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According to the vRealize Operations User Guide1, the two statements that accurately characterize reports in vRealize Operations are:

A report layout can contain table of contents, cover page, and footer. The report layout defines the appearance and structure of the report, and can include these optional elements to enhance the readability and presentation of the report1.

Scheduling of reports can be done hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly. The report schedule defines the frequency and time of the report generation, and can be set to run at regular intervals, such as hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly, or at a specific date and time1.

The other statements are not accurate because:

Views and Dashboards are not the only data types available for a report. A report can also include other data types, such as alerts, events, metrics, properties, and super metrics1.

Only PDF type reports cannot be used to schedule a report generation. A report can be generated in different formats, such as PDF, CSV, or XML, and any of these formats can be used to schedule a report generation1.

Reports scheduled for generation can be shared out via email or FTP. A report can be configured to send the generated output to one or more email recipients, or to upload the output to an FTP server1.

References: 1: vRealize Operations User Guide, pages 81-87.

 Cost drivers are the expense types used by vRealize Operations to calculate the cost of your private cloud. The total private cloud cost is the sum of cost drivers. Changes that are made to cost drivers are reflected only after the next run of the cost engine1. Cost drivers cover server hardware, storage, licenses, application, maintenance, labor, network, facilities, and additional costs configured within vRealize Operations2. When calculating the monthly cluster costs, vRealize Operations considers the following two types of cost drivers:

VMware software per socket: This is the cost of VMware licenses based on the number of sockets in the cluster. You can assign different license costs to different clusters depending on the edition and features you use3.

Storage maintenance as a percentage of hardware costs: This is the cost of maintaining the storage hardware used by the cluster. You can specify the percentage of the storage hardware cost that goes into maintenance. For example, if the storage hardware cost is $10,000 and the maintenance percentage is 10%, the storage maintenance cost is $1,0004. References: 1: Overview of Cost Drivers 2: VM Pricing with vRealize Automation 8.1 and vRealize Operations 8.1 3: License Cost Driver 4: Storage Cost Driver

 According to the VMware vRealize Operations Reference Materials, the cloud provider that needs to be added as a custom cloud provider when running a What-If Analysis is Oracle Cloud. The What-If Analysis feature allows the administrator to compare the cost and performance of running workloads in different public cloud providers, such as AWS, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud. These public cloud providers are supported out-of-the-box in vRealize Operations, and the administrator can select them from the predefined list when creating a migration scenario. However, if the administrator wants to compare the cost and performance of running workloads in Oracle Cloud, they need to add it as a custom cloud provider, and upload a rate card that contains the pricing information for Oracle Cloud services. The other options are incorrect because they are supported out-of-the-box in vRealize Operations, and they do not need to be added as a custom cloud provider when running a What-If Analysis. References: What-If-Analysis - Migration Planning: Public Cloud; VMware vRealize Operations What-If Analysis; VMware vRealize Operations for Public Cloud

To achieve the lowest cost in Workload Optimization, the administrator should select the Consolidate option, which will place VMs into as few clusters as possible, but allows for less responsive capacity. This is good for populations with steady demand and may reduce licensing and hardware costs, such as power and cooling1. The Consolidate option is one of the three operational intents that can be selected for Workload Optimization, along with Balance and Moderate2. The Balance option will spread VMs evenly over the available resources, but may move VMs more often. The Moderate option will minimize VM contention, but will not attempt to move VMs to achieve better balance or consolidation1. References: 1: Optimize Performance with VMware vRealize Operations 2: Self-Driving Operations by VMware vRealize Operations Datasheet

