This course is for users of both cloud and onpremises versions of the VMware vRealize® Operations™ product.

It provides the knowledge and skills to deploy a VMware vRealize Operations cluster that meets the monitoring requirements of your environment.
This course explains the architecture in vRealize Operations and covers advanced capabilities like customizing alerts, views, reports, and dashboards. It explains certificates, capacity concepts, and workload optimization with real world use cases.

The course covers troubleshooting using dashboards, and managing compliance and configurations. It also covers several management packs and an introduction to VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud™.
In general, this course explains how to use and configure most of the new features and enhancements in version 8.1 and 8.2.

By the end of the course, you should be able to:
• Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
• Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
• Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
• Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
• 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 issues and configurations using alerts and dashboards
• List application monitoring enhancements
• Create custom alert definitions, reports, and views
• Create custom dashboards using the dashboard creation canvas
• Configure widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
• Create super metrics
• Set up users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
• Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions
• Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster by using self-monitoring dashboards
• Discuss vRealize Operations Cloud features

vRealize Operations on-premises and cloud customers, including experienced system administrators, system integrators, and consultants responsible for designing,
implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

Introduction to vRealize Operations

• Outline the use cases for vRealize Operations
• Access vRealize Operations UIs
• Identify how the product UI supports vRealize Operations use cases
• Describe the role played by the admin UI in managing a vRealize Operations cluster

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

Deploying vRealize Operations

• Identify the functions of components in a vRealize Operations node
• Choose an appropriate deployment configuration
• Deploy a vRealize Operations node
• Install a vRealize Operations instance
• Add cloud accounts to vRealize Operations
• Configure native management packs
• Install non-native management packs

vRealize Operations Concepts

• Identify components of the product UI
• Use tags to group objects
• Use applications to group objects

Certificate Management and Policies

• Describe vRealize Operations certificates
• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

Performance Optimization

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

Capacity and Cost Optimization

• Define capacity planning terms
• Understand capacity planning models
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
• Recognize options for rightsizing virtual machines (VMs)
• Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
• Run what-if scenarios to plan the migration of workloads to the public cloud
• Assess the cost of your data center inventory

Troubleshooting and Managing Configuration

• Describe the troubleshooting workbench
• Recognize how to troubleshoot issues by monitoring alerts
• Use 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

Operating System and Application Monitoring

• Recognize how the Service Discovery manager and Telegraf fit into the vRealize Operations OS and app monitoring
• Deploy the application remote collector
• Monitor the operating system and applications by using Telegraf

Custom Alert Definition

• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
 

Custom Views and Reports

• Build and use custom views in your environment

• Create custom reports to present data about your environment

Custom Dashboards

• Create dashboards that use predefined and custom widgets
• Configure widgets to interact with other widgets and other dashboards
• Configure the scoreboard widget to use a metric configuration file
• Manage dashboards by grouping dashboards and sharing dashboards with users

Super Metrics

• Recognize 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 management packs that are available to your environment
• Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
• Generate a support bundle
• View vRealize Operations logs and audit reports
• Perform vRealize Operations cluster management tasks

vRealize Operations Cloud Overview

• Discuss vRealize Operations Cloud features
• Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud onboarding page
• Add cloud accounts
• Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
• APM integration

This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere® deployments or completion of one of the following courses:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]