Description
About This Course
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
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Navigate the vCenter Operations Manager user interface
- Use alert details and badges to find the root causes of common operational issues in a vSphere environment
- Assess capacity risk and infrastructure utilization
- Perform capacity planning and what-if analyses
- Configure policies to meet the operational needs of the environment
- Add users and groups and give them appropriate access to the vCenter Operations Manager environment
- Customize vCenter Operations Manager by creating alert definitions, symptom definitions, views, reports, dashboards, and super metrics
- Extend the capabilities of vCenter Operations Manager by adding solutions
- Scale a vCenter Operations Manager deployment and make it highly available
- Install and configure vCenter Operations Manager
- Monitor and maintain a vCenter Operations Manager Deployment
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Course Introduction
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Introductions and course logistics
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Course objectives
Lesson 2: Introduction to vCenter Operations Manager
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Describe how vCenter Operations Manager is used to manage the software defined data center
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Describe the features and benefits of vCenter Operations Manager
Lesson 3: vCenter Operations Manager User Interface
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Navigate around the main areas of the product user interface
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Explain the importance of inventory trees
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View widgets and dashboards on the Home page
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View inventory trees and objects on the Environment page
Lesson 4: vCenter Operations Manager Concepts
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Use views to gather information about the environment
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Create reports about the environment
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Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vCenter Operations Manager
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Describe the importance of alerts, symptoms, and badges
Lesson 5: Troubleshooting System Health Issues
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Discuss the general process for troubleshooting system health issues with vCenter Operations Manager
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Monitor alerts and troubleshoot system health issues
Lesson 6: Capacity Planning
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Assess capacity risk in the environment
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Troubleshoot risk and efficiency issues
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Identify ways to optimize resource utilization in the environment
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Use projects to perform What-If scenarios
Lesson 7: Groups and Policies
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Create logical groups of objects in the environment
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Create policies for different types of workloads
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Explain how policy inheritance works
Lesson 8: User Access Control
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Create local users and groups
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Import users and groups from an LDAP source
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Assign roles to local users and group
Lesson 9: Custom Alert Definitions
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List the best practices for customizing vCenter Operations Manager content
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Create symptom definitions
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Create recommendations
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Create alert definitions
Lesson 10: Custom Views
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Describe the different types of views
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Create views
Lesson 11: Custom Dashboards
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Create custom dashboards
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Configure widgets and widget interactions
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Manage dashboards
Lesson 12: Super Metrics, Tags, and Applications
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Create super metrics and use them in policies
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Use tags and applications to group objects
Lesson 13: Solutions and Adapters
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Identify solutions and adapters that are available to the environment
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Install and configure an adapter
Lesson 14: Architecture, Scalability, and Availability
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Describe the components in a vCenter Operations Manager node
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Determine how to size a vCenter Operations Manager cluster
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Explain what happens when a node fails in a vCenter Operations Manager cluster
Lesson 15: Deploying vCenter Operations Manager
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Install and configure a vCenter Operations Manager node
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Monitor and manage a vCenter Operations Manager instance
Who Should Attend
Experienced system administrators and system integrators; consultants responsible for customizing vCenter Operations Manager content
