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.

Who Can Benefit

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

Skills Gained

• 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

Prerequisites

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

Course Content

Course Modules

• Course Introduction
• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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