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
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