Refreshed vRealize Hands-on-Labs

Getting Started with vRealize Automation – Lightning Lab

VMware vRealize Automation is a modern infrastructure automation platform that enables self-service multi-cloud environments. This lab will go through key features from different user personas to give you opportunities to review the agility, productivity and efficiency through self-service automation, streamlining IT processes and delivering a DevOps-ready automation platform.

What’s New in vRealize Automation 8.1

You will get a hands-on walk through of the new capabilities within the Cloud Assembly, Service Broker, Code Stream and Orchestrator services. These new features include new resource limits, custom resources, custom resource actions, pricing cards, approval polices, pipelines and OVAs as catalog items and multiple new features in the Orchestrator service including the tree view, visual version differences and new debugging tools for workflows.

vRealize Automation for End Users

• Catalog
  • Explore the catalog
  • Deployments
  • Request a catalog item
  • Approvals
• Deployments
  • Managing deployments (day 2)
  • Troubleshooting a deployment
  • Getting deployment and machine health and metrics (from vROps)

You will explore the self-service catalog and the types of things that you can request from the catalog. This includes the use of approvals as part of the request process. You will also explore what you can do with deployments and machines after they have been provisioned and how to troubleshoot failed deployments and monitor deployed machines.

Administering vRealize Automation

• Configuring the infrastructure
• Basic and multi-cloud blueprinting
• Policy-based lifecycle management and governance

You will spend your time in this this lab in the Cloud Assembly and Service Broker services. Here you will learn how to configure the infrastructure components in vRealize Automation and create basic and multi-cloud (vSphere and various public clouds) blueprints with a focus on using constraint tags. You will also look at how to configure governance policies such as leases, approvals, and which day 2 actions users can invoke. Finally, you will learn how to use custom forms to modify the appearance of deployment inputs for users.

Administering vRealize Automation – Advanced Use Cases

• Managing NSX networking
  • On-demand networks and load balancers
  • Provider load balancers
• Advanced blueprinting
  • Inputs and expressions
  • cloud-init
• IPAM
• Extensibility using vRO and ABX
• Custom day 2 actions
• Config management integration – Ansible
• Custom resources – XaaS
• ITSM/ServiceNow

This lab covers several advanced topics in administering vRealize Automation. They include: Managing VMware NSX networking constructs in blueprints; advanced blueprint topics such as inputs, expressions and using cloud-init; integration with Infoblox IP address management; extensibility using vRealize Orchestrator and Action-Based Extensibility (ABX); custom day 2 actions; integration with third-party configuration management tools; creating custom resources; and integration with ServiceNow IT Service Management.

vRealize Automation for DevOps and Developers

• Introduction to Code Stream
• vRealize Automation Infrastructure DevOps (VI Admin to DevOps Champion)
• vRealize Automation Application DevOps (Developer)

The lab covers DevOps and developer topics. This lab will look at how we can prepare both the virtual infrastructure (VI) Administrator and Developer to start their DevOps journey with VMware vRealize Automation. As part of this module we will look at how we can use different toolsets including Postman, Terraform and the vRealize Automation Code Stream service to consume vRealize Automation. Whether a user is a VI Administrator or a Developer, vRealize Automation can help turn their DevOps aspirations into a reality.

Getting Started with vRealize Orchestrator

• vRealize Orchestrator Overview
• Create a Basic Orchestrator Workflow
• Understand Parameters, Attributes and Scripting Objects
• Leverage Existing Scripts in PowerShell and Python
• Create Workflow Presentation
• Operate vRealize Orchestrator

Use vRealize Orchestrator to simplify the automation of IT tasks. Explore the vRealize Orchestrator development environment and learn important development concepts by building and testing basic workflows, then put those workflows to use inside vRealize Automation to create reusable processes.

Getting Started with vRealize Operations – Lightning Lab

In 30 minutes or less, discover how vRealize Operations can optimize performance, rightsize workloads, optimize capacity, and make troubleshooting easy!

What’s New in vRealize Operations 8.1

• Container Operations – Supporting vSphere with Kubernetes
• Support for Virtual Volumes
• Multi-Cloud Monitoring

Explore what’s new in vRealize Operations 8.1. Discover vSphere with Tanzu objects, Virtual Volumes and enhanced multi-cloud monitoring.

Getting Started with vRealize Log Insight

• Getting Started With vRealize Log Insight
• Querying and Alerting with Interactive Analytics
• Configuring Integrations and Content Packs
• Agent Deployment and Configuration
• Log Insight Cloud Overview

Get started using vRealize Log Insight querying and alerting with interactive analytics. Gain more insight with content packs, and agents. Also get a peek in to Log Insight Cloud.

vRealize Operations- Optimize the Performance of Your vSphere Environment

• Optimize Workloads Based on Business or Operational Intent
• Rightsize the Configuration of Oversized or Undersized VMs to Optimize Performance
• vSphere Optimization Recommendations
• Optimization History – Completed Optimization Actions

Discover how to optimize the performance of vSphere by optimizing workloads based on business or operational intent. Get help from vSphere optimization recommendations and view the history of optimization actions.

vRealize Operations – Optimize and Plan vSphere Capacity and Costs

• Assess and Plan Capacity Shortfalls and Workload Status
• Identify Cost Savings and Reclaim Unused Resources in Your vSphere Environment
• Plan Workload and Resource Changes, Infrastructure Additions, and Perform Scenarios for Migrating Workloads
• Optimizing the Cost of Operating Your vSphere Environment

Use vRealize Operations to assess and plan for capacity shortfalls including workload, resource, and infrastructure changes. Identify cost savings and reclaim unused vSphere resources while optimizing your operational cost.

Troubleshooting and Remediation with vRealize Operations and Log Insight

• You just received a call about a virtual machine’s performance, now what?
• Utilizing vRealize Log Insight to find issues in our environment
• our application team is asking what vRealize Operations can do to help monitor their application
• Determine the health of our vRealize Operations environment
• Using vRealize Operations for vSAN dashboards to evaluate and manage storage

Use vRealize Operations to assess and plan for capacity shortfalls including workload, resource, and infrastructure changes. Identify cost savings and reclaim unused vSphere resources while optimizing your operational cost.

Learn how to respond to performance issues, monitoring requests, and heath status with vRealize Operations and Log Insight. Discover how to evaluate and manage vSAN storage in your environment using vRealize Operations.

vRealize Operations Advanced Topics

• Creating and sharing dashboards
• Creating and modifying views and reports
• Use symptoms and recommendations to create alerts
• Create super metrics using the super metric editor
• Managing users and roles
• Managing vRealize Operations with PowerCLI
• Assess Your vSphere configuration for compliance with industry or custom standards

This lab covers several advanced topics in vRealize Operations. Each module is designed to show the user how to accomplish the various advanced topics through hands on experience.