This two-day course is for users who are responsible for day-to-day management of VMware vRealize® Operations™. This course explains policies, capacity concepts, and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers application monitoring, troubleshooting using workbench, alerts, predefined dashboards, and explains how to manage compliance and configurations.

Note: If you have taken the VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage course, duplicate content makes this course unsuitable for you.

Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• List the vRealize Operations use cases
• Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
• Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational problems
• Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
• Recognize effective ways to optimize performance, capacity, and cost in data centers
• Troubleshoot and manage problems using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
• Manage configurations
• Configure application monitoring using VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud Appliance™
• Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster
• Perform cluster management tasks

Intended Audience

vRealize Operations on-premises customers including operators and system administrators.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you must complete at least one of the following:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]
• 6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience

Product Alignment

• VMware vSphere® 7.0.3
• VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.6

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Introduction to vRealize Operations

• List the vRealize Operations use cases
• Access the vRealize Operations User Interface (UI)

3 vRealize Operations Concepts

• Identify the product UI components
• Create and use tags to group objects
• Use a custom group to group objects

4 vRealize Operations Policies

• Create policies for the various workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

5 Capacity Optimization

• Define the capacity planning terms
• Explain the capacity planning models
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify the optimization recommendations

6 Costing in vRealize Operations

• Discuss about the cost drivers in vRealize Operations
• Assess the cost of your data center inventory

7 Performance Optimization

• Introduction to performance optimization
• Define the business and operational intentions for a data center
• Automate the process of optimizing and balancing workloads in data centers
• Report the results of the optimization potential

8 Troubleshooting and Managing Configuration

• Describe the troubleshooting workbench
• Recognize how to troubleshoot problems by monitoring alerts
• Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot the vSphere objects
• Assess your environment’s compliance to standards
• View the configurations of the vSphere objects in your environment

9 Operating System and Application Monitoring

• Describe the native service discovery and application monitoring features
• Configure the application monitoring
• Monitor the operating systems and applications

10 Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment

• Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
• Generate a support bundle
• View the vRealize Operations log files and audit reports
• Perform the vRealize Operations cluster management tasks