VMware vRealize Operations for Operators [V6.x] Training

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Technical pre-requisites

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]

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

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 Tags, Application Groups, and Custom Object Groups

• Use tags and applications to group objects
• Create custom object groups in the environment

8 Policies

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