2 Days Course
Cloud Management 
Course Details
Overview
VMware vRealize Operations Manager for Operators is for data center operators who are responsible for the day-to-day operation of a VMware vSphere® environment. This course teaches the operator how to use VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ as a forensic and predictive tool. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.x, VMware vCenter Server™ 5.x, and vRealize Operations Manager 6.0.
Note: If you have taken the VMware vRealize Operations Manager: Install, Configure, Manage course, duplicate content makes this course unsuitable for you.
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Navigate the vRealize Operations Manager user interface
• Use views and reports to gather information about the environment
• Use alerts and analysis badges to troubleshoot common vSphere operational issues
• Monitor capacity risk and infrastructure utilization
• Create logical groups of objects in the environment
• Configure policies to meet the operational needs of the environment
Outline
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Introduction to vRealize Operations Manager
- Describe how vRealize Operations Manager is used to manage the software-defined data center
- Describe the features and benefits of vRealize Operations Manager
- vRealize Operations Manager 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
- vRealize Operations Manager Concepts
- Use views to gather information about the environment
- Create reports about the environment
- Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vRealize Operations Manager
- Discuss the importance of alerts, symptoms, and badges
- Troubleshooting System Health Issues
- Discuss the process for troubleshooting system health issues with vRealize Operations Manager
- Monitor alerts and troubleshoot system health issues
- Use heat maps to monitor system health
- Capacity Planning
- Discuss capacity planning models
- Assess capacity risk in the environment
- Troubleshoot risk and efficiency issues
- Identify ways to optimize resource utilization in the environment
- Tags, Applications, and Object Groups
- Create custom object groups in the environment
- Policies
- Create policies for various types of workloads
- Explain how policy inheritance works
Target Audience
Operators responsible for the day-to-day operation of a vSphere environment
Prerequisites
Completion of the following courses:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5]
• VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.5]
Or system administration experience with vSphere deployments