VMware vRealize Operations for Operators

Course Overview

This two-day VMware vRealize course is for users who are responsible for day-to-day management of VMware vRealize® Operations™. This course explains policies, capacity concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers application monitoring, troubleshooting using workbench, alerts, predefined dashboards, and explains how to manage compliance and configurations.

Note: If you have taken the VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage course, duplicate content makes this course unsuitable for you.

Product Alignment:

• VMware vSphere® 7.0.3
• VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.6

Target Audience

•  vRealize Operations on-premises customers including operators and system administrators

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
• Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational problems
• 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® Operations Cloud Appliance™
• Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster
• Perform cluster management tasks

Course Content

1  Course Introduction

•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Course objectives

2  Introduction to vRealize Operations

•  List the vRealize Operations use cases
•  Access the vRealize Operations User Interface (UI)

3  vRealize Operations Concepts

•  Identify the product UI components
•  Create and use tags to group objects
•  Use a custom group to group objects

4  vRealize Operations Policies

•  Create policies for the various workloads
•  Explain how policy inheritance works

5  Capacity Optimization

•  Define the capacity planning terms
•  Explain the capacity planning models
•  Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify the optimization recommendations

6  Costing in vRealize Operations

•  Discuss about the cost drivers in vRealize Operations
•  Assess the cost of your data center inventory

7  Performance Optimization

•  Introduction to performance optimization
•  Define the business and operational intentions for a data center
•  Automate the process of optimizing and balancing workloads in data centers
•  Report the results of the optimization potential

8  Troubleshooting and Managing Configuration

•  Describe the troubleshooting workbench
•  Recognize how to troubleshoot problems by monitoring alerts
•  Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot the vSphere objects
•  Assess your environment’s compliance to standards
•  View the configurations of the vSphere objects in your environment

9  Operating System and Application Monitoring

•  Describe the native service discovery and application monitoring features
•  Configure the application monitoring
•  Monitor the operating systems and applications

10  Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment

•  Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
•  Generate a support bundle
•  View the vRealize Operations log files and audit reports
•  Perform the vRealize Operations cluster management tasks

Course Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you must complete at least one of the following:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] (VSICM)
• 6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience

Recommended prerequisites:

• VSICM - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VSOS - VMware vSphere: Operate, Scale and Secure