VMware vRealize operations Manager: Install, Configure, Manage Training Course

• Navigate and get familiar with the vROps UI
• Learn to use authentication endpoints and increase security
• Configure and install solutions to bring data into vRealize Operations
• Apply policies to single objects or to the entire environment
• Administer and use vRealize Operations within your environment

• Experienced system administrators and system integrators
• consultants responsible for customizing vRealize Operations Manager content

This class requires completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6] Or system administration experience with vSphere deployments

• Navigate the vRealize Operations Manager user interface through the training program
• Service 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 through VMware vRealize operations Certification
• Use workload placement to rebalance workloads
• Configure policies to meet the operational needs of the environment study of vRealize operations
• Customize vRealize Operations Manager 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 the capabilities of vRealize Operations Manager by adding management packs and solutions
• Scale a vRealize Operations Manager deployment and make it highly available
• Install and configure vRealize Operations Manager
• Monitor and maintain a vRealize Operations Manager deployment

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to vRealize Operations Manager

• Describe how vRealize Operations Manager is used to manage the software-defined data center
• Describe the features and benefits of vRealize Operations Manager

vRealize Operations Manager 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

vRealize Operations Manager Concepts

• Use views to gather information about the environment
• Create reports about the environment
• Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations Manager
• Discuss the importance of alerts, symptoms, and badges

Troubleshooting System Health Issues

• Discuss the process for troubleshooting system health issues with vRealize Operations Manager
• Monitor alerts and troubleshoot system health issues
• Use heat maps to monitor system health

Capacity Planning

• Discuss capacity planning models
• Assess capacity risk in the environment
• Troubleshoot risk and efficiency issues
• Identify ways to optimize resource utilization in the environment
• Use projects to perform what-if scenarios

Tags, Application Groups, and Custom Object Groups

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

Policies

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

Intelligent Workload Placement

• Use workload placement to rebalance workloads across the environment
• Identify scenarios that use workload placement
• Use policies to drive workload balance plan recommendations

Custom Alert Definitions

• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations and use actions
• Create notifications
• Create alert definitions

Custom Views

• Describe the various types of views
• Create views

Custom Dashboards

• Create custom dashboards
• Configure widgets and widget interactions
• Configure dashboard navigation
• Manage dashboards

Super Metrics

• Create super metrics
• Enable super metrics in policies

User Access Control

• Create local users and user groups
• Assign roles to local users and groups
• Import users and user groups from an LDAP source

Operating System and Application Monitoring

• Deploy operating system and application monitoring
• Monitor operating systems and applications

Management Packs

• Describe management packs that are available to the environment
• Install and configure a management pack

Architecture, Scalability, and Availability

• Describe the components of a vRealize Operations Manager node
• Describe the roles in a vRealize Operations Manager cluster
• Explain how a node’s components interact to achieve scalability and availability

Deploying vRealize Operations Manager

• Determine how to size a vRealize Operations Manager cluster
• Install and configure a vRealize Operations Manager cluster
• Monitor and manage a vRealize Operations Manager cluster

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