This two-day course is for users who are responsible for day-to-day management of VMware vRealize® Operations. This
course explains policies and capacity concepts and workload optimization with real-world use cases. This course covers
troubleshooting using workbench, alerts, and Predefined dashboards and how to manage compliance and configurations.
Note: If you have taken the VMware vRealize Operations: 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:
• Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
• Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
• 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 issues using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
• Manage configurations
• Configure application monitoring using VMware vRealize® Application Remote Collector™
• Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions
• Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster
• Perform cluster management tasks

vRealize Operations on-premises customers including operators and system administrators.

This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere®deployments or completion of one of the
following courses:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7]

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 Introduction 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 cluster
3 vRealize Operations Concepts
• Identify the components of the product UI
• Create and use tags to group objects
• Use custom group to group objects
4 vRealize Operations Policies
• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works
5 Capacity Optimization
• Define capacity concepts
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and
identify optimization recommendations
• Assess the cost of your datacenter inventory
• Configure the currency type and cost settings for
your environment
6 Performance 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 potential
7 Troubleshooting 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
environment
8 Application 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 Collector
9 Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations
Deployment
• View vRealize Operations logs and generate a
support bundle
• Perform vRealize Operations cluster management
tasks

Course Delivery Options
• Classroom
• Live Online
• Private Training
• On Demand

Product Alignment
• VMware vSphere 7.0 U1
• VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.2