VMware vRealize® Operations™ – What’s New V6.6 to V7

VMware vRealize® Operations™ - What's New V6.6 to V7

This course provides insight into the product enhancements made in the 7.0 version of vRealize Operations. This course explains capacity concepts and improvements made to the capacity engine and workload optimization engine. This course covers assessment tools such as vSphere Optimization Assessment and Upgrade Readiness Assessment. It also covers Management Packs such as SDDC Management Health solution, vRealize Operations Management pack for Service Discovery, and vRealize Orchestrator and Federation. In general, this course explains how to use and configure the new features and enhancements in version 7.0, enabling participants to get the most out of the product.

By the end of the course, participants should be able to meet the following objectives:

List and describe the importance of key features and enhancements in vRealize Operations
Use the product UI to navigate through the Quick Start page
Assess performance and optimize workloads based on business or operational intents
Describe capacity optimization improvements
Assess policy changes relating to capacity
Use built-in cost settings for cloud comparison and planning
Use the Upgrade Readiness Assessment tool to understand the impact of the metrics changes
Extend the capabilities of vRealize Operations by installing management packs
Describe the node and cluster management enhancements to solve complex problems and to optimize vRealize Operations

Course Outline

1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION

Course objectives
References and resources

2 - VREALIZE OPERATIONS USER INTERFACE ENHANCEMENTS

Explain the importance of the Quick Start page
Navigate through the enhancements of the product UI and admin UI

3 - CAPACITY OPTIMIZATION

Use the capacity optimization feature to assess capacity and right size workloads in your environment
Discuss enhancements made to capacity settings and the capacity analytics engine
Use what-if scenarios to plan for future projects and virtual infrastructure changes
Discuss the cost assessment feature and how to configure cost settings

4 - PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION

Define business and operational intents for your data centers
Use the workload optimization feature to automate the process of optimizing and balancing workloads in
your data centers

5 - OTHER ENHANCEMENTS AND NEW FEATURES

Generate reports using the vSphere Optimization Assessment tool and analyze the data
Analyze output from the Upgrade Readiness Assessment tool
Explain how to integrate Wavefront by VMware with vRealize Operations
Explain how to integrate vRealize Operations with vCenter Server
Describe the integration between vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation

6 - VIEWS, REPORTS, DASHBOARDS AND ALERTS ENHANCEMENTS

Use the simplified dashboard creation workflow
Explain various ways of sharing dashboards
Describe how to transfer dashboard ownership
Describe the enhancements made to views
Discuss the enhancements made to managing alerts and running actions from alerts

7 - SOLUTIONS AND MANAGEMENT PACKS

Describe some of the most popular management packs available for vRealize Operations, including SDDC
Management Health Solution, Federation Management Pack, and Compliance Packs
List deprecated management packs and their replacements
Discuss the enhancements made to the vSAN solution, including new vSAN Metrics and an improved vSAN capacity model

8 - NODE AND CLUSTER MANAGEMENT ENHANCEMENTS

Explain how the Shrink Cluster and Remove Node features work
Describe other enhancements, including deploying multiple nodes in parallel

Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.