VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.6]
This five-day hands-on training course provides the knowledge and skills needed to implement a VMware vRealize® Operations™ cluster that meets environment monitoring requirements. The course includes advanced features such as customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards, and explains the vRealize Operations architecture. The course explains application monitoring, certificates, capacity and cost concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. The course covers troubleshooting using the redesigned workbench, alerts and dashboards, and describes how to manage compliance and configurations. The course also covers different management packages.
COD: VROPSICM86
Categorie: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
Experienced system administrators and system integrators
Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations
Prerequisites
Before participating in this course, you must:
- Complete the VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage course
- Have at least 6 months of hands-on experience in vRealize Operations
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- List vRealize Operations use cases
- Identify the features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements.
- Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
- Use the interface functions to evaluate and troubleshoot operational problems.
- Describe vRealize Operations certificates
- Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
- Recognize effective ways to optimize data center performance, capacity and costs.
- Troubleshoot and manage issues using pre-built workbenches, alerts and dashboards.
- Manage configurations
- Configure application monitoring using VMware vRealize® Application Remote Collector™.
- Create custom symptoms and alert, report, and view definitions
- Create various custom dashboards using the Dashboard Builder canvas
- Configure widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
- Create super metrics
- Setting up users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
- Extend the functionality of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions.
- Monitor the health of your vRealize Operations cluster using self-monitoring dashboards
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Introduzione a vRealize Operations
- List vRealize Operations use cases
- Access the vRealize Operations user interface (UI).
3 vRealize Operations architecture
- Identify the functions of the components of a vRealize Operations node.
- Identify the types of nodes and their role in a vRealize Operations cluster.
- Explain how high availability is achieved in vRealize Operations
- List the components required to enable Continuous Availability (CA).
4 Implementing vRealize Operations
- Design and size a vRealize Operations cluster
- Deploy a vRealize Operations node
- Install an instance of vRealize Operations
- Describe the different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios
5 vRealize Operations Concepts
- Identify the user interface components of the product
- Create and use tags to group objects
- Use a custom group to group objects
6 vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management
- Describe vRealize Operations certificates
- Create policies for various types of workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works
7 Optimizing capacity
- Define capacity planning terms
- Explain capacity planning models
- Evaluate the overall capacity of a data center and identify 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
- Evaluate the cost of data center inventory
9 Performance optimization
- Introduction to performance tuning
- Define 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 configuration management
- Describe the troubleshooting workbench
- Recognize how to troubleshoot by monitoring alerts
- Use step-by-step workflows for troubleshooting different vSphere objects.
- Evaluate the compliance of the environment with the standards
- View the configurations of vSphere objects in your environment.
11 Application Monitoring in vRealize Operations
- Describe native service discovery and application monitoring capabilities
- Configure application monitoring
- Monitor operating systems and applications using vRealize Application Remote Collector.
12 Custom alerts, views and reports
- Create symptom definitions
- Create recommendations, actions and notifications
- Create alert definitions to monitor resource demand on hosts and virtual machines.
- Create and use custom views in your environment
- Create custom reports for presenting environmental data.
13 Custom dashboards
- Create dashboards using pre-built and custom widgets.
- Configure widgets to interact with other widgets and dashboards.
- Configure the Scoreboard widget to use a metrics configuration file.
- Manage dashboards by grouping and sharing them 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
- Identificare i management pack disponibili in VMware Marketplace™.
- Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
- Generate a support bundle
- View vRealize Operations audit reports and log files
- Perform the vRealize Operations cluster management tasks
Duration – 5 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
