VCENTER OPERATIONS MANAGER CONCEPTS:

• Use views to gather information about the environment
• Create reports about the environment
• Explain how data is collected and analyzed by vCenter Operations Manager
• Describe the importance of alerts, symptoms, and badges

TROUBLESHOOTING SYSTEM HEALTH ISSUES:

• Discuss the general process for troubleshooting system health
• issues with vCenter Operations Manager
• Monitor alerts and troubleshoot system health issues

CAPACITY PLANNING:

• Assess capacity risk in the environment
• Troubleshoot risk and efficiency issues
• Identify ways to optimize resource utilization in the environment
• Use projects to perform What-If scenarios

GROUPS AND POLICIES:

• Create logical groups of objects in the environment
• Create policies for different types of workloads
• Explain how policy inheritance works

USER ACCESS CONTROL:

• Create local users and groups
• Import users and groups from an LDAP source
• Assign roles to local users and groups

Networking of containers:

• Port mapping details
• Container linking and naming
• Linking and environment variables

CUSTOM ALERT DEFINITIONS:

• List the best practices for customizing vCenter Operations Manager content
• Create symptom definitions
• Create recommendations
• Create alert definitions

CUSTOM VIEWS:

• Describe the different types of views
• Create views

CUSTOM DASHBOARDS:

• Create custom dashboards
• Configure widgets and widget interactions
• Manage dashboards

SUPER METRICS, TAGS, AND APPLICATIONS :

• Create super metrics and use them in policies