Duration: 5 Days
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This five-day course, designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users, teaches you how to use VMware vRealize® Operations™ as a forensic and predictive tool. Based on VMware ESXi™ 6.5, VMware vCenter Server® 6.5, and vRealize Operations 6.6, this course includes instruction on advanced capabilities, including customization and management.
Product Alignment
- vRealize Operations 6.6
- ESXi 6.5
- vCenter Server 6.5
COURSE OBJECTIVE
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Navigate the vRealize Operations user interface
- Use alerts and analysis badges to troubleshoot common and complex vSphere operational issues
- Monitor capacity risk and infrastructure utilization
- Perform capacity planning and what-if analyses
- Use workload placement to rebalance workloads
- Configure policies to meet the operational needs of the environment
- Customize vRealize Operations by creating alert definitions, symptom definitions, views, reports, dashboards, and super metrics
- Give users and user groups controlled access to the environment
- Monitor operating systems and applications
- Extend 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
COURSE OUTLINE
- Module 1: Course Introduction
- Module 2: Introduction to vRealize Operations
- Module 3: vRealize Operations User Interface
- Module 4: vRealize Operations Concepts
- Module 5: Troubleshooting System Health Issues
- Module 6: Capacity Planning
- Module 7: Tags, Application Groups, and Custom Object Groups
- Module 8: Policies
- Module 9: Intelligent Workload Placement
- Module 10: Custom Alert Definitions
- Module 11: Custom Views
- Module 12: Custom Dashboards
- Module 13: Super Metrics
- Module 14: User Access Control
- Module 15: Operating System and Application Monitoring
- Module 16: Management Packs
- Module 17: Architecture, Scalability, and Availability
- Module 18: Deploying vRealize Operations
PREREQUISITES
This class requires completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.5]
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.5]
Or system administration experience with vSphere deployments
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Experienced system administrators and system integrators, and consultants responsible for customizing vRealize Operations content