VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage

• vRealize Operations on-premises and cloud customers including experienced system administrators
• System integrators
• Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations.

By 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

1  Course Introduction

•  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

This 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