VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]

During this five-day course, you will focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vRealize® Automation™. You will learn about the configuration and use of the vRealize Automation platform, including self-service provisioning and the creation of catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, software components, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks. This course also covers interfacing vRealize Automation with other systems using VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ to leverage workflows, creating approval cycles, and managing machine lifecycles to conserve resources. In addition, you will better understand and know how to achieve the benefits of automation as a component of the software-defined data center.

This course is also available in an On Demand format.

Obsah školení

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe the vRealize Automation architecture and use cases
• Install and configure vRealize Automation
• Manage vRealize Automation entities on VMware and third-party virtual, cloud, and physical infrastructures
• Configure and manage catalogs and blueprints
• Configure and manage business groups and reservations for compute resources on VMware, Microsoft, Amazon, and other platforms
• Use the self-service portal to request and manage machines in accordance with vRealize Automation approval and governance policies
• Explain vRealize Automation extensibility and workflows
• Manage and monitor machines and resource reclamation

Certifications

• This course prepares you for the following certification:
  VMware Certified Professional 7 &amp ndash Cloud Management and Automation (VCP7-CMA)

 

Outline:

1. Course Introduction
   
   • Introductions and course logistics
   • Course objectives
2. vRealize Automation Overview and Architecture
   
   • Describe the software-defined data center
   • Explain the purpose of vRealize Automation
   • Explain the concepts of vRealize Automation administration and self-service provisioning
   • Describe where vRealize Automation fits in the VMware product line
   • Discuss use cases for vRealize Automation
   • Identify the components of a vRealize Automation simple deployment
   • Identify the components of a vRealize Automation enterprise deployment
   • Identify the component design options for vRealize Automation
   • Identify how vRealize Automation integrates with other VMware products
3. Authentication, Fabric, and Tenants
   
   • Describe identity management in vRealize Automation
   • Identify the authentication methods available in vRealize Automation
   • Identify the appropriate roles for specific tasks in vRealize Automation
   • Create tenants
   • Explain multitenant leading practices
   • Define relationships between vRealize Automation entities
   • Identify and configure vRealize Automation endpoints
   • Identify how vRealize Automation discovers compute resources
   • Identify fabric groups, business groups, and reservations
   • Create and manage reservations for compute resources
4. Converged Blueprints, Containers, and Catalog Management
   
   • Define blueprints
   • Identify the process and options for configuring blueprints
   • Create a blueprint with a single virtual machine
   • Create a blueprint with multiple virtual machines
   • Use parameters in blueprints
   • Describe containers
   • Identify the role of the service catalog
   • Define catalog items
   • Use entitlements to manage catalog items
5. Consuming Catalog Services
   
   • Request a single-machine service
   • Monitor the service provisioning status
   • Reconfigure a provisioned machine
   • Manage snapshots
   • Identify roles involved in creating approval policies
   • Identify approval policy level
   • Identify approval phases
   • Create and apply approval policies for catalog items
   • Use custom properties to modify the provisioning process
   • Use property groups to group sets of custom properties
   • Use the property dictionary to modify the provisioning process
6. Integrating NSX
   
   • Identify NSX capabilities
   • Describe the NSX components that vRealize Automation uses
   • Describe the benefits of NSX integration with vRealize Automation
   • Integrate vRealize Automation with NSX
   • Use NSX elements in vRealize Automation blueprints
7. Application Authoring
   
   • Detail the lifecycle of a vRealize Automation application deployment
   • Author an application blueprint
   • Deploy an application blueprint from the service catalog
8. Monitoring and Reclamation
   
   • Identify how to monitor resource use
   • Demonstrate how to reclaim resources
   • Demonstrate how to manage machine leases
   • Monitor system events
9. vRealize Automation Extensibility
   
   • Identify the vRealize Automation extensibility tools
   • Identify the vRealize Automation extensibility use cases
   • Use vRealize CloudClient to export a blueprint
   • Use vRealize Orchestrator
   • Use vRealize Orchestrator plug-ins for external integration
   • Describe anything-as-a-service (XaaS) components
   • Create an XaaS blueprint
   • Describe how the event broker service enhances extensibility
   • Identify the appropriate subscription types and options for a subscription
   • Describe the two event broker event types
   • Identify the three event broker phases
   • Illustrate the master workflow
   • Describe the necessary requirements for passing custom properties to workflows
   • Explain how the event broker helps with day 2 operations
   • Use scale-in and scale-out to size virtual appliances
   • Integrate VMware vSphere&amp reg virtual machine storage policies into blueprints
10. vRealize Automation Installation
    
    • Explain the vRealize Automation installation prerequisites
    • Describe the vRealize Automation installation procedure
    • Perform a vRealize Automation appliance deployment
    • Configure the vRealize Automation appliance