When does class start/end?
Classes begin promptly at 9:00 am, and typically end at 5:00 pm.
This two-day course is designed for data center administrators who are responsible for the day-to-day management of a VMware vSphere® environment using VMware vRealize® Operations™. This course will teach you how to use vRealize Operations as a forensic and predictive tool. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 6.7, VMware vCenter Server® 6.7, and vRealize Operations 7.0.
This two-day course is designed for data center administrators who are responsible for the day-to-day management of a VMware vSphere® environment using VMware vRealize® Operations™. This course will teach you how to use vRealize Operations as a forensic and predictive tool. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 6.7, VMware vCenter Server® 6.7, and vRealize Operations 7.0.Note: If you have taken the VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage course, duplicate content makes this course unsuitable for you.
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
- Recognize how to use vRealize Operations components to build scalability and availability
- Recognize effective ways to optimize performance and capacity in data centers
- Troubleshoot and manage issues and configurations using alerts and dashboards
- Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
Intended Audience
Experienced system administrators
Prerequisites
This class requires completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x]
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.x]
Product Alignment
- vRealize Operations 7.0
- ESXi 6.7
- vCenter Server 6.7
Outline
1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2 Introduction to vRealize Operations
- Describe how vRealize Operations is used to manage the software-defined data center
- Describe the features and benefits of vRealize Operations
3 vRealize Operations Concepts
- Navigate the main pages of the product user interface
- Use the product UI and the admin UI
- Use tags, applications, and groups to group related objects in the environment
4 vRealize Operations Architecture
- Describe the function of the components in a node
- Describe the roles in a vRealize Operations cluster
5 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
6 Capacity Optimization
- Define capacity planning terminology and capacity planning models
- Assess the overall capacity of a data center and provide optimization recommendations
- Use what-if scenarios to plan for future capacity requirements
- Assess the cost of running the data centers in your environment
7 Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations
- Use predefined 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™
- Use inventory trees on the Environment page to monitor vSphere objects
- Monitor the performance of the vRealize Operations instance
8 Policies
- Create policies for various types of workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works
Who Can Benefit
Experienced system administrators