VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0]

Length 5 days
Price NZD 5990 exc GST
Version 9.0

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Why study this course

This five-day, instructor-led course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in automating and operating a VCF private cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation® Automation and VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations. You will learn about the architecture of VCF Automation, provider and organisation management, provider and organisation networking, and content library management. The course covers blueprints, catalogs, Supervisor management, and deploying workloads using the Catalog and IaaS portals. You will learn about VCF Operations overview, architecture, and navigating the user interface. You will explore customising alerts, views, reports, dashboards, and policies. This course also explains VCF logs, storage, and network operations, health and diagnostics, service discovery, and application monitoring concepts.

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What you’ll learn

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

Describe VCF Automation components and supporting architecture
Perform infrastructure management as a cloud provider
Deploy Regions and Organisations as the cloud provider
Configure networking at the cloud provider and organisation levels
Configure and manage content libraries at the provider and organisation levels
Manage access control in the organisation using users and groups
Create and manage infrastructure blueprints and catalogs
Describe the use of the embedded orchestrator to create workflows
Deploy VM workloads using catalog deployment and Kubernetes-based IaaS deployments
List the key features of VCF Operations
Outline VCF Operations use cases
Create custom views and reports
Describe the functions of dashboards
Create custom dashboards
Create custom symptoms and alert definitions
Outline the role of VCF Health and Diagnostics
Explain Troubleshooting Workbench
Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations for logs overview
Identify performance and health issues with the Storage clusters using Storage Operations
Identify performance and health issues with the VCF Network objects
Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
Configure service discovery and application monitoring

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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 architects and system administrators

Course subjects

1. VCF Automation Overview and Architecture

Describe the features, benefits, and purposes of VCF Automation
Explain the architecture of VCF Automation

2. Provider Infrastructure Management

Describe the provider management and provider consumption portals
List the supported options for provider administrator from the provider portal
Explain managing tasks and events from the provider portal
Describe the features of the provider consumption organisation
Describe how to discover infrastructure resources
Explain how to manage IP spaces and provider gateways

3. Provider Identity Management

Explain how to enable VCF SSO for the Automation appliance
Discuss configuring VMware Cloud Foundation® Identity Broker as the identity provider
List the supported IdP (ODIC, SAML, LDAP)
Discuss how to register a provider-scoped identity provider
Explain managing VCF Automation roles and rights
Discuss managing VCF Automation users and groups
Discuss provider-scoped service accounts

4. Regions

Explain the basics of a Region
Identify the utilisation of the Region
Discuss prerequisites and available options for creating a Region

5. Organisations

Describe the different Organisations offered in VCF Automation
Identify the use cases for manual setup and multitenancy
Identify use cases for Quick Setup
Create a VCF Automation VM Apps Organisation
Create a VCF Automation All Apps Organisation

6. Provider Networking

Discuss prerequisites for creating the provider network
Discuss the workflow for configuring the provider network
Describe IP Spaces
