Descrizione
Intended Audience
vRealize Operations on-premises and cloud customers including experienced system administrators, system integrators, and consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations.
Prerequisites
This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere® deployments or completion of one of the following courses:
Objectives
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 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
- Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud features
Outline
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 (CA)
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
5 vRealize Operations Concepts
• Identify the components of the product UI
• Create and use tags to group objects
• Use custom group to group objects
6 vRealize Operations Architecture and Certificates
• Describe vRealize Operations certificates
• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works
7 Capacity Optimization
• Define capacity planning terms
• Understand capacity planning models
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
• 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
• Discuss types of cost drivers in vRealize Operations
• Assess the cost of your datacenter inventory
8 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 potential
9 Troubleshooting and Managing Configuration Pillars
• 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 Application Monitoring in vRealize Operations
• Describe native service discovery and application monitoring features
• Configure the application monitoring
• Monitor the operating system and applications by using vRealize Application Remote Collector
11 Custom Alert Definitions
• 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 in the VMware marketplace
• 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
• Outline cloud services console
• Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud onboarding page and cloud proxy
• Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud features
• Explain the near real-time metric collection feature
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere 7.0 U1
- VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.2
- VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager™ 8.2
