Duration

3 days

Course Overview

This training course focuses on the advanced capabilities of VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™ 5.6, such as

adapters, customization and management topics. You will learn how to use adapters, define custom super metrics, customize dashboards, and use the Custom user interface. The course is based on vCenter Operations Manager 5.6, and integration with VMware® vSphere® 5.1, VMware vCloud Director® 5.1, and VMware® vFabric™ Hyperic®

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Identify the capabilities of adapters, their use cases, availability, and installation.

Describe super metrics, attributes, and attribute packages as well as object tagging.

Manage user access to the VMware vCenter Operations Manager Custom UI.

Work with smart alerts and custom alert notification.

Use custom dashboards to build specific views for operations and application monitoring.

Audience

System administrators and consultants responsible for customizing vCenter Operations Manager to expand from

the vSphere User Interface to a customized environment

Course Modules

1. Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

2. vCenter Operations Manager Advanced Architecture

Introduce vCenter Operations Manager architecture

Explain sizing guidelines

Describe vCenter Operations Manager availability and backup

3. Advanced Capacity Planning

Examine planning models

Define policy management

4. Adapters for Data Collection

Understand adapters

Identify available adapters

Install and configure adapters

Troubleshoot adapters

5. Applications, Groups, and Tags

Introduce the application design concept in vCenter Operations Manager

Configure and use attribute packages and KPIs

Create tags and groups

6. Metrics, Super Metrics, KPI, and Attribute Packaging

Understanddata collection

Describe super metrics

7. Dashboards

Introduce custom dashboards

Manage widgets

Manage interactions

Manage templates

8. Smart Alerts and Custom Alerts

Work with and troubleshoot alerts

Configure alert notifications

9. Report Customization

Introduce custom reports

Understand data sources and report structure

Manage custom reports

10. User and Role Management

Manage user and role permissions for the vSphere UI

Manage user and group permissions for the Custom UI

11. Troubleshooting

Identify the basic troubleshooting workflows

Understand Self Info and self-monitoring of vCenter Operations Manager

Examine the Support Page in the Custom UI

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.