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
• Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
• Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
• Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational problems
• Describe vRealize Operations certificates
• 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™
• Create custom symptoms and alert definitions, reports, and views
• Create various custom dashboards using the dashboard creation canvas
• Configure widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
• Create 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 configuring solutions
• Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster by using self-monitoring dashboards

1 Course Introduction

• Introduction 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 Architecture

• Identify the functions of components in a vRealize Operations node
• Identify the types of nodes and their role in a vRealize Operations cluster
• Outline how high availability is achieved in vRealize Operations
• List the components required to enable Continuous Availability (CA)

4 Deploying vRealize Operations

• Design and size a vRealize Operations cluster
• Deploy a vRealize Operations node
• Install a vRealize Operations instance
• Describe different vRealize Operations deployment scenarios

5 vRealize Operations Concepts

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

6 vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management

• Describe vRealize Operations certificates
• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

7 Capacity Optimization

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

8 What-If Scenarios and Costing in vRealize Operations

• Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
• Discuss the types of cost drivers in vRealize Operations
• Assess the cost of your data center inventory

9 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 optimization potential

10 Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations

• Describe the troubleshooting workbench
• Recognize how to troubleshoot problems 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

11 Operating System and Application Monitoring

• Describe native service discovery and application monitoring features
• Configure application monitoring
• Monitor operating systems and applications by using VMware vRealize® Operations Cloud Appliance™

12 Custom Alerts

• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
• Build and use custom views in your environment

13 Custom Views and Reports

• Build and use custom views in your environment
• Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment

14 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

15 Super Metrics

• Recognize different types of super metrics
• Create super metrics and associate them with objects
• Enable super metrics in policies

16 User Access Control

• Recognize how users are authorized to access objects
• Determine privilege priorities when a user has multiple privileges
• Import users and user groups from an LDAP source

17 Extending and managing a vRealize Operations Deployment

• Identify available management packs in the VMware Marketplace™
• 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

• Experienced system administrators and system integrators
• Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations

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