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This three-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in troubleshooting VMware vRealize® Automation. vRealize Automation can be used to automate the delivery of virtual machines, applications, and personalized IT services across different data centers and hybrid cloud environments. This course will enable you to troubleshoot common problems with hands on lab problems.

Audience

Experienced system administrators and cloud administrators who are already familiar with vRealize Automation

Product Alignment

VMware vRealize® Automation 8.6
VMware vRealize® Operations 8.6
VMware vRealize® Log Insight 8.6
VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager 8.6

Before taking this course, you should have completed the VMware vRealize® Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.3] course.

You should also have the following understanding or knowledge:

Good understanding of managing and working with various Linux and Windows operating systems
Knowledge and working experience of VMware vSphere® environments
Basic scripting skills in JavaScript, YAML, and cloudConfig

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

Describe installation best practices and troubleshoot installation failures
Verify the correct DNS configuration
Examine main logs and collect log bundles
Examine the Kubernetes pods in the vRealize Automation architecture
Troubleshoot common errors that prevent successful deployments
Troubleshoot YAML code errors in VMware cloud templates
Troubleshoot cloudConfig code errors in VMware cloud templates
Troubleshoot VMware Identity Manager configuration errors
Troubleshoot common errors in vRealize Orchestrator workflows
Use the vRealize Orchestrator debugger
Use log outputs from vRealize Orchestrator
Troubleshoot problems in custom resources
Troubleshoot problems in resource actions
Troubleshoot action-based extensibility (ABX) actions
Integrate vRealize Automation with vRealize Log Insight
Integrate vRealize Automation with vRealize Operations Manager
Configure and replace certificates

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 Troubleshooting vRealize Automation Installation Issues

vRealize Automation Installation Overview
vRealize Automation Installation best practices
Troubleshooting Installation Failures

3 vRealize Automation General Troubleshooting

Verifying the DNS configuration settings in vRealize Automation and vSphere
Examining the main logs in the user interface
Collecting a log bundle
Using vracli commands
Examining the pods in the vRealize Automation Kubernetes architecture
Dumping a log from a vRealize Automation Kubernetes pod
Killing and restarting a vRealize Automation Kubernetes pod

4 vRealize Automation Cloud Templates and Deployment Troubleshooting

Overview of provisioning and placement workflows
Examining a deployment history
Troubleshooting deployment issues
Using deployment Dev mode
Troubleshooting YAML code
Troubleshooting problems with cloudConfig

5 vRealize Automation Identity Manager Architecture and Cluster Architecture

Authentication workflow in vRealize Automation
Connector high availability for authentication
Architecture of a VMware Identity Manager cluster
Troubleshooting a VMware Identity Problem
Key vRealize Automation components
Architecture of the vRealize Automation cluster
vRealize Automation node failover scenario
vRealize Automation cluster shutdown and startup process
Virtual machine provisioning workflow

6 Troubleshooting vRealize Orchestrator Workflows

Overview of vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation communications
Using the vRealize Orchestrator debugger
Using vRealize Orchestrator log output
Troubleshooting vRealize Orchestrator binding errors
Troubleshooting vRealize Orchestrator logic errors
Troubleshooting vRealize Orchestrator payload errors
Troubleshooting custom resource errors
Troubleshooting resource action errors

7 Troubleshooting Action Based Extensibility (ABX) Actions

Overview of ABX actions
Troubleshooting ABX actions

8 vRealize Automation Integration with vRealize Tools

Integrating vRealize Automation and vRealize Log Insight
Integrating vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations Manager
Using vRealize Operations Manager to monitor vRealize Automation

9 vRealize Automation Certificate Management

Managing vRealize Automation certificates
Creating certificate requests with vRealize Lifecycle Manager
Using Microsoft Certificate Services to create vRealize Automation certificates
Replacing vRealize Automation certificates

Upcoming Trainings

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Classroom / Virtual Classroom

04 July 2024