VMware ® vRealize Operations Manager: Install, Configure, Manage v6.0

Course details

Students will learn how to use VMware vCenter™ Operations Manager™ as a forensic and predictive tool. This course also teaches advanced capabilities, such as adapters, customization, and management topics.

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 - Introduction to vCenter Operations Manager

• Describe how vCenter Operations Manager is used to manage the software-defined data center
• Describe the features and benefits of vCenter Operations Manager

3 - vCenter Operations Manager User Interface

• Navigate around the main areas of the product 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 - vCenter Operations Manager Concepts

• Use views to gather information about the environment
• Create reports about the environment
• Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vCenter Operations Manager
• Describe the importance of alerts, symptoms, and badges

5 - Troubleshooting System Health Issues

• Discuss the general process for troubleshooting system health
• issues with vCenter Operations Manager
• Monitor alerts and troubleshoot system health issues

6 - Capacity Planning

• Assess capacity risk in the environment
• Troubleshoot risk and efficiency issues
• Identify ways to optimize resource utilization in the environment
• Use projects to perform What-If scenarios

7 - Groups and Policies

• Create logical groups of objects in the environment
• Create policies for different types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

8 - User Access Control

• Create local users and groups
• Import users and groups from an LDAP source
• Assign roles to local users and groups

9 - Custom Alert Definitions

• List the best practices for customizing vCenter Operations Manager content
• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations
• Create alert definitions

10 - Custom Views

• Describe the different types of views
• Create views

11 - Custom Dashboards

• Create custom dashboards
• Configure widgets and widget interactions
• Manage dashboards

12 - Super Metrics, Tags, and Applications

• Create super metrics and use them in policies
• Use tags and applications to group objects

Target Audience: Experienced system administrators and system integrators; consultants responsible for customizing vCenter Operations Manager content