 A super metric is a custom metric that you can define using existing metrics and mathematical functions. They allow you to create new metrics that are specific to your environment and can help you gain deeper insights into the performance and health of your infrastructure1. Before enabling a super metric in a policy, you need to associate it to an object type. An object type is a category of objects that share common characteristics, such as hosts, virtual machines, clusters, datastores, etc. By associating a super metric to an object type, you can calculate the super metric for all the objects of that type and display it in the dashboards and reports2. For example, if you create a super metric that calculates the average CPU usage of all the virtual machines in a cluster, you need to associate it to the cluster object type. Then, you can enable the super metric in a policy and apply it to the cluster object or group. This way, you can monitor the average CPU usage of the cluster as a super metric3. References: 1: Configuring Super Metrics 2: Metrics and Properties Details 3: Supercharge Your vRealize Operations with Super Metrics

 These two methods will meet the goal of creating a trust relationship between the cluster and each of these new nodes. Generating passphrases in the administration User Interface of an existing node, and entering them when prompted in each new node is a method that allows the administrator to securely authenticate the new nodes to the cluster. The passphrase is a one-time password that is valid for 24 hours and can be used to add multiple nodes to the cluster. Clicking the Add New Nodes button on the System Status page in the administration User Interface of an existing node is another method that allows the administrator to initiate the process of adding new nodes to the cluster. The administrator can enter the FQDN or IP address of the new node, and then validate the certificate and accept the trust relationship. Clicking the Add New Nodes button on the Cluster Management page in the product User Interface of an existing node is not a valid option, as this button does not exist on that page. Using any local or directory user with the Administrator role in vRealize Operations when prompted in each new node is not afeasible option, as the new node does not have any local or directory users configured yet. Using the vRealize Operations root user name and password when prompted in each new node is not a reliable option, as the root user name and password may not be the same for all the nodes, and may not be known by the administrator. References: Expand an Existing Installation to Add a Data Node, section “Expand an Existing Installation to Add a Data Node”. Add a Node to a vRealize Operations Analytics Cluster, section “Add a Node to a vRealize Operations Analytics Cluster”. vRealize Operations Manager User Guide, section “Create and Configure Dashboards”.

According to the VMware vRealize Operations User Guide1, tags are labels that can be assigned to objects in vRealize Operations to group them based on common attributes or criteria. Tags can be used to filter, search, and organize objects in vRealize Operations, as well as to define policies, alerts, dashboards, and reports. Tags can also be used to configure tiers, which are logical groups of objects that represent different levels of service or performance in the environment. For example, the administrator can create tiers such as Gold, Silver, and Bronze, and assign tags to the objects that belong to each tier. Then, the administrator can use the tags to apply different policies, alerts, or dashboards to each tier.

One of the grouping options in vRealize Operations that allows the configuration of tiers is Tags. This option allows the administrator to create custom groups based on the tags assigned to the objects. The administrator can select one or more tags to define the membership criteria for the custom group. The administrator can also specify the object type and the adapter type for the custom group. The custom group can then be used to configure tiers in vRealize Operations.

Therefore, the correct answer is A. Tags, as this is the grouping option in vRealize Operations that allows the configuration of tiers. References:

1: VMware vRealize Operations User Guide, https://docs.vmware.com/en/vRealize-Operations/8.5/vrealize-operations-manager-85-user-guide.pdf, page 59-60, 63-64

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The troubleshooting workbench is a feature of vRealize Operations that provides a unified and interactive view of the alerts, metrics, events, and logs related to an object or a problem in your environment. You can use the troubleshooting workbench to quickly identify the root cause of an issue, analyze the impact and symptoms, and take corrective actions12.

The troubleshooting workbench can show the data from other vRealize Suite products when the integration is configured. The integration enables vRealize Operations to collect and display the data from the other products as additional sources of information and context for troubleshooting purposes. The integration also enables vRealize Operations to launch the other products from the troubleshooting workbench to perform further analysis or actions34.

The other vRealize Suite product that can show its data in the troubleshooting workbench when the integration is configured is vRealize Network Insight. vRealize Network Insight is a product that provides visibility and analytics for network and security across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It helps you to plan, operate, troubleshoot, and optimize your network and security infrastructure, as well as ensure compliance and security posture56.

