VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage

Course subjects

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 the different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios

5. vRealize Operations Concepts

• Identify the 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 the vRealize Operations certificates

• Create policies for the various types of workloads

• Explain how policy inheritance works

7. Capacity Optimisation

• Define the capacity planning terms

• Explain the capacity planning models

• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify the optimisation 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 Optimisation

• Introduction to performance optimisation

• Define the business and operational intentions for a data center

• Automate the process of optimising and balancing workloads in data centers

• Report the results of the optimisation potential

10. Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations

• Describe the troubleshooting workbench

• Recognise how to troubleshoot problems by monitoring alerts

• Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot the different vSphere objects

• Assess your environment’s compliance to standards

• View the configurations of vSphere objects in your environment

11. Application Monitoring in vRealize Operations

• Describe the native service discovery and application monitoring features

• Configure the application monitoring

• Monitor the operating systems and applications by using vRealize Application Remote Collector

12. Custom Alert, Views, and Reports

• Create the symptom definitions

• Create the recommendations, actions, and notifications

• Create the alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs

• Build and use the custom views in your environment

• Create the custom reports for presenting data about your environment

13. Custom Dashboards

• Create the dashboards that use the predefined and custom widgets

• Configure the widgets to interact with the other widgets and other dashboards

• Configure the Scoreboard widget to use a metric configuration file

• Manage the dashboards by grouping dashboards and sharing dashboards with users

14. Super Metrics

• Recognise the different types of super metrics

• Create super metrics and associate them with objects

• Enable super metrics in policies

15. User Access Control

• Recognise how users are authorised to access objects

• Determine privilege priorities when a user has multiple privileges

• Import users and user groups from an LDAP source

16. Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment

• Identify the available management packs in VMware Marketplace™

• Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster

• Generate a support bundle

• View the vRealize Operations log files and audit reports

• Perform the vRealize Operations cluster management tasks