VMware vRealize Operations Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [v8.x]

Description

Overview:

This five-day course includes instruction on advanced capabilities, including customization and management, and explains the architecture of VMware vRealize® and different ways of deploying vRealize operations. This course explains certificates, capacity concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using dashboards and how-to managing configurations. This course also covers management packs such as those for or in the SDDC Management Health solution, VMware vRealize® Service DiscoveryTM Management Pack, and VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™.

Prerequisite(s):

This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere® deployments or completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.x]

Audience:

Experienced system administrators, system integrators, and consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations.

Outline:

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: User Interface Enhancements

• Describe how to use vRealize Operations to manage the software-defined data center
• Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 10: Custom Alert Definition

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

Module 11: Custom Views and Reports

• Build and use custom views in your environment
• Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment