This two-day course is designed for data center operators who are responsible for the day-to-day management of a VMware vSphere® environment using VMware vRealize® Operations™. This course will teach you how to use vRealize Operations as a forensic and predictive tool. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 6.5, VMware vCenter Server® 6.5, and vRealize Operations 6.6.

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

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Navigate the VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ user interface
Use views and reports to gather information about the environment
Use alerts and analysis badges to troubleshoot common and complex vSphere operational issues
Monitor capacity risk and infrastructure utilization, and perform capacity planning and what-if analyses
Use tags and groups to logically organize objects, for example, by application, by organization, or by
location
Configure policies to meet the operational needs of your environment

Operators responsible for the day-to-day operation of a vSphere environment.

This class requires completion of one of the following courses, or system administration experience with vSphere deployments:

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.5]
VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V6.5]

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

Introduction to vRealize Operations

Describe how vRealize Operations is used to manage the software-defined data center

Describe the features and benefits of vRealize Operations

vRealize Operations 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

vRealize Operations Concepts

Use views to gather information about the environment

Create reports about the environment

Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations

List the functions of the analytics component

Discuss key indicators in the user interface that provide warnings about potential problems

Use alerts to identify root causes for performance, capacity, and utilization problems

Use symptoms to indicate a potential problem

Use badges to visually analyze your environment to identify good or bad conditions for the entire environment

Troubleshooting System Health Issues

Discuss the process for troubleshooting system health problems

Troubleshoot system health alerts

Troubleshoot a user’s performance problem

Use health weather maps and heat maps to monitor system health

Capacity Planning

Define capacity planning terminology

Discuss capacity planning models

Monitor for capacity risk in the environment

Troubleshoot risk issues

Troubleshoot efficiency issues

Identify ways to optimize resource use

Use projects to perform what-if scenarios

Tags, Application Groups, and Custom Object Groups

Use tags and applications to group objects

Create custom object groups in the environment

Policies

List guidelines for customizing vRealize Operations

Import and export content

Create policies for various types of workloads

Explain how policy inheritance works