Objective
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 Appliance™
- 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
Outline
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
