Overview:

During this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vRealize® Automation™. You 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.

Duration:  5 days (40 hours)

Product Alignment: 

• VMware vSphere 6.x/7.x
• VMware vRealize Automation 7.x
• VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.x
• VMware vRealize Business for Cloud 7.x
• VMware vRealize Operations 7.x
• vRealize Lifecycle Manager 2.x
• NSX for vSphere 6.x

Objectives:

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

• Describe the vRealize Automation architecture and use cases in cloud environments
• Install and configure vRealize Automation
• Manage vRealize Automation entities on VMware and third-party virtual and cloud infrastructures
• Configure and manage catalogs, containers, and blueprints
• Configure and manage business groups and reservations for compute resources
• Use the self-service portal to request and manage machines in accordance with vRealize Automation approval and governance policies
• Use customize properties and property groups in blueprint
• Develop and use custom forms
• Manage and monitor machines and resource reclamation
• Configure and manage event broker subscriptions
• Understand vRealize Automation extensibility and workflows
• Use vRealize Automation to deploy and manage containers
• Integrate vRealize Automation with third-party products

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/7.x]
• VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V6.x/7.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