VMware vRealize Operations and vSAN Integration Workshop

Course Introduction
- Course objectives
- References and resources

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

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

Monitoring Individual Components
- Locate key vSAN components in vRealize Operations
- Monitor important vSAN components
- Monitor vSAN network metrics

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

Policies
- Explain the hierarchy of polices in vRealize Operations
- Configure vSAN analysis settings

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