When does class start/end?
Classes begin promptly at 9:00 am, and typically end at 5:00 pm.
This course, equivalent to 5 days of training, is designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users to teach you how to use VMware vRealize® Operations™ as a forensic and predictive tool. Based on VMware ESXi™ 6.7, VMware vCenter Server® 6.7, and vRealize Operations 7.0, this course includes instruction on advanced capabilities, including customization and management.
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- Deploy 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
- Use Endpoint Operations Management to monitor operating systems and applications
- Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
- Create custom alert definitions, reports, and views
- Configure widgets for dashboards
- Configure 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 solutions
Who Can Benefit
Experienced system administrators and system integrators, and consultants responsible for customizing vRealize Operations content
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]
- Or system administration experience with vSphere deployments
Course Details
Product Alignment
- vRealize Operations 7.0
- ESXi 6.7
- vCenter Server 6.7
Specialization
This course prepares you for the following specialization:
- VMware vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist
Outline
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
Does the course schedule include a Lunchbreak?
Lunch is normally an hour long and begins at noon. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate and juice are available all day in the kitchen. Fruit, muffins and bagels are served each morning. There are numerous restaurants near each of our centers, and some popular ones are indicated on the Area Map in the Student Welcome Handbooks - these can be picked up in the lobby or requested from one of our ExitCertified staff.
How can someone reach me during class?
If someone should need to contact you while you are in class, please have them call the center telephone number and leave a message with the receptionist.
What languages are used to deliver training?
Most courses are conducted in English, unless otherwise specified. Some courses will have the word "FRENCH" marked in red beside the scheduled date(s) indicating the language of instruction.
What does GTR stand for?
GTR stands for Guaranteed to Run; if you see a course with this status, it means this event is confirmed to run. View our GTR page to see our full list of Guaranteed to Run courses.
How do I find an ExitCertified training location?
We have training locations across the United States and Canada. View a full list of classroom training locations.
Which delivery formats are available?
At ExitCertified we offer training that is Instructor-Led, Online, Virtual and Self-Paced.
Does ExitCertified deliver group training?
Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.
Does ExitCertified deliver group training?
Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals, and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.
Very well organized course and labs were clear. Instructor Sean Mohseni was an excellent. Will highly recommend this course/vendor and instructor to others.
This was a great training class. The instructor explained the concepts very well and covered all topics in detail also allowing sufficient time for labs.
Communications were good and team was available to answer questions at any time.
The instructor was very clear and organized, and the labs provided was very helpful.
The instructor was very good but there were a few technical problems form cognizant's end that made things difficult from time to time.
