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

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