Duration

30 days.

Prerequisites

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

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

Skills Gained

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

Who Can Benefit?

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

    Outline for VMware vRealize Operations for Operators [V8.6]-On Demand Training

    Outline

    Course Introduction

    • Introductions and course logistics
    • Course objectives

    Introduction to vRealize Operations

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

    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

    • Create policies for the various 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

    Costing in vRealize Operations

    • Discuss about the 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 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

    Operating System and Application Monitoring

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

    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

    Product Alignment

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