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