VMware vRealize Operations: Advanced Use Cases v8.x

This advanced course is delivered directly by VMware

This two-day hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating vRealize Operations 8.X. This course explains Design and create advanced Dashboards, capacity concepts, and REST API with real-world use cases.

Course Contents

Course Introduction
Custom Groups and Applications
Custom Dashboard Design
Custom Policies
Alerts, Symptoms and Troubleshooting workbench
Capacity Models and What-if Scenarios
vRealize Operations integration
Super Metrics
vRealize Operations REST API

You will receive the original course documentation from VMware as an e-book.

Target Group

Experienced system administrators and consultants, application owners, system architects

Knowledge Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have completed the following course:
VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage

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

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 Custom Groups and Applications

• Outline use cases for custom groups

• Create custom groups

• Assign objects to custom groups

• Identify use cases for applications

• Create custom applications

• Import vRealize Network Insight applications

3 Custom Dashboard Design

• Designing dashboards

• Discuss types of widgets and widget’s settings

• Select widgets based on scenario

• Explain advanced dashboards

• Use cases of dashboards

4 Custom Policies

• Outline the components of a vRealize Operations policy

• Review the policies applied to objects in vRealize Operations

• Outline how policy hierarchy is implemented

• Design a vRealize Operations Policy

• understand how a policy supports business objectives

5 Alerts, Symptoms and Troubleshooting workbench

• Identify use case for custom alerts and symptoms

• Create custom alerts and symptoms

• Access the troubleshooting workbench feature

• Use the troubleshooting workbench feature to identify problems

• Outline metric correlation options in vRealize Operations

6 Capacity Models and What-if Scenarios

• Review Capacity planning concepts

• Describe demand based and allocation-based model

• Use cases of capacity models

• Use cases of what-if analysis scenarios

7 vRealize Operations integration

• Integrate vRealize Operations with vRealize Suite applications

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

• Integrate vRealize Operation with Service Management solutions like ServiceNow.

• Optimize vRealize Automation workload placement

• Run built-in workflows

8 Super Metrics

• Why super metrics

• Creating super metrics

• Explain depth value

• Use cases of super metrics

9 vRealize Operations REST API

• What is REST API

• Outline REST API architecture

• Navigate REST API landing page

• Swagger response codes

• Explain vRealize Operations traversal spec

• Create and query objects using REST API

• Some examples of REST API

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