VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] - On Demand
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- Format:
Subscription
- Length: 30 Days
Overview:
This course, equivalent to 5 days of training, is designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users to teach you how to use VMware vRealize® Operations™ as a forensic and predictive tool. Based on VMware ESXi™ 6.7, VMware vCenter Server® 6.7, and vRealize Operations 7.0, this course includes instruction on advanced capabilities, including customization and management.
This course is also available in an Instructor-Led Training (ILT) format. For more information, select this link: VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]. Product Alignment • vRealize Operations 7.0 • ESXi 6.7 • vCenter Server 6.7 |
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| Objectives: | By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: • Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations • Deploy vRealize Operations • Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues • Recognize how to use vRealize Operations components to build scalability and availability • Recognize effective ways to optimize performance and capacity in data centers • Troubleshoot and manage issues and configurations using alerts and dashboards • Use Endpoint Operations Management to monitor operating systems and applications • Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment • Create custom alert definitions, reports, and views • Configure widgets for dashboards • Configure 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 solutions Specialization This course prepares you for the following specialization: • VMware vRealize Operations 2017 Specialist |
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| Intended Audience: | Experienced system administrators and system integrators, and consultants responsible for customizing vRealize Operations content | |
| Prerequisites: | This class requires completion of one of the following courses: • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] • VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.x] Or system administration experience with vSphere deployments |
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| Outline: | 1 Course Introduction • Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives 2 Introduction to vRealize Operations • Describe how to use vRealize Operations to manage the software-defined data center • Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations 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 to use VMware vRealize® Suite Lifecycle Manager™ to deploy vRealize Operations 4 vRealize Operations Concepts • Identify the tasks that can be performed in the administration and product user interfaces • Recognize how to use dashboards, views, and reports to gather information about the environment • Use tags, applications, and custom groups to group related objects in the environment 5 vRealize Operations Architecture • Describe the functions of the components in a node • Identify the types of nodes and their roles in a vRealize Operations cluster • Recognize how a node’s components interact to achieve scalability and availability • Identify ways that data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations 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 7 Capacity Optimization • Define capacity planning terminology and capacity planning models • Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations • Run what-if scenarios to plan for future resource capacity and workload requirements • Assess the cost of running the data centers in your environment 8 Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations • 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 • Describe how logs can be accessed by integrating vRealize Operations with VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ • View inventory trees on the Environment page to monitor vSphere objects • Monitor the performance of a vRealize Operations instance 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 10 vRealize Operations Policies • Create policies for various types of workloads • Explain how policy inheritance works 11 Custom Alert Definitions • Create symptom definitions • Create recommendations, actions, and notifications Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs 12 Views and Reports • Build and use custom views in your environment • Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment 13 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 14 Super Metrics • Create super metrics and associate them with vSphere objects • Enable super metrics in policies 15 User Access Control • Recognize how users are authorized to access objects • Determine privilege priorities when a user has multiple privileges • Create local users and user groups • Import users and user groups from an LDAP source 16 Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment • Identify the management packs that are available to your environment • Install and configure a management pack • 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 |
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