Duration

2 days

Overview

This course, for experienced VMware® vSphere® personnel, teaches skills for the use of VMware® vCenter™ Operations as a forensic and predictive tool. The course is based on VMware vSphere® ESXi™ 5.0, VMware® vCenter™ Server 5.0, and vCenter Operations Manager 5.0.

Course Objectives

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

Understand major and minor badges and their underlying metrics.
Use these badges to find 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.

Target 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

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

2 Introduction to vCenter Operations Manager

Understand the role of Operations Management in the cloud era
Understand the vCenter Operations Manager suite and its packaging

3 Architecture and Concepts

Understand the vCenter Operations Manager application architecture data collection methodology
Learn how vCenter Operations Manager collects data
Master the main components of the Dashboard view
Navigate the objects tree and understand the Badge pane

4 Working with Dashboards and Badges

Understand the function 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

5 Analyzing with Heat Maps

Work with predefined and custom heatmaps through the Analysis tab

6 Working with Smart Alerts

Configure and use smart alerts
Set up email notifications

7 Working with Capacity Planning and Reports

Schedule, use, and export predefined capacity management reports
Perform what-if analysis

8 Installing and Configuring vCenter Operations Manager

Understand and meet preinstallation requirements
Install vCenter Operations Manager
Configure vCenter Operations Manager to gather data from its environment

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