This course has bee replaced by VMware Aria Operations: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.17]

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- List the vRealize Operations use cases
- Identify features and benefits of vRealize Operations
- Determine the vRealize Operations cluster that meets your monitoring requirements
- Deploy and configure a vRealize Operations cluster
- Use interface features to assess and troubleshoot operational issues
- Describe vRealize Operations certificates
- 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 problems using workbench, alerts, and predefined dashboards
- Manage configurations
- Configure application monitoring using VMware vRealize® Application Remote Collector™
- Create custom symptoms and alert definitions, reports, and views
- Create various custom dashboards using the dashboard creation canvas
- Configure widgets and widget interactions for dashboards
- Create super metrics
- Set up users and user groups for controlled access to your environment
- Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by adding management packs and configuring solutions
- Monitor the health of the vRealize Operations cluster by using self-monitoring dashboards

- Experienced system administrators and system integrators
- Consultants responsible for designing, implementing, and customizing vRealize Operations

Before taking this course, you must complete at least one the following:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- 6 months hands-on vRealize Operations experience

1. Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics
- Course objectives

2. Introduction to vRealize Operations
- List the vRealize Operations use cases
- Access the vRealize Operations User Interface (UI)

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)

4. Deploying vRealize Operations
- Design and size a vRealize Operations cluster
- Deploy a vRealize Operations node
- Install a vRealize Operations instance
- Describe the different vRealize Operations
deployment scenarios

5. vRealize Operations Concepts
- Identify the product UI components
- Create and use tags to group objects
- Use a custom group to group objects

6. vRealize Operations Policies and Certificate
Management
- Describe the vRealize Operations certificates
- Create policies for the various types of workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works

7. Capacity Optimization
- Define the capacity planning terms
- Explain the capacity planning models
- Assess the overall capacity of a data center and
identify the optimization recommendations

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

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 the optimization potential

10. Troubleshooting and Managing Configurations
- Describe the troubleshooting workbench
- Recognize how to troubleshoot problems by
monitoring alerts
- Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot the
different vSphere objects
- Assess your environment’s compliance to standards
- View the configurations of vSphere objects in your
environment

11. Application Monitoring in vRealize Operations
- Describe the native service discovery and
application monitoring features
- Configure the application monitoring
- Monitor the operating systems and applications by
using vRealize Application Remote Collector

12.  Custom Alert, Views, and Reports
- Create the symptom definitions
- Create the recommendations, actions, and
notifications
- Create the alert definitions that monitor resource
demand in hosts and VMs
- Build and use the custom views in your environment
- Create the custom reports for presenting data about
your environment

13. Custom Dashboards
- Create the dashboards that use the predefined and
custom widgets
- Configure the widgets to interact with the other
widgets and other dashboards
- Configure the Scoreboard widget to use a metric
configuration file
- Manage the dashboards by grouping dashboards
and sharing dashboards with users

14. Super Metrics
- Recognize the different types of super metrics
- Create super metrics and associate them with
objects
- Enable super metrics in policies

15. 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

16.  Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations
Deployment
- Identify the available management packs in VMware
Marketplace™
- Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
- Generate a support bundle
- View the vRealize Operations log files and audit
reports
- Perform the vRealize Operations cluster
management tasks

Course Delivery Options
- Classroom
- Live Online
- Private Training
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere 7.0.3
- VMware vRealize® Operations™ 8.6