VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage

• Experienced system administrators and 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:

• 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 issues
• 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® Application Remote Collector™
• 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

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 the different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios

5  vRealize Operations Concepts

•  Identify the 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 the vRealize Operations certificates
•  Create policies for the various types of workloads
•  Explain how policy inheritance works

7  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

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 the 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 the different vSphere objects
•  Assess your environment’s compliance to standards
•  View the configurations of vSphere objects in your environment

11  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

12  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

13  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

14  Super Metrics

•  Recognize the 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 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

Before taking this course, you must complete at least one the following:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (VSICM)
• 6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience

Aanbevolen vereisten:

• VSICM - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VSOS - VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale