Detailed Course Outline
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 the different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios
vRealize Operations Concepts
- Identify the product UI components
- Create and use tags to group objects
- Use a custom group to group objects
vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management
- Describe the vRealize Operations certificates
- Create policies for the various types of workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works
Capacity Optimization
- Define the capacity planning terms
- Explain the capacity planning models
- Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify the 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 the 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 the different vSphere objects
- Assess your environment’s compliance to standards
- View the configurations of vSphere objects in your environment
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
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
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
Super Metrics
- Recognize the 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 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