VMware Cloud Foundation: Troubleshooting [V9.0]

Length 5 days
Price $6589 inc GST
Version 9.0

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Why study this course

This comprehensive five-day training course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) 9.0 environments. This course blends lecture and hands-on lab exercises to deliver advanced skills to diagnose and resolve problems in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 environments. This course also focuses on investigating and resolving problems and analysing log files to help you recognise log file entries that identify root causes.

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What you’ll learn

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

Describe the VCF solution
Describe the VCF architecture and components
Describe the deployment model based on the existing infrastructure
Explain the troubleshooting methodology to resolve common validation precheck errors
Identify and use the correct logs to troubleshoot VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Installer
Describe the license assignment process for connected and disconnected deployments
Identify the log file and log locations for VCF licensing components
Explain the workload domain creation workflow
Troubleshoot network pool creation
Troubleshoot VMware ESX host commissioning
Monitor VMware vSAN health using the VMware Cloud Foundation Operations console
Monitor vSAN Health using vSphere Client
Monitor network operations
Analyse flows and network performance
Describe central password management in VCF Operations
Monitor password expiration
Describe the architecture and components of the VMSP cluster
Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VMSP cluster provisioning
Identify key kubectl commands and logs to check the health status of the VMSP cluster
Generate, download, and review the structure of the VMware Cloud Foundation Automation support log bundle

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VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technologies. Lumify Work is the largest VCF Education Delivery Partner in Australia and New Zealand, offering training in vSphere, Aria Suite, vRealize, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation courses.

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Who is the course for?

System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, and Support Personnel

Course subjects

1. Course Introduction

Introduction and course logistics
Course objectives

2. Troubleshooting VCF Deployment

Describe the VCF solution
Describe the VCF architecture and components
Describe the sequence of steps that occur during the VCF installation process
Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VCF installation
Describe the VMware vSphere Foundation solution
Describe the vSphere Foundation architecture and components

3. Troubleshooting Upgrades

Understand the deployment model based on the existing infrastructure
Explain the troubleshooting methodology to resolve common validation precheck errors
Identify and use the correct logs to troubleshoot VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Installer
Explain the key components and features of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
Understand the architecture of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
Identify and analyse the supported upgrade paths to vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
Identify the prerequisites to deploy vSphere Foundation

4. Troubleshooting License

Describe the license assignment process for connected and disconnected deployments
Identify the log file and log locations for VCF licensing components
Run commands on the ESX host to verify licensing status

5. Workload Domain Troubleshooting

Describe the workload domain architecture and components
Explain the workload domain creation workflow
Troubleshoot network pool creation
Troubleshoot ESX host commissioning
Troubleshoot the different steps in workload domain creation

6. Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Compute

Monitor compute environments using VMware Cloud Foundation
Troubleshoot ESX hosts and vCenter issues effectively
Diagnose and resolve virtual machine problems efficiently
Describe vSphere cluster features and related issues
Describe diagnostic findings to identify and remediate issues

7. Troubleshooting VCF vSAN Storage

Monitor vSAN health using the VCF Operations console
Monitor vSAN health using VCF Operations diagnostics Health in the vSphere Client
Monitor object health in the vSphere Client

8. Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Networking

Monitor network operations
Deploy the Operations Network appliance
Analyse flows and network performance

9. Troubleshooting VCF Operations Fleet Management

Describe central password management in VCF Operations
Implement password management
Monitor password expiration
Update VCF component passwords

10. Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Automation

Describe the architecture and components of the VMSP cluster
Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VMSP cluster provisioning
Identify key kubectl commands and logs to check the health status of the VMSP cluster
Generate, download, and review the structure of the VCF Automation support log bundle

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should have completed the VMware Cloud Foundation - Fundamentals for
Technical Support training from the Stage-1 Support Learning Path and be familiar with command-line interfaces.

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