VMware vRealize Operations: Advanced Use Cases (v8.x)

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall 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

Prerequisites:

This course requires completion of the following course:

• You must also have a hands-on experience in administering the vSphere 6.x/7.x deployments.  

Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

Module 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

 Module 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

Module 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

Module 8: Super Metrics

• Create super metrics
• Explain the depth value
• Discuss the use cases of super metrics

Module 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