VMware vRealize Operations: Install Configure Manage [v8] ...

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 User Interface Enhancements

• 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

• Describe how to use vRealize Lifecycle Manager to deploy vRealize Operations

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 Custom Alert Definition

• Create symptom definitions

• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications

• Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs

11 Custom Views and Reports

• Build and use custom views in your environment

• Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment

12 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

13 Super Metric

• Recognize different types of super metrics

• Create super metrics and associate them with objects

• Enable super metrics in policies

14 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

15 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