VCenter Training | VCenter Course

Introduction

This course focuses on the advanced capabilities of VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™ 5.6, such as adapters, customization and management topics.

Individuals will learn how to use adapters, define custom super metrics, customize dashboards, and use the Customer user interface.

This course is based on vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 and integration with VMware® vSphere® 5.1, VMware vCloud Director® 5.1, and VMware® vFabric™ Hyperic®.

Pre-Requisites

The following knowledge is recommended, prior to attending this course:

• Installing and configuring basic settings in vCenter Operations Manager
• Logging in and using the vSphere user interface of vCenter Operations Manager
• Identifying the difference between badges and metrics

Who Should Attend

• System Administrators and Consultants responsible for customizing vCenter Operations Manager to expand from the vSphere user interface to a customized environment.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, individuals should be able to:

• Identify the capabilities of adapters, their use cases, availability, and installation.
• Describe super metrics, attributes, attribute packages, and object tagging.
• Manage user access to the Custom UI of VMware vCenter Operations Manager.
• Work with smart alerts and custom alert notification.
• Use custom dashboards to build specific views for operations and application monitoring.

Course Content

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

vCenter Operations Manager Advanced Architecture

• Introduce vCenter Operations Manager architecture
• Explain sizing guidelines
• Describe vCenter Operations Manager availability and
• backup

Adapters for Data Collection

• Understand adapters
• Identify available adapters
• Install and configure adapters
• Troubleshoot adapters

Metrics and Super Metrics

• Understand metrics
• Configure and use super metrics

Applications, Attribute Packaging, KPIs, and Tags

• Introduce the application design concept in vCenter
• Operations Manager
• Configure and use attribute packages and KPIs
• Create tags and groups

Dashboards

• Introduce custom dashboards
• Manage widgets
• Manage interactions
• Manage templates

Smart Alerts and Custom Alerts

• Work with and troubleshoot alerts
• Configure alert notifications

User and Role Management

• Manage user and role permissions for the vSphere UI
• Manage user and group permissions for the Custom UI

Troubleshooting

• Identify the basic troubleshooting workflows
• Understand Self Info and self-monitoring of vCenter Operations
• Manager
• Examine the Support page in the Custom UI