VMware vRealize Automation: Advanced Features and Troubleshooting [V8.x]

Course Description

VMware vRealize Automation: Advanced Features and Troubleshooting [V8.x] builds practical capability across Advanced cloud templates, expressions, dependencies, dynamic inputs, Event Broker, subscriptions, extensibility actions. The course connects architecture and configuration choices to service behavior, operational ownership, security boundaries, and evidence that proves the platform is ready.

The learning journey extends into Day-two actions, resource actions, leases, approvals, Platform services, Kubernetes components, logs. Learners create and review advanced template test suite and dependency graph, event-driven workflow trace and rollback evidence, day-two governance matrix and action-execution record, vRA diagnostic playbook and root-cause report to compare intended design with actual behavior and isolate defects without losing traceability.

By completion, participants can contribute to an advanced vRealize Automation 8.x service with extensible templates, event-driven workflows, governed day-two operations, and a disciplined troubleshooting model across platform integrations. The final improvement plan records monitoring needs, unresolved risks, recovery actions, owners, and controlled next steps.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how Advanced cloud templates, expressions, and dependencies establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure dynamic inputs, resource mappings, custom resources, allocation helpers, constraints, and reusable design patterns, then confirm readiness through advanced template test suite and dependency graph instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering Event Broker, subscriptions, and extensibility actions, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read event-driven workflow trace and rollback evidence to isolate a blocking subscription timing out after the external system commits a change, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate Day-two actions, resource actions, and leases with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge approvals, policies, multi-cloud deployments, onboarding, drift, updates, decommissioning, and governance using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with day-two governance matrix and action-execution record.
• Investigate a certificate renewal breaking communication with an otherwise healthy endpoint by reviewing Platform services, Kubernetes components, and logs before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare vRA diagnostic playbook and root-cause report that demonstrates health endpoints, certificates, identity, integrations, performance, backup, recovery, root-cause analysis, and handover and supports handover, monitoring, governance, and the next improvement decision.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Delivery combines focused demonstrations, guided configuration, scenario comparison, evidence review, fault isolation, peer discussion, validation checklists, and a final improvement plan. Learners record assumptions, decisions, expected results, observed behavior, and ownership of unresolved actions.