This five-day course, designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users, teaches you how to use VMware vRealize® Operations™ as a forensic and predictive tool. Based on VMware ESXi™ 6.5, VMware vCenter Server® 6.5, and vRealize Operations 6.6, this course includes instruction on advanced capabilities, including customization and management.
Product Alignment
- vRealize Operations 6.6
- ESXi 6.5
- vCenter Server 6.5
Product Alignment
- vRealize Operations 6.6
- ESXi 6.5
- vCenter Server 6.5
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
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Navigate the vRealize Operations user interface
- Use alerts and analysis badges to troubleshoot common and complex vSphere operational issues
- Monitor capacity risk and infrastructure utilization
- Perform capacity planning and what-if analyses
- Use workload placement to rebalance workloads
- Configure policies to meet the operational needs of the environment
- Customize vRealize Operations by creating alert definitions, symptom definitions, views, reports, dashboards, and super metrics
- Give users and user groups controlled access to the environment
- Monitor operating systems and applications
- Extend capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and solutions
- Scale a vRealize Operations deployment and make it highly available
- Install and configure vRealize Operations
- Monitor and maintain a vRealize Operations deployment
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- 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
- vRealize Operations User Interface
- Navigate the main areas of the user interface
- Explain the importance of inventory trees
- View widgets and dashboards on the Home page
- View inventory trees and objects on the Environment page
- vRealize Operations Concepts
- Use views to gather information about the environment
- Create reports about the environment
- Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations
- List the functions of the analytics component
- Discuss key indicators in the user interface that provide warnings about potential issues
- Use alerts to identify root causes for performance, capacity, and utilization issues
- Use symptoms to indicate a potential issue
- Use badges to visually analyze your environment to identify good or bad conditions for the entire environment
- Troubleshooting System Health Issues
- Discuss the process for troubleshooting system health issues
- Troubleshoot system health alerts
- Troubleshoot a user’s performance issue
- Use health weather maps and heat maps to monitor system health
- Capacity Planning
- Define capacity planning terminology
- Discuss capacity planning models
- Monitor for capacity risk in the environment
- Troubleshoot risk issues
- Troubleshoot efficiency issues
- Identify ways to optimize resource use
- Use projects to perform what-if scenarios
- Tags, Application Groups, and Custom Object Groups
- Use tags and applications to group objects
- Create custom object groups in the environment
- Policies
- List guidelines for customizing vRealize Operations
- Import and export content
- Create policies for various types of workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works
- Intelligent Workload Placement
- Identify scenarios that use intelligent workload placement
- Use intelligent workload placement to rebalance workloads across the environment
- Use policies to drive workload balance plan recommendations
- Custom Alert Definitions
- Create symptom definitions
- Create recommendations and use actions
- Create actions
- Create notifications
- Create alert definitions
- Custom Views
- Build and use custom views in your environment
- Custom Dashboards
- Create custom dashboards
- Configure widgets
- Configure widget interactions
- Configure the Scoreboard widget to use a metric configuration file
- Configure dashboard navigation
- Specify the dashboard used on the Summary tab of an object
- Organize dashboards in folders
- Share dashboards
- Super Metrics
- Create super metrics
- Enable super metrics in policies
- User Access Control
- Explain how users are authorized to access objects
- Explain how privileges are prioritized when a user has multiple privileges
- Create local users and user groups
- Import users and user groups from an LDAP source
- Operating System and Application Monitoring
- Deploy operating system and application monitoring
- Monitor operating systems and applications
- Management Packs
- Explore the management packs that are available for your environment
- Install and configure a management pack
- Architecture, Scalability, and Availability
- Describe the function of the components in a node
- Describe the roles in a vRealize Operations cluster
- Explain how a node’s components interact to achieve scalability and availability
- Deploying vRealize Operations
- Install a vRealize Operations cluster
- Configure a vRealize Operations cluster
- Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
- Generate a support bundle
- View logs
- Perform cluster management tasks
Who Can Benefit
Experienced system administrators and system integrators, and consultants responsible for customizing vRealize Operations content