Duration: 2 Days
In this course, you will learn the skills needed to use VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™ as a forensic and predictive tool. This course is based on VMware vSphere® ESXi™ 5.0, VMware vCenter Server 5.0, and vCenter Operations Manager 5.0.
What You Will Learn
- Major and minor badges and their underlying metrics
- Find root causes of common operational issues in a vSphere environment using badges
- Perform capacity management and what-if analyses
- Use the operations tab, the planning tab, the alerts tab, the analysis tab, and the reports tab
- Navigate the vCenter Operations Manager 5.0 user interface
- Use and create a custom heat mapUse smart alerts to detect system issues
Audience
Experienced system administrators and system integrators
Prerequistes
- Hands-on experience administering vSphere 5 deployments
- Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5] or VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V5.0] is recommended
Course Outline
1. Introduction to VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
- Role of operations management in the cloud era
- vCenter Operations Management Suite and its packaging
2. Architecture and Concepts
- Data collection methodology of the vCenter Operations Manager architecture
- Collecting data using vCenter Operations Manager
- Mastering the main components of the dashboard view
- Navigating the objects tree and the badge pane
3. Dashboards and Badges
- Functions of major and minor badges
- Using the health major badge
- Using the risk major badge
- Using the efficiency major badge
- Using the operations tab to navigate to details
4. Analyzing with Heat Maps
- Using the analysis tab, work with predefined and custom heat maps
5. Smart Alerts
- Configure and use smart alerts
- Set up e-mail notifications
6. Capacity Planning and Reports
- Scheduling, using, and exporting predefined capacity management reports
- Performing what-if analyses
7. Installing and Configuring VMware vCenter Operations Manager
- Preinstallation requirements
- Installing vCenter Operations Manager
- Configuring vCenter Operations Manager to gather data from its environment
Course Labs
You will spend approximately 40% of class time completing hands-on labs.
