VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.6]

Intended Audience

Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vRealize Automation

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x]
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.x]

Experience with working at the command line is helpful.

This course requires that a student be able to perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

• Create VMware vCenter Server® objects, such as data centers and folders
• Create a virtual machine using a wizard or a template
• Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
• Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion®
• Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®
• Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster with resource pools.
• Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster.
• If you cannot perform all of these tasks, VMware recommends that you complete one of the prerequisite courses before enrolling in VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage.

Outline

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2. vRealize Automation Overview and Architecture

• Explain the role of vRealize Automation
• Describe where vRealize Automation fits in the VMware product stack
• 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
• Explain the concepts of vRealize Automation administration and self-service provisioning
• Identify how vRealize Automation integrates with other VMware products

3. vRealize Automation Installation

• Identify the prerequisites for installation
• Describe the differences between a minimal deployment and an enterprise deployment
• Describe the steps to install vRealize Automation using minimal deployment
• Describe the steps to install vRealize Automation using VMware vRealize® Suite Lifecycle Manager™

4. vRealize Automation Tenancy

• Describe multitenancy
• Create tenants

5. Authentication and Authorization

• Identify the authentication methods available in vRealize Automation
• Describe identity management in vRealize Automation
• Identify the appropriate role for different tasks in vRealize Automation

6. vRealize Automation Infrastructure Configuration

• Configure vRealize Automation endpoints
• Create Fabric Groups
• Create Business Groups
• Create Network Profiles
• Create and manage Reservations for compute resources
• Create Reservation Policies

7. Blueprints and Catalog Management

• Define blueprints
• Identify the process and options for configuring a blueprint
• Create a blueprint with a single virtual machine
• Create a multitiered virtual application
• Identify the role of the service catalog
• Define catalog items
• Use entitlements to manage catalog items
• Define Cloudclient
• Export blueprints using Cloudclient

8. Software Provisioning

• Define software components
• Design software components and application blueprints
• Deploy an application blueprint from the service catalog

9. Custom Resources and the Property Dictionary

• 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
• Use component profiles in the creation and deployment of blueprints

10. Custom Forms

• Describe the benefits of using custom forms
• Use the custom Form Editor
• Define constraints
• Define read-only fields
• Use vRealize Orchestrator actions in custom forms

11. Integrating VMware NSX

• Integrate vRealize Automation and VMware NSX
• Use VMware NSX elements in vRealize Automation blueprints

12. Extensibility

• Introduction to Extensibility
• Describe the Event Broker
• Describe the master workflow
• Create an XaaS blueprint

13. Approval Policies

• Identify roles involved in creating approval policies
• Identify approval policy levels
• Identify approval phases
• Create and apply approval policies for catalog items

14. Monitoring and Reclamation

• Identify how to monitor resource use
• Demonstrate how to reclaim resources
• Demonstrate how to manage machine leases
• Monitor system events
• Create a vRealize Automation system health check test
• Create a vRealize Orchestrator system health check test

15. vRealize Automation Integration with Containers

• Describe Containers
• Describe how Docker and Kubernetes can manage containers
• Describe Harbor
• Describe vSphere Integrated Containers

16. vRealize Automation Integration with vRealize Suite

• Describe the use cases and benefits of using vRealize Lifecycle Manager to manage a vRealize Automation deployment
• Describe VMware vRealize® Business™ for Cloud concepts
• Use vRealize Business for Cloud to manage cost
• Describe vRealize Operations Dashboard integration with vRealize Automation
• Describe dashboard features related to deployments
• Describe dashboard features related to machines

17 vRealize Automation Integration with External Systems

• Describe how vRealize Automation can be integrated with external systems including Amazon endpoints, vCloud on AWS, Azure endpoints, Google Cloud Platform endpoints, Ansible Tower integration, ServiceNow integration, and Puppet