VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage
- Course Code VMVROMICM
- Duration 5 days
- Version 8.2
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Course Overview
TopThis five-day VMware vRealize course is for users of both cloud and on-premises versions of the VMware vRealize Operations product. It 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 like customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards and explains the architecture in vRealize Operations. This course explains certificates, capacity concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using dashboards and how to manage compliance and configurations. This course also covers several management packs and introduction to VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud™.
In general, this course explains how to use and configure most of the new features and enhancements in version 8.1 and 8.2.
Product Alignment:
- VMware vSphere 7.0 U1
- VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.2
Course Schedule
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- Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
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Date:
13-17 June, 2022
Guaranteed To Run
- Location: Virtual
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- Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
- Date: 03-07 October, 2022
- Location: Virtual
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- Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
- Date: 12-16 December, 2022
- Location: Virtual
Target Audience
Top- vRealize Operations on-premises and cloud customers including experienced system administrators
- System integrators
- Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations.
Course Objectives
TopBy the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
- Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
- Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
- 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 issues and configurations using alerts and dashboards
- List the application monitoring enhancements
- Create custom alert definitions, reports, and views
- Create 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
- Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud features
Course Content
Top• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 Introduction to vRealize Operations
• Outline the use cases for vRealize Operations
• Access the vRealize Operations UIs
• Identify how the product UI supports vRealize Operations use cases
• Describe the role played by the admin UI in managing a vRealize Operations cluster
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
4 Deploying vRealize Operations
• Identify the functions of components in a vRealize Operations node
• Choose an appropriate deployment configuration
• Deploy a vRealize Operations node
• Install a vRealize Operations instance
• Add cloud accounts to vRealize Operations
• Configure native management packs
• Install non-native management packs
5 vRealize Operations Concepts
• Identify the components of the product UI
• Use tags to group objects
• Use applications to group objects
6 Certificate Management and Policies
• Describe vRealize Operations certificates
• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works
7 Performance Optimization
• Introduction to performance optimization
• Define the business and operational intentions for a given data center
• Automate the process of optimizing and balancing the workloads in data centers
• Report on the results of optimization efforts
8 Capacity and Cost Optimization
• Define capacity planning terms
• Understand capacity planning models
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
• Recognize options for rightsizing virtual machines (VMs)
• Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
• Run what-if scenarios to plan the migration of workloads to the public cloud
• Assess the cost of your datacenter inventory
9 Troubleshooting and Managing Configuration
• Describe the troubleshooting workbench
• Recognize how to troubleshoot issues 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
10 Operating System and Application Monitoring
• Recognize how the Service Discovery manager and Telegraf fit into the vRealize Operations OS and app monitoring
• Deploy the Application remote collector
• Monitor the operating system and applications by using Telegraf
11 Custom Alert Definition
• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
12 Custom Views and Reports
• Build and use custom views in your environment
• Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment
13 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
14 Super Metrics
• Recognize different types of super metrics
• Create super metrics and associate them with objects
• Enable super metrics in policies
15 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
16 Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment
• Identify the management packs that are available to your environment
• 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
17 vRealize Operations Cloud Overview
• Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud Features
• Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud onboarding page
• Add cloud accounts
• Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
• APM Integration
Course Prerequisites
TopThis class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere® deployments or completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] --> VSICM
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] --> VSOS