When vRealize Operations is integrated with vRealize Network Insight, you can see the network and security data from vRealize Network Insight in the troubleshooting workbench. For example, you can see the network flows, firewall rules, network paths, and network health of the objects or problems that you are troubleshooting. You can also launch vRealize Network Insight from the troubleshooting workbench to perform deeper network and security analysis or actions .

References:

1: Troubleshooting Workbench - VMware Docs 2: Use the Troubleshooting Workbench 3: Integrate vRealize Operations with Other Products - VMware Docs 4: Launch Other Products from vRealize Operations Manager 5: vRealize Network Insight - VMware 6: vRealize Network Insight User Guide : [vRealize Network Insight Integration - VMware Docs] : [Use vRealize Network Insight Data in vRealize Operations Manager] : [vRealize Operations Manager User Guide] : [vRealize Operations Manager Installation and Configuration Guide] : [vRealize Operations Manager Concepts Guide] : [vRealize Operations Manager Administration Guide] : [vRealize Operations Manager Customization and Extensibility Guide] : [vRealize Operations Manager Troubleshooting Guide] : [vRealize Operations Manager API Programming Guide] : [vRealize Operations Manager Certification Exam Guide]

A super metric is a mathematical formula that contains one or more metrics or properties for one or more objects. It can be used to create custom metrics that are specific to your environment and can help you gain deeper insights into the performance and health ofyour infrastructure1. Super metrics can be applied to any object type that contains the objects or metrics involved in the formula2.

Option A is a valid super metric, as it calculates the average CPU usage of VMs within a Datacenter, which is an object type that contains VMs as child objects. The formula for this super metric could be something like avg(${this, metric=cpu|usage_average, depth=1}), which means the average of the CPU usage average metric for all the child objects of the current object3.

Option D is also a valid super metric, as it counts the number of Non-Windows VMs in a vSphere cluster, which is an object type that contains VMs as child objects. The formula for this super metric could be something like count(${this, metric=guestfilesystem|osType, depth=1, where=not contains windows}), which means the count of the guest OS type metric for all the child objects of the current object, where the value does not contain the word windows3.

Option B is not a valid super metric, as it involves the difference of CPU utilization for each VM between two defined time stamps, which is not a metric or property that can be used in a super metric formula. Super metrics can only use metrics or properties that are collected by vRealize Operations, not arbitrary time stamps2.

Option C is not a valid super metric, as it involves string operators that are valid to be used with mathematical calculations in a function, which is not a metric or property that can be used in a super metric formula. Super metrics can only use numerical values, not string values, in mathematical calculations2.

Option E is not a valid super metric, as it involves the average SCSI count with disk size of VMs within an ESXi host, which is not a metric or property that can be used in a super metric formula. Super metrics can only use metrics or properties that are available for the object type that the super metric is assigned to, and the SCSI count and disk size are not available for the ESXi host object type2.

References:

My Top 15 vRealize Operations Super Metrics - VMware Blogs

Configuring Super Metrics - VMware Docs

vRealize Operations 8.10 - Create Super Metric - Virtualization Blog

In VMware vRealize Operations, policies determine how objects are analyzed and managed. They include settings for metrics collection, alert definitions, symptoms, recommendations, and more. If an administrator disables some virtual machine metrics in the Production policy, only objects assigned to that specific policy will be affected. The changes won’t impact other policies or globally affect all objects. This is because policies are hierarchical and inherit settings from their parent policies, unless overridden by the child policies. In the exhibit, the Production policy and the TestDev policy are both child policies of theCompany default policy, which is a child policy of the vSphere solution’s default policy, which is a child policy of the Base settings. Therefore, any changes made to the Production policy will only apply to the objects assigned to that policy, and not to the objects assigned to the TestDev policy or any other policy. References:

vRealize Operations Policies, page 1-2

Manage Policies, page 3-4

Disable Metrics Collection, page 5