VMware vRealize Operations for Operators

Operators responsible for the day-to-day operation of a vSphere environment.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

•   Navigate the VMware vRealize Operations Manager user interface

•   Use views and reports to gather information about the environment

•   Use alerts and analysis badges to troubleshoot common and complex vSphere operational issues

•   Monitor capacity risk and infrastructure utilization, and perform capacity planning and what-if analyses

•   Use tags and groups to logically organize objects, for example, by application, by organization, or by    location

•   Configure policies to meet the operational needs of your environment

• This class requires completion of one of the following courses, or system administration experience with vSphere deployments:

•   VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.5]

•   VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.5]

• 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 User Interface
  • Navigate the main areas of the user interface
  • Explain the importance of inventory trees
  • View widgets and dashboards on the Home page
  • View inventory trees and objects on the Environment page

• vRealize Operations Concepts
  • Use views to gather information about the environment
  • Create reports about the environment
  • Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations
  • List the functions of the analytics component
  • Discuss key indicators in the user interface that provide warnings about potential problems
  • Use alerts to identify root causes for performance, capacity, and utilization problems
  • Use symptoms to indicate a potential problem
  • Use badges to visually analyze your environment to identify good or bad conditions for the entire environment

• Troubleshooting System Health Issues
  • Discuss the process for troubleshooting system health problems
  • Troubleshoot system health alerts
  • Troubleshoot a user's performance problem
  • Use health weather maps and heat maps to monitor system health

• Capacity Planning
  • Define capacity planning terminology
  • Discuss capacity planning models
  • Monitor for capacity risk in the environment
  • Troubleshoot risk issues
  • Troubleshoot efficiency issues
  • Identify ways to optimize resource use
  • Use projects to perform what-if scenarios

• Tags, Application Groups, and Custom Object Groups
  • Use tags and applications to group objects
  • Create custom object groups in the environment

• Policies

• List guidelines for customizing vRealize Operations  
• Import and export content
• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works