VMware vRealize Operations and vSAN Integration Workshop - On Demand

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

• vSAN and VMware vSphere® administrators
  

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