VMware vRealize Operations: Advanced Use Cases [v8.x]

This two-day hands-on training course provides advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating VMware vRealize® Operations™ 8.X. This course explains the design and creation of advanced dashboards, capacity concepts, and the REST API with real-world use cases.

Duration

2 days

Audience

Experienced system administrators and consultants, application owners, and system architects

Prerequisites

You should also have hands-on experience administering vSphere 6.x/7.x deployments.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Use the applications to group objects

• Create the logical groups of objects in the vRealize Operations environment

• Create and design advanced dashboards

• Discuss about widget and its settings

• Define a vRealize Operations policy

• Outline the components of a vRealize Operations policy

• Create the custom alerts

• Describe the troubleshooting workbench

• Review the advanced capacity concepts

• Discuss the what-if analysis scenarios

• Describe how to integrate vRealize Operations with VMware vRealize® Suite products

• Import the VMware vRealize® Network Insight™ applications

• Describe the super metrics use cases

• Outline the vRealize Operations REST API architecture

• Discuss the vRealize Operations traversal spec

• Create and query objects using the REST API

1 Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 Custom Groups and Applications

• Outline the use cases for custom groups

• Create the custom groups

• Assign the objects to custom groups

• Identify the use cases for applications

• Create the custom applications

• Identify the vRealize Network Insight applications

3 Custom Dashboard Design

• Design the dashboards

• Discuss the types of widgets and widget’s settings

• Select the widgets based on the scenario

• Explain the advanced dashboards

• Discuss the use cases of dashboards

4 Custom Policies

• Outline the components of a vRealize Operations policy

• Review the policies applied to the objects in vRealize Operations

• Outline how the policy hierarchy is implemented

• Design a vRealize Operations Policy

• Understand how a policy supports the business objectives

5 Alerts, Symptoms and Troubleshooting workbench

• Identify the use case for custom alerts and symptoms

• Create the custom alerts and symptoms

• Access the troubleshooting workbench feature

• Use the troubleshooting workbench feature to identify problems

• Outline the metric correlation options in vRealize Operations

6 Capacity Models and What-if Scenarios

• Review the capacity planning concepts

• Describe the demand based and allocation-based model

• Discuss the use cases of capacity models

• Discuss the use cases of what-if analysis scenarios

7 vRealize Operations integration

• Integrate vRealize Operations with products in vRealize Suite

• Identify the advantages of integrating vRealize Operations with vRealize Log Insight

• Import the vRealize Network Insight applications

• Configure the integration with vRealize Automation

8 Super Metrics

• Create super metrics

• Explain the depth value

• Discuss the use cases of super metrics

9 vRealize Operations REST API

• Outline the REST API architecture

• Navigate the REST API landing page

• Discuss the Swagger response codes

• Explain the vRealize Operations traversal specification

• Create and query objects using the REST API

• Discuss some of the examples of the REST API