, system integrators, and consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations.