Course Overview
This two-day course is for users who are responsible for day-to-day management of VMware vRealize® Operations™. This course explains policies, capacity concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers application monitoring, troubleshooting using workbench, alerts, predefined dashboards, and explains how to manage compliance and configurations.
Note: If you have taken the VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage course, duplicate content makes this course unsuitable for you.
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere® 7.0.3
- VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.6
Who should attend
vRealize Operations on-premises customers including operators and system administrators.
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you must complete at least one of the following:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] (VSICM8)
- 6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- List the vRealize Operations use cases
- Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational problems
- 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 problems using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
- Manage configurations
- Configure application monitoring using VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud Appliance™
- Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster
- Perform cluster management tasks
Course Content
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Introduction to vRealize Operations
- List the vRealize Operations use cases
- Access the vRealize Operations User Interface (UI)
vRealize Operations Concepts
- Identify the product UI components
- Create and use tags to group objects
- Use a custom group to group objects
vRealize Operations Policies
- Create policies for the various workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works
Capacity Optimization
- Define the capacity planning terms
- Explain the capacity planning models
- Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify the optimization recommendations
Costing in vRealize Operations
- Discuss about the cost drivers in vRealize Operations
- Assess the cost of your data center inventory
Performance Optimization
- Introduction to performance optimization
- Define the 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
Troubleshooting and Managing Configuration
- Describe the troubleshooting workbench
- Recognize how to troubleshoot problems by monitoring alerts
- Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot the vSphere objects
- Assess your environment’s compliance to standards
- View the configurations of the vSphere objects in your environment
Operating System and Application Monitoring
- Describe the native service discovery and application monitoring features
- Configure the application monitoring
- Monitor the operating systems and applications
Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment
- Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
- Generate a support bundle
- View the vRealize Operations log files and audit reports
- Perform the vRealize Operations cluster management tasks