1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2. vRealize Automation Overview and Architecture

• Software-defined data center
• The purpose of vRealize Automation
• The concepts of vRealize Automation administration and self-service provisioning
• Where vRealize Automation fits in the VMware product line
• Cases for vRealize Automation
• Components of a vRealize Automation simple deployment
• Components of a vRealize Automation enterprise deployment
• Component design options for vRealize Automation
• How vRealize Automation integrates with other VMware products

3. Authentication, Fabric, and Tenants

• Management in vRealize Automation
• Authentication methods available in vRealize Automation
• Appropriate roles for specific tasks in vRealize Automation
• Create tenants
• Multitenant leading practices
• Relationships between vRealize Automation entities
• Configure vRealize Automation endpoints
• How vRealize Automation discovers compute resources
• Fabric groups, business groups, and reservations
• Create and manage reservations for compute resources

4. Converged Blueprints and Catalog Management

• Blueprints
• The process and options for configuring a blueprint
• Create a blueprint with a single virtual machine
• Create a blueprint with multiple virtual machines
• Role of the service catalog
• Catalog items
• Use entitlements to manage catalog items

5. Consuming Catalog Services

• Request a single-machine service
• Monitor the service provisioning status
• Reconfigure a provisioned machine
• Manage snapshots
• Roles involved in creating approval policies
• Approval policy level
• Approval phases
• Create and apply approval policies for catalog items
• 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

6. Integrating VMware NSX

• VMware NSX capabilities
• The VMware NSX components that vRealize Automation uses
• The benefits of VMware NSX integration with vRealize Automation
• Integrate vRealize Automation and VMware NSX
• Use VMware NSX elements in vRealize Automation blueprints

7. Application Authoring

• The lifecycle of a vRealize Automation Application deployment
• Author an application blueprint
• Deploy an application blueprint from the service catalog

8. Monitoring and Reclamation

• Monitor resource use
• Reclaim resources
• Manage machine leases
• Monitor system events

9. vRealize Automation Extensibility

• The vRealize Automation extensibility tools
• The vRealize Automation extensibility use cases
• Use vRealize CloudClient to export a blueprint
• Use vRealize Orchestrator
• Use vRealize Orchestrator plug-ins for external integration
• Anything-as-a-service (XaaS) components
• Create an XaaS blueprint
• How the event broker service enhances extensibility
• The appropriate subscription types and options for a subscription
• The two event broker event types
• The three event broker phases
• Master workflow
• Necessary requirements for passing custom properties to workflows
• How the event broker helps with second-day operations

10. vRealize Automation Installation

• vRealize Automation installation prerequisites
• vRealize Automation installation procedure
• Perform a vRealize Automation appliance deployment
• Configure the vRealize Automation appliance