Overview:

This five-day course, designed for experienced VMware vSphere® users, teaches you how to use VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ as a forensic and predictive tool. Based on VMware ESXi™ 6, VMware vCenter Server® 6, and vRealize Operations Manager 6.2, this course includes instruction on advanced capabilities, including customization and management. 

Duration:  05 days

Objectives:

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

-       Navigate the vRealize Operations Manager user interface

-       Use 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

-       Use workload placement to rebalance workloads

-       Configure policies to meet the operational needs of the environment

-       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

Intended Audience:

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

Prerequisites:

-       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

Course outlines

1. Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

 6. 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

7. Tags, Applications, and Object Groups

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

8. Policies

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

9. 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

10. Custom Alert Definitions

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