Content
1 Course Introduction
• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives
2. vRealize Operations Concepts
• Identify the components of the product UI
• Use tags to group objects
• Use applications to group objects
3. Certificate Management and Policies
• Describe vRealize Operations certificates
• Create policies for various types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works
4. 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 efforts
5. Capacity and Cost Optimization
• Define capacity planning terms
• Understand capacity planning models
• Assess the overall capacity of a data center and identify optimization recommendations
• Recognize options for rightsizing virtual machines (VMs)
• Run what-if scenarios for adding workloads to a data center
• Run what-if scenarios to plan the migration of workloads to the public cloud
• Assess the cost of your datacenter inventory
6. Troubleshooting and Managing Configuration
• 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
7. Operating System and Application Monitoring
• Recognize how the Service Discovery manager and Telegraf fit into the vRealize Operations OS and app monitoring
• Deploy the application remote collector
• Monitor the operating system and applications by using Telegraf
8. Custom Alert Definition
• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations, actions, and notifications
• Create alert definitions that monitor resource demand in hosts and VMs
9.Custom Views and Reports
• Build and use custom views in your environment
• Create custom reports for presenting data about your environment
10. Custom Dashboards
• Create dashboards that use predefined and custom widgets
• Configure widgets to interact with other widgets and other dashboards
• Configure the Scoreboard widget to use a metric configuration file
• Manage dashboards by grouping dashboards and sharing dashboards with users
11. Super Metrics
• Recognize different types of super metrics
• Create super metrics and associate them with objects
• Enable super metrics in policies
12. 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
13. Extending and Managing a vRealize Operations Deployment
• Identify the management packs that are available to your environment
• Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
• Generate a support bundle
• View vRealize Operations logs and audit reports
• Perform vRealize Operations cluster management tasks
14. vRealize Operations Cloud Overview
• Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud features
• Discuss the vRealize Operations Cloud onboarding page
• Add cloud accounts
• Monitor the health of a vRealize Operations cluster
• APM Integration