VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage V8.2

Course Introduction
– Introductions and course logistics
– Course objectivesIntroduction to vRealize Operations
– Outline the use cases for vRealize Operations
– Access the vRealize Operations UIs
– Identify how the product UI supports vRealize Operations use cases
– Describe the role played by the admin UI in managing a vRealize Operations clustervRealize 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)Deploying vRealize Operations
– Identify the functions of components in a vRealize Operations node
– Choose an appropriate deployment configuration
– Deploy a vRealize Operations node
– Install a vRealize Operations instance
– Add cloud accounts to vRealize OperationsvRealize Operations Concepts
– Identify the components of the product UI
– Create and use tags to group objects
– Use custom group to group objectsvRealize Operations Architecture and Certificates
– Describe vRealize Operations certificates
– Create policies for various types of workloads
– Explain how policy inheritance worksCapacity Optimization
– Define capacity planning terms
– Understand capacity planning models
– Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
– Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
– Run what-if scenarios to plan the migration of workloads to the public cloud
– Discuss types of cost drivers in vRealize Operations
– Assess the cost of your datacenter inventoryPerformance Optimization
– Introduction to performance optimization
– Define the business and operational intentions for a given data center
– Automate the process of optimizing and balancing the workloads in data centers
– Report on the results of optimization potentialTroubleshooting and Managing Configuration Pillars
– Describe the troubleshooting workbench
– Recognize how to troubleshoot issues 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 environmentApplication Monitoring in vRealize Operations
– Describe native service discovery and application monitoring features
– Configure the application monitoring
– Monitor the operating system and applications by using vRealize Application Remote CollectorCustom Alert Definitions
– Create symptom definitions
– Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
– Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMsCustom Views and Reports
– Build and use custom views in your environment
– Create custom reports for presenting data about your environmentCustom 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 usersSuper Metrics
– Recognize different types of super metrics
– Create super metrics and associate them with objects
– Enable super metrics in policiesUser 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 sourceExtending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment
– Identify the management packs that are available 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 tasksvRealize Operations Cloud Overview
– Outline cloud services console
– Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud onboarding page and cloud proxy
– Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud features
– Explain the near real-time metric collection feature