VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.6] (VROICM86) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Course Introduction
  • Introduction and course logistics
  • Course objectives
Introduction to vRealize Operations
  • List the vRealize Operations use cases
  • Access the vRealize Operations User Interface (UI)
vRealize Operations Architecture
  • Identify the functions of components in a vRealize Operations node
  • Identify the types of nodes and their role in a vRealize Operations cluster
  • Outline how high availability is achieved in vRealize Operations
  • List the components required to enable Continuous Availability (CA)
Deploying vRealize Operations
  • Design and size a vRealize Operations cluster
  • Deploy a vRealize Operations node
  • Install a vRealize Operations instance
  • Describe the different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios
vRealize Operations Concepts
  • Identify the product UI components
  • Create and use tags to group objects
  • Use a custom group to group objects
vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management
  • Describe the vRealize Operations certificates
  • Create policies for the various types of workloads
  • Explain how policy inheritance works
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
What-If Scenarios and Costing in vRealize Operations
  • Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
  • Discuss the types of cost drivers in vRealize Operations
  • Assess the cost of your data center inventory
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
Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations
  • Describe the troubleshooting workbench
  • Recognize how to troubleshoot problems by monitoring alerts
  • Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot the different vSphere objects
  • Assess your environment’s compliance to standards
  • View the configurations of vSphere objects in your environment
Application Monitoring in vRealize Operations
  • Describe the native service discovery and application monitoring features
  • Configure the application monitoring
  • Monitor the operating systems and applications by using vRealize Application Remote Collector
Custom Alert, Views, and Reports
  • Create the symptom definitions
  • Create the recommendations, actions, and notifications
  • Create the alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
  • Build and use the custom views in your environment
  • Create the custom reports for presenting data about your environment
Custom Dashboards
  • Create the dashboards that use the predefined and custom widgets
  • Configure the widgets to interact with the other widgets and other dashboards
  • Configure the Scoreboard widget to use a metric configuration file
  • Manage the dashboards by grouping dashboards and sharing dashboards with users
Super Metrics
  • Recognize the different types of super metrics
  • Create super metrics and associate them with objects
  • Enable super metrics in policies
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
Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment
  • Identify the available management packs in VMware Marketplace™
  • 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