Course Overview
This five-day course is for users of both cloud and on-premises versions of the VMware vRealize® Operations™ product. It provides you with the knowledge and skills to deploy a vRealize Operations cluster that meets the monitoring requirements of your environment.
This course includes advanced capabilities like customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards and explains the architecture in vRealize Operations. This course explains certificates, capacity and cost concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers troubleshooting using workbench, alerts, and Predefined dashboards and how to manage compliance and configurations. This course also covers several management packs, and it introduces VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud™.
In general, this course explains how to use and configure most of the new features and enhancements in version 8.1 and 8.2.
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere 7.0 U1
- VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.2
- VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager™ 8.2
Who should attend
vRealize Operations on-premises and cloud customers including 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:
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
- Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
- Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- 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 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
- Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud features
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Introduction to vRealize Operations
- vRealize Operations Architecture
- Deploying vRealize Operations
- vRealize Operations Concepts
- vRealize Operations Architecture and Certificates
- Capacity Optimization
- Performance Optimization
- Troubleshooting and Managing Configuration Pillars
- Application Monitoring in vRealize Operations
- Custom Alert Definitions
- Custom Views and Reports
- Custom Dashboards
- Super Metrics
- User Access Control
- Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment
- vRealize Operations Cloud Overview