By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Navigate the vRealize Operations user interface
Use alerts and dashboards to troubleshoot common and complex vSphere operational issues
Assess performance and optimize workloads based on business or operational intents
Assess overall capacity and identify cost savings opportunities
Perform capacity planning and what-if analyses
Configure groups and policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
Customize vRealize Operations by creating alert definitions, symptom definitions, views, reports, dashboards, and super metrics
Give users and user groups controlled access to your environment
Monitor operating systems and applications
Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and solutions
Scale a vRealize Operations deployment and make it highly available
Install and configure vRealize Operations � Monitor and maintain a vRealize Operations deployment
1 Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
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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
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3 Deploying vRealize Operations
Design and size a vRealize Operations cluster
Install a vRealize Operations cluster
Configure a vRealize Operations cluster for high availability
Describe different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios
Describe how VMware vRealize� Suite Lifecycle Manager� can be used to deploy vRealize Operations
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4 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
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5 vRealize Operations Architecture
Describe the function of the components in a node
Describe the roles in a vRealize Operations cluster
Explain how a node�s components interact to achieve scalability and availability
Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations
List the functions of the analytics component
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6 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
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7 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
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8 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
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9 Operating System and Application Monitoring
Deploy the Endpoint Operations Management agent
Monitor operating systems by viewing the metrics collected by the Endpoint Operations Management agent
Describe how Wavefront integrates with vRealize Operations
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10 Policies
Create policies for various types of workloads
Explain how policy inheritance works
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11 Custom Alert Definitions
Create symptom definitions
Create recommendations, actions, and notifications