Duration
5 Days
30 CPD hours
This course is intended for
Experienced system administrators and system integrators
Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize
Operations
Overview
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
List the vRealize Operations use cases
Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring
requirements
Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational problems
Describe vRealize Operations certificates
Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
Recognize effective ways to optimize performance, capacity, and cost in data
centers
Troubleshoot and manage problems using workbench, alerts, and predefined
dashboards
Manage configurations
Configure application monitoring using VMware vRealize Operations Cloud
Applianceâ¢
Create custom symptoms and alert definitions, reports, and views
Create various custom dashboards using the dashboard creation canvas
Configure widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
Create super metrics
Set up users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and
configuring solutions
Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster by using self-monitoring
dashboards
This course provides you with the knowledge and skills to deploy a VMware
vRealize Operations cluster that meets the monitoring requirements of your
environment.This course includes advanced capabilities such as customizing
alerts, views, reports, and dashboards and explains the deployment and
architecture in vRealize Operations. This course explains application
monitoring, certificates, policies, capacity and cost concepts, and workload
optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using
the workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards, and how to manage compliance
and configurations. This course also covers several management packs.
COURSE INTRODUCTION
* Introduction and course logistics
* Course objectives
INTRODUCTION TO VREALIZE OPERATIONS
* List the vRealize Operations use cases
* Access the vRealize Operations User Interface (UI)
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)
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
VREALIZE OPERATIONS CONCEPTS
* Identify product UI components
* Create and use tags to group objects
* Use a custom group to group objects
VREALIZE OPERATIONS POLICIES AND CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT
* Describe vRealize Operations certificates
* Create policies for various types of workloads
* Explain how policy inheritance works
CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION
* Define capacity planning terms
* Explain capacity planning models
* Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization
recommendations
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
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
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
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?
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
CUSTOM VIEWS AND REPORTS
* Build and use custom views in your environment
* Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment
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
SUPER METRICS
* Recognize different types of super metrics
* Create super metrics and associate them with objects
* Enable super metrics in policies
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
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
ADDITIONAL COURSE DETAILS:
Notes
Delivery by TDSynex, Exit Certified and New Horizons an VMware Authorised
Training Centre (VATC)
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