Duration

2 days

Course Overview

This course for experienced users of VMware® vSphere® teaches skills in the use of VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™ as a forensic and predictive tool. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.x, VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.x, and vCenter Operations Manager 5.x.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, you should be able to do the following:

Understand major and minor badges and their underlying metrics.
Use these badges to find the root causes of common operational issues in a vSphere environment.
Perform capacity management and what-if analyses.
Use the Operations tab, the Planning tab, the Alerts tab, the Analysis tab, and the Reports tab.
Navigate the vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 user interface.
Use heat maps and create a custom heat map.
Use smart alerts to detect system issues.
Articulate the use case for the new policy structure in vCenter Operations Manager and how it can be used to define configuration settings for objects in a vSphere environment.
Work with groups to classify virtual objects in logical and business-related structures and how to apply them to policies.
Define new use cases based on the optimized integration with VMware® vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™ products like VMware® vCenter Configuration Manager™, VMware® vFabric™ Hyperic®, VMware® vCenter™ Infrastructure Navigator™, and other adapters.

Audience

Experienced system administrators and system integrators

Prerequisites

Hands-on experience administering vSphere 5 deployments
Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5] recommended

Course Modules

Course Introduction
Identify the course goals
Identify the course objectives
View the course module outline
Introduction to VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
Understand the role of operations management in the cloud era
Understand the vCenter Operations Management Suite and its packaging
Architecture and Concepts
Understand the data collection methodology of the vCenter Operations Manager architecture
Learn how vCenter Operations Manager collects data
Master the main components of the dashboard view
Navigate the objects tree and understand the badge pane
Working with Dashboards and Badges
Understand the functions of major and minor badges
Use the Health major badge
Use the Risk major badge
Use the Efficiency major badge
Use the Operations tab to navigate to details
Analyzing with Heat Maps
Work with predefined and custom heat maps through the Analysis tab
Working with Smart Alerts
Configure and use smart alerts
Set up email notifications
Working with Capacity Planning and Reports
Schedule, use, and export predefined capacity management reports
Perform what-if analyses
Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Operations Manager
Understand and meet preinstallation requirements
Install vCenter Operations Manager
Configure vCenter Operations Manager to gather data from its environment
VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite Update
Discuss the VMware management suite solution and products
List the key components and capabilities of vCenter Operations Management Suite
Describe the main features available in each of the vCenter Operations Management Suite products and editions
VMware vCenter Operations Manager v5.6 Changes
Discuss configuration of policies and groups
Identify basic use cases and benefits from using policies and groups
Make changes to the vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 configurations
Explain changes to badges, metrics, and reports in version 5.6 of vCenter Operations Manager
Integration with Other VMware Products
Identify use cases for the integration of additional vCenter Operations Management Suite products
Discuss integration with vCenter Operations Manager for group management
Learn about new dashboard badges in vCenter Operations Manager

This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.