Overview
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- Compelling: Interactive modules with labs that build as you progress
- Official e-courseware
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Overview:
This course, equivalent to two days of training, explains how to use and configure VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 7.0 to integrate with VMware vSAN™ 6. This course explains concepts and practical applications of vRealize Operations Manager in reference to vSAN.
This course is also available in an Instructor-Led Training (ILT) format. For more information, select this link: VMware vRealize Operations and vSAN Integration Workshop.
Product Alignment
- vRealize Operations 7.0
- VMware ESXi™
- vCenter Server 6.7
- VMware vSAN 6
Intended Audience:
vSAN and VMware vSphere® administrators
Prerequisites
At a minimum, students attending this course should have completed the VMware vSAN: Deploy and Manage [V6.x] course or have equivalent knowledge.
Some experience with basic operations of vRealize Operations would also be helpful.
The course presumes that a student can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
- Use VMware vSphere® Client™
- Perform routine VMware vCenter Server® tasks
- Configure a vSAN datastore
- Perform routine vSAN maintenance tasks
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- List and describe the uses of vRealize Operations Manager when applied to vSAN
- Use the product UI to navigate through built-in vSAN specific dashboards
- Review the built-in vSAN specific dashboards for key vSAN information
- Create your own vSAN specific dashboards
- Assess vRealize Operations Manager policies related to vSAN
- Perform vSAN troubleshooting using vRealize Operations
Outline
1 Course Introduction
- Course objectives
- References and resources
2 Overview of vSAN and vRealize Operations
- Describe basic vSAN architecture and components
- Explain the use of vSAN storage policies
- Describe the different vRealize Operations interfaces
- Enable data collection for vSAN
3 Creating and Using Dashboards, Views, Reports, and Tags
- Create custom dashboards to monitor vSAN data
- Create a view that displays information about vSAN metrics
- Create custom reports to display information for the vSAN datastore
- Use tags to create logical groups of objects in the vRealize Operations environment
4 Monitoring Individual Components
- Locate key vSAN components in vRealize Operations
- Monitor important vSAN components
- Monitor vSAN network metrics
5 Optimizing the Cluster
- Automate workload optimization and balancing
- Generate performance optimization reports
- Identify capacity planning concepts
- Use vRealize Operations to reclaim unused resources and right-size virtual machines
- Create what-if scenarios using existing or custom virtual machines
6 Policies
- Explain the hierarchy of polices in vRealize Operations
- Configure vSAN analysis settings
7 Troubleshooting vSAN with Alerts and vRealize Operations
- Recognize how to troubleshoot issues by monitoring alerts
- Use step-by-step workflows to troubleshoot different objects
- Explain the importance of inventory trees for troubleshooting
- Recognize the importance of inventory trees
- Use inventory trees and objects from the Environment page as a part of troubleshooting
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