Target group
Experienced system administrators and system integrators, and consultants responsible for customizing vRealize Operations content
Course structure
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
User Interface Enhancements
- Describe how to use vRealize Operations to manage the software-defined data center
- Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
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
- Describe how to use vRealize Lifecycle Manager to deploy vRealize Operations
vRealize Operations Architecture and Certificates
- Describe the functions of the components in a vRealize Operations node
- Identify the types of nodes and their roles in a vRealize Operations cluster
- Recognize how a node’s components interact to achieve scalability and availability
- Identify ways that data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations
- Describe vRealize Operations certificates
vRealize Operations Concepts and Policies
- Identify the tasks that can be performed in the administration and product user interfaces
- Describe dashboards and their usage
- Use tags to group objects
- Create policies for various types of workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works
Performance Optimization
- Assess the performance of your environment to determine which data centers need optimization
- Define the business and operational intents for a given data center
- Automate the process of optimizing and balancing the workloads in data centers
- Report on the results of optimization efforts
Capacity Optimization and Costing
- Define capacity planning terms
- Understand capacity planning models
- Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
- Recognize options for rightsizing VMs
- 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
Managing Configurations and Troubleshooting Pillars
- 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
Operating System and Application Monitoring
- Recognize how the Service Discovery manager and Telegraf fits into the vRealize Operations OS and app monitoring
- Deploy the Application remote collector
- Monitor the operating system and applications by using Telegraf
Custom Alert Definition
- Create symptom definitions
- Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
- Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
Custom Views and Reports
- Build and use custom views in your environment
- Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment
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
Super Metric
- Recognize different types of super metrics
- Create super metrics and associate them with objects
- Enable super metrics in policies
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
Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment
- Identify the management packs that are available to your environment
- Install and configure a management pack
- 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
