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VMware vCenter Operations: Analyze and Predict

Written by Dan St. Hilaire | March 21, 2013

 

 

KnowledgeWave is excited to offer this very limited engagement; a 2-day vSphere Operations class. This course is targeted for admins of VMware that may need a refresher class. This course is designed for experienced users of VMware® vSphere® and teaches skills in the use of VMware® vCenter™ Operations Manager™ as a forensic and predictive tool. The course is based on VMware ESXi™ 5.x, VMware® vCenter Server™ 5.x, and vCenter Operations Manager 5.x.

Scheduled for May 29-30, 2013. Attend from our location in South Burlington or attend remotely Live from your Desk. Remote classes are 100% live.

Intended Audience: Experienced System Administrators and System Integrators

Training Investment: $1,995 Discount are available for companies sending more than 1 person. To Register or for more Information: Contact Eric Sokolowski at 800-831-8449 EXT 102.

Course Objectives:

• Understand major and minor badges and their underlying metrics.
• Use these badges to find the root causes of common operational issues in a vSphere environment.
• 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.x user interface.
• Use heat maps and create a custom heat map.
• Use smart alerts to detect system issues.
• Articulate the use case for the new policy structure in vCenter Operations Manager and how it can be used to define configuration settings for objects in a vSphere environment.
• Work with groups to classify virtual objects in logical and business-related structures and how to apply them to policies.
• Define new use cases based on the optimized integration with VMware® vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™ products like VMware® vCenter Configuration Manager™, VMware® vFabric™ Hyperic®, VMware® vCenter™ Infrastructure Navigator™, and other adapters.