VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.0]
This hands-on training course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vRealize™ Automation. This course covers the configuration and use of the vRealize Automation platform, including self-service provisioning and the creation of multivendor cloud services. This class also helps students understand and achieve the benefits of automation as a component of the software-defined data center.
Prerequisites
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.x] or equivalent knowledge
- Describe the vRealize Automation architecture and use case in today’s multivendor cloud environment
- Install and configure vRealize Automation 6.2
- Deploy Distributed Execution Managers and agents for vRealize Automation connectivity
- Configure endpoints to support compute fabric connectivity
- Manage vRealize Automation 6.2 entities on VMware hardware, third-party hardware, and cloud infrastructures
- Configure vRealize Automation infrastructure services
- Configure and manage tenants and blueprints
- Configure and manage a service catalog
- Configure and manage role-based access control
- Request and manage machines through the user portal
- Analyze and configure vRealize Automation workflows
- Integrate VMware vRealize™ Orchestrator™ with vRealize Automation
- Automate application provisioning with VMware vRealize™ Application Services
- Manage and monitor machines and resource reclamation
- Manage cost reporting with VMware vRealize™ Business™
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Lesson 1: Introductions and course logistics
- Lesson 2: Course outline
- Lesson 3: Course objectives
- Lesson 1: Identify the components of a vRealize Automation deployment that is used to manage a multivendor hybrid cloud
- Lesson 2: Identify the component design options for vRealize Automations
- Lesson 3: Explain the concepts of vRealize Automation administration and self-service provisioning
- Lesson 4: Identify how vRealize Automations integrates with other VMware products
- Lesson 5: Explain the concept of multitenancy
- Lesson 6: Identify the abstraction layers of the vRealize Automation cloud
- Lesson 7: Identify the administrator roles used by vRealize Automation
- Lesson 1: Explain the vRealize Automation installation prerequisites
- Lesson 2: Identify the vRealize Automation appliances and component installers
- Lesson 3: Define the vRealize Automation installation procedure
- Lesson 1: Define relationships between vRealize Automation entities
- Lesson 2: Identify and configure vRealize Automation endpoints
- Lesson 3: Identify how vRealize Automation discovers compute resources
- Lesson 4: Define vRealize Automation roles
- Lesson 5: Identify fabric groups, business groups, and reservations
- Lesson 6: Create tenants
- Lesson 7: Create and manage reservations for compute resources
- Lesson 1: Create and manage single-machine and multi-machine blueprints
- Lesson 2: Describe Horizon Clent for mobile devices with biometric authentication
- Lesson 3: Describe HTML Access, thin clients, and zero clents
- Lesson 4: Compare options for client drive redirection
- Lesson 1: Provision new machines and services
- Lesson 2: Manage self-provisioned machines
- Lesson 3: Create approval policies
- Lesson 4: Identify approval policy levels and approval phases
- Lesson 5: Use custom properties
- Lesson 6: Use build profiles
- Lesson 7: Use the property dictionary
- Lesson 1: Identify extensibility and customization options
- Lesson 2: Use vRealize Orchestrator
- Lesson 3: Configure plug-ins for external integration
- Lesson 4: Use the Advanced Service Designer
- Lesson 5: Create custom forms and services
- Lesson 1: Identify and verify inactive and abandoned resources
- Lesson 2: Manage machine leases
- Lesson 3: Manage machine reclamation
- Lesson 1: Configure vRealize Business
- Lesson 2: Report financial data for a cloud infrastructure
- Lesson 3: Troubleshoot common vRealize Business problems
- Lesson 1: Define the role of vRealize Application Services
- Lesson 2: Identify vRealize Application Services infrastructure components and requirements
- Lesson 3: Deploy and manage vRealize Application Services
- Lesson 4: Configure application provisioning
- Lesson 5: Create, manage, and update applications
- Lesson 6: Manage catalog services
- Experienced Systems Administrators
- Cloud Administrators
- System Integrators
- Operational Developers