Introduction
This five-day course covers advanced capabilities like customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards and explains the architecture and different ways of deploying VMware vRealize® operations. This course explains certificates, capacity concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases and covers troubleshooting using dashboards and how-to manage compliance and configurations. The course also covers management packs such as those for or in the SDDC Management Health solution, Storage Devices Management Pack, and AWS Management Pack.
In general, this course explains how to use and configure most of the new features and enhancements in vRealize version 8.0.
This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware vRealize
Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] - On Demand.
Product Alignment
VMware vSphere 6.7 U3
VMware vRealize Operations Manager™ 8.0
VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager™ 8.0
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Identify features and benefits of VMware vRealize® OperationsTM
Design, size, and deploy a vRealize Operations cluster
Identify the types of nodes and their roles in a vRealize Operations cluster
Recognize how to use vRealize Operations components to build scalability and availability
Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
Recognize effective ways to optimize performance, capacity, and cost in data centers
Troubleshoot and manage issues and configurations using alerts and dashboards
Use Telegraf to monitor operating systems and applications
Create custom alert definitions, reports, and views
Course Outline :: VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]::
Create custom dashboards using the dashboard creation canvas
Configure widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
Create 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 configuring solutions
Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster by using self-monitoring dashboards
Intended Audience
Experienced system administrators, system integrators, and consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations.
Prerequisites
This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere® deployments or completion of one of the following courses:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.7]
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.7]
Outline
- 1. Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
- 2. User Interface Enhancements
Describe how to use vRealize Operations to manage the software-defined data center
Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- 3. 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 vRealize Lifecycle Manager to deploy vRealize Operations
- 4. vRealize Operations Architecture and Certificates
Describe the functions of the components in a vRealize Operations 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
Course Outline :: VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]::
Identify ways that data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations
Describe vRealize Operations certificates
- 5. vRealize Operations Concepts and Policies
Identify the tasks that can be performed in the administration and product user interfaces
Describe dashboards and their usage
Use tags to group objects
Create policies for various types of workloads
Explain how policy inheritance works
- 6. Performance Optimization
Assess the performance of your environment to determine which data centers need optimization
Define the business and operational intents for a given data center
Automate the process of optimizing and balancing the workloads in data centers
Report on the results of optimization efforts
- 7. Capacity Optimization and Costing
Define capacity planning terms
Understand capacity planning models
Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
Recognize options for rightsizing virtual machines (VMs)
Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
Run what-if scenarios to plan the migration of workloads to the public cloud
- 8. Managing Configurations and Troubleshooting Pillars
Recognize how to 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 VMware vSphere® objects in your environment
- 9. Operating System and Application Monitoring
Recognize how the Service Discovery manager and Telegraf fits into the vRealize Operations OS and app monitoring
Deploy the Application remote collector
Monitor the operating system and applications by using Telegraf
- 10. Custom Alert Definition
Create symptom definitions
Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
Course Outline :: VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]::
- 11. Custom Views and Reports
Build and use custom views in your environment
Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment
- 12. 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
- 13. Super Metrics
Recognize different types of super metrics
Create super metrics and associate them with objects
Enable super metrics in policies
- 14. User Access Control
Recognize how users are authorized to access objects
Determine privilege priorities when a user has multiple privileges
Import users and user groups from an LDAP source
- 15. 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
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.