VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to vRealize Operations

• 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 VMware vRealize® Suite Lifecycle Manager™ to deploy vRealize Operations

vRealize Operations Concepts

• Identify the tasks that can be performed in the administration and product user interfaces
• Recognize how to use dashboards, views, and reports to gather information about the environment
• Use tags, applications, and custom groups to group related objects in the environment

vRealize Operations Architecture

• Describe the functions of the components in a 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

Performance Optimization

• Assess the performance of your environment to determine which data centers need optimization
• Define the business and operational intents for your data centers
• Automate the process of optimizing and balancing workloads in your data centers
• Report on the results of your optimization efforts

Capacity Optimization

• Define capacity planning terminology and capacity planning models
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
• Run what-if scenarios to plan for future resource capacity and workload requirements
• Assess the cost of running the data centers in your environment

Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations

• 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
• Describe how logs can be accessed by integrating vRealize Operations with VMware vRealize® Log Insight™
• View inventory trees on the Environment page to monitor vSphere objects
• Monitor the performance of a vRealize Operations instance

Operating System and Application Monitoring

• Deploy the Endpoint Operations Management agent
• Monitor operating systems by viewing the metrics collected by the Endpoint Operations Management agent

vRealize Operations Policies

• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

Custom Alert Definitions

• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs

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 Metrics

• Create super metrics and associate them with vSphere 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
• Create local users and user groups
• 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