VROICM86 — VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage v8.6
VROICM86 - VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage v8.6
Course Overview
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge and skills to deploy a VMware vRealize® Operations™ cluster that meets the monitoring requirements of your environment. This course includes advanced capabilities such as customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards and explains the architecture in vRealize Operations. This course explains application monitoring, certificates, capacity and cost concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using the workbench, alerts, and redefined dashboards and describes how to manage compliance and configurations. This course also covers several management packs.
Product Alignment
VMware vSphere 7.0.3
VMware vRealize® Operations™ 8.6
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
Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational problems
Describe vRealize Operations certificates
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™
Create custom symptoms and alert definitions, reports, and views
Create various custom dashboards using the dashboard creation canvas
Configure widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
Create super metrics
Set up users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions
Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster by using self-monitoring dashboards
Intended Audience
Experienced system administrators and system integrators
Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you must complete at least one the following:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience
Outline
1. Course Introduction
Introduction and course logistics
Course objectives
2. Introduction to vRealize Operations
List the vRealize Operations use cases
Access the vRealize Operations User Interface (UI)
3. vRealize Operations Architecture
Identify the functions of components in a vRealize Operations node
Identify the types of nodes and their role in a vRealize Operations cluster
Outline how high availability is achieved in vRealize Operations
List the components required to enable Continuous Availability (CA)
4. Deploying vRealize Operations
Design and size a vRealize Operations cluster
Deploy a vRealize Operations node
Install a vRealize Operations instance
Describe different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios
5. vRealize Operations Concepts
Identify product UI components
Create and use tags to group objects
Use a custom group to group objects
6. vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management
Describe vRealize Operations certificates
Create policies for various types of workloads
Explain how policy inheritance works
7. Capacity Optimization
Define capacity planning terms
Explain capacity planning models
Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
8. What-If Scenarios and Costing in vRealize Operations
Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
Discuss the types of cost drivers in vRealize Operations
Assess the cost of your data center inventory
9. 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 optimization potential
10. Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations
Describe the troubleshooting workbench
Recognize how to troubleshoot problems 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
11. Operating System and Application Monitoring
Describe native service discovery and application monitoring features
Configure application monitoring
Monitor operating systems and applications by using VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud Appliance™
12. Custom Alerts
Create symptom definitions
Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
Build and use custom views in your environment
13. Custom Views and Reports
Build and use custom views in your environment
Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment
14. 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
15. Super Metrics
Recognize different types of super metrics
Create super metrics and associate them with objects
Enable super metrics in policies
16. User Access Control
Recognize how users are authorized to access objects
Determine privilege priorities when a user has multiple privileges
Import users and user groups from an LDAP source
17. Extending and managing a vRealize Operations Deployment
Identify available management packs in the VMware Marketplace™
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