Course Overview
This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge and skills to deploy a VMware vRealize® Operations™ cluster that meets the monitoring requirements of your environment. This course includes advanced capabilities such as customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards and explains the architecture in vRealize Operations. This course explains application monitoring, certificates, capacity and cost concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using the workbench, alerts, and redefined dashboards and describes how to manage compliance and configurations. This course also covers several management packs.
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere 7.0.3
- VMware vRealize® Operations™ 8.6
Who should attend
- Experienced system administrators and system integrators
- Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you must complete at least one the following:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- 6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- List the vRealize Operations use cases
- Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
- Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
- Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
- Describe vRealize Operations certificates
- 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 problems using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
- Manage configurations
- Configure application monitoring using VMware vRealize® Application Remote Collector™
- Create custom symptoms and alert definitions, reports, and views
- Create various 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
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Introduction to vRealize Operations
- vRealize Operations Architecture
- Deploying vRealize Operations
- vRealize Operations Concepts
- vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management
- Capacity Optimization
- What-If Scenarios and Costing in vRealize Operations
- Performance Optimization
- Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations
- Application Monitoring in vRealize Operations
- Custom Alert, Views, and Reports
- Custom Dashboards
- Super Metrics
- User Access Control
- Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment