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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. |
Audience | 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]
- 6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience
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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
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Teaching method | Presentations - Demos - Facilitated and individual exercises |
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Contents | 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)
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vRealize Operations Concepts - Identify the product UI components
- Create and use tags to group objects
- Use a custom group to group objects
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vRealize Operations Policies - Create policies for the various workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works
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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
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Costing in vRealize Operations - Discuss about the cost drivers in vRealize Operations
- Assess the cost of your data center inventory
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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
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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
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Operating System and Application Monitoring - Describe the native service discovery and application monitoring feature
- Configure the application monitoring
- Monitor the operating systems and applications
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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
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