VMware vRealize Operations for Administrators [V7]

Experienced system administrators

After completing this course you should be able to:

• Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
• Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
• Recognize how to use vRealize Operations components to build scalability and availability
• Recognize effective ways to optimize performance and capacity in data centers
• Troubleshoot and manage issues and configurations using alerts and dashboards
• Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment

Attendees should have completed one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage - VSICM
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale - VSOS
• Or equivalent system administration experience with vSphere deployments

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to vRealize Operations

• Describe how vRealize Operations is used to manage the software-defined data center
• Describe the features and benefits of vRealize Operations

vRealize Operations Concepts

• Navigate the main pages of the product user interface
• Use the product UI and the admin UI
• Use tags, applications, and groups to group related objects in the environment

vRealize Operations Architecture

• Describe the function of the components in a node
• Describe the roles in a vRealize Operations cluster

Performance Optimization

• Assess the performance of your environment to determine which data centers need optimization
• Define the business and operational intents for your data centers
• Automate the process of optimizing and balancing workloads in your data centers
• Report on the results of your optimization efforts

Capacity Optimization

• Define capacity planning terminology and capacity planning models
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and provide optimization recommendations
• Use what-if scenarios to plan for future capacity requirements
• Assess the cost of running the data centers in your environment

Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations

• Use predefined step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot different vSphere objects
• Assess your environment's compliance to standards
• View the configurations of vSphere objects in your environment
• Describe how logs can be accessed by integrating vRealize Operations with VMware vRealize Log  Insight
• Use inventory trees on the Environment page to monitor vSphere objects
• Monitor the performance of the vRealize Operations instance

Policies

• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works