VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage (V6.6).

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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 issues
• Use alerts to identify root causes for performance, capacity, and utilization issues
• Use symptoms to indicate a potential issue
• Use badges to visually analyze your environment to identify good or bad conditions for the entire environment

5. Troubleshooting System Health Issues

• Discuss the process for troubleshooting system health issues
• Troubleshoot system health alerts
• Troubleshoot a user's performance issue
• Use health weather maps and heat maps to monitor system health

6. 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

7. Tags, Application Groups, and Custom Object Groups

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

8. Policies

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

9. Intelligent Workload Placement

• Identify scenarios that use intelligent workload placement
• Use intelligent workload placement to rebalance workloads across the environment
• Use policies to drive workload balance plan recommendations

10. Custom Alert Definitions

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

11. Custom Views

• Build and use custom views in your environment

12. Custom Dashboards

• Create custom dashboards
• Configure widgets
• Configure widget interactions
• Configure the Scoreboard widget to use a metric configuration file
• Configure dashboard navigation
• Specify the dashboard used on the Summary tab of an object
• Organize dashboards in folders
• Share dashboards

13. Super Metrics

• Create super metrics
• Enable super metrics in policies

14. User Access Control

• Explain how users are authorized to access objects
• Explain how privileges are prioritized when a user has multiple privileges
• Create local users and user groups
• Import users and user groups from an LDAP source

15. Operating System and Application Monitoring

• Deploy operating system and application monitoring
• Monitor operating systems and applications

16. Management Packs

• Explore the management packs that are available for your environment
• Install and configure a management pack

17. Architecture, Scalability, and Availability

• Describe the function of the components in a node
• Describe the roles in a vRealize Operations cluster
• Explain how a node's components interact to achieve scalability and availability

18. Deploying vRealize Operations

• Install a vRealize Operations cluster
• Configure a vRealize Operations cluster
• Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
• Generate a support bundle
• View logs
• Perform cluster management tasks