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