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VMware vRealize Operations Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]

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Course Overview

This five-day course, designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users, teaches you how to use VMware vRealize® Operations™ as a forensic and predictive tool. Based on VMware ESXi™ 6.7, VMware vCenter Server® 6.7, and vRealize Operations 7.0, this course includes instruction on advanced capabilities, including customization and management.

Course Objectives

  • Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
  • Deploy vRealize Operations
  • Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
  • Recognize how to use vRealize Operations components to build scalability and availability
  • Recognize effective ways to optimize performance and capacity in data centers
  • Troubleshoot and manage issues and configurations using alerts and dashboards
  • Use Endpoint Operations Management to monitor operating systems and applications
  • Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
  • Create custom alert definitions, reports, and views
  • Configure widgets for dashboards
  • Configure 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 solutions

Prerequisites

This class requires completion of one of the following courses or equivalent experience:

  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x]
  • VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.x]
  • Or system administration experience with vSphere deployments

5 days

Course Content: VMware vRealize Operations

1. Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2. Introduction to vRealize Operations

  • Describe how to use vRealize Operations to manage the software-defined data center
  • Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations

3. Deploying vRealize Operations

  • Design and size a vRealize Operations cluster
  • Install a vRealize Operations cluster
  • Configure a vRealize Operations cluster for high availability
  • Describe different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios
  • Use VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager to deploy vRealize Operations

4. vRealize Operations Concepts

  • Identify tasks that can be performed in the administration and product user interfaces
  • Use dashboards, views, and reports to gather information about the environment
  • Use tags, applications, and custom groups to group related objects in the environment

5. vRealize Operations Architecture

  • Describe functions of the components in a node
  • Identify types of nodes and their roles in a vRealize Operations cluster
  • Understand how node components interact to achieve scalability and availability
  • Identify ways that data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations

6. Performance Optimization

  • Assess performance of your environment to determine optimization needs
  • Define business and operational intents for your data centers
  • Automate optimizing and balancing workloads in your data centers
  • Report results of optimization efforts

7. Capacity Optimization

  • Define capacity planning terminology and models
  • Assess overall capacity and identify optimization recommendations
  • Run what-if scenarios for future resource capacity and workload requirements
  • Assess the cost of running data centers

8. Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations

  • Troubleshoot issues using alerts
  • Use step-by-step workflows for vSphere objects
  • Assess compliance to standards
  • View configurations of vSphere objects
  • Integrate vRealize Operations with vRealize Log Insight for log access
  • Monitor vSphere objects and vRealize Operations performance

9. Operating System and Application Monitoring

  • Deploy the Endpoint Operations Management agent
  • Monitor operating systems using the collected metrics

10. vRealize Operations Policies

  • Create policies for various workload types
  • Understand policy inheritance

11. Custom Alert Definitions

  • Create symptom definitions, recommendations, actions, and notifications
  • Create alert definitions for resource demand in hosts and VMs

12. Views and Reports

  • Build and use custom views
  • Create custom reports for presenting data

13. Custom Dashboards

  • Create dashboards using predefined and custom widgets
  • Configure widget interactions and Scoreboard widget metrics
  • Manage dashboards and share with users

14. Super Metrics

  • Create super metrics and associate them with vSphere objects
  • Enable super metrics in policies

15. User Access Control

  • Manage user authorization and privilege priorities
  • Create local users and user groups
  • Import users and groups from an LDAP source

16. Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment

  • Identify available management packs
  • Install and configure management packs
  • Monitor cluster health
  • Generate support bundles
  • View logs and audit reports
  • Perform cluster management tasks