VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.2]
This five-day course is for users of cloud and on-premises versions of the VMware vRealize® Operations™ product. Provides the knowledge and skills necessary to implement a 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 the concepts of certificates, capabilities, and costs, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. The course covers troubleshooting using the predefined workbench, alerts and dashboards, and how to manage compliance and configurations. The course also covers several management packages and introduces VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud™.
In general, the course explains how to use and configure most of the new features and improvements in version 8.1 and 8.2.
SKU : VROPSICM82
Categories : 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
vRealize Operations on-premises and cloud customers, including experienced system administrators, systems integrators, and consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations.
Prerequisites
This course requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere® implementations or completion of one of the following courses:
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements.
- Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
- Identify the features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- Use the interface features to evaluate and troubleshoot operational issues.
- 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.
- Discuss the capabilities of vRealize Operations Cloud
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Introduction to vRealize Operations
- Outline vRealize Operations use cases
- Access the vRealize Operations UIs
- Identify how the product user interface supports vRealize Operations use cases.
- Describe the role that the user interface plays in managing a vRealize Operations cluster.
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 Deploying vRealize Operations
- Identify component functions in a vRealize Operations node
- Choose an appropriate deployment configuration
- Deploy a vRealize Operations node
- Install an instance of vRealize Operations
- Add cloud accounts to vRealize Operations
5 vRealize Operations Concepts
- Identify the user interface components of the product
- Create and use tags to group objects
- Use custom groups 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 Optimizing capacity
- Define capacity planning terms
- Understand capacity planning models
- Evaluate the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations.
- Run “what-if” scenarios to add workloads to a data center.
- Run what-if scenarios to plan workload migration to public cloud.
- Discuss the types of cost drivers in vRealize Operations
- Evaluate the cost of data center inventory
8 Optimizing performance
- Introduction to performance tuning
- Define business and operational intentions for a particular data center
- Automate the process of optimizing and balancing workloads in data centers
- Report on the results of the optimization potential
9 Troubleshooting and managing configuration pillars
- Describe the troubleshooting workbench
- Recognize how to troubleshoot by monitoring alerts
- Use step-by-step workflows for troubleshooting multiple vSphere objects
- Evaluate the compliance of the environment with the standards
- View the configurations of vSphere objects in your environment.
10 Monitoring Applications in vRealize Operations
- Describe native service discovery and application monitoring capabilities
- Configure application monitoring
- Monitor your operating system and applications using vRealize Application Remote Collector
11 Custom alert definitions
- Create symptom definitions
- Create recommendations, actions and notifications
- Create alert definitions to monitor resource demand on hosts and virtual machines.
12 Custom views and reports
- Create and use custom views in your environment
- Create custom reports to present environment 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
- Identify the management packages available on the VMware market.
- Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
- Generate a support bundle
- View vRealize Operations audit logs and reports
- Perform the vRealize Operations cluster management tasks
17 vRealize Operations Cloud Overview
- Overview of the cloud services console
- Discuss vRealize Operations Cloud onboarding page and cloud proxy
- Discuss the capabilities of vRealize Operations Cloud
- Explain the near real-time metrics collection feature
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
