VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.6]

Course Certification

This course helps you prepare to take the:
VMware Certified Specialist vRealize Operations 2024 Exam ;

Course Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Introduction to vRealize Operations

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

Module 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)

Module 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

Module 5: vRealize Operations Concepts

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

Module 6: vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate Management

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

Module 7: Capacity Optimization

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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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™

Module 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

Module 13: Custom Views and Reports

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

Module 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

Module 15: Super Metrics

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

Module 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

Module 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

Course Mode

Instructor-Led Remote Live Classroom Training;

Trainers

Trainers are VMware Official Instructors and certified in other IT technologies, with years of hands-on experience in the industry and in Training.

Lab Topology

For all types of delivery, the Trainee can access real Cisco equipment and systems in our laboratories or directly at the Cisco data centers remotely 24 hours a day. Each participant has access to implement the various configurations thus having a practical and immediate feedback of the theoretical concepts.
Here are some VMware vSphere Labs topologies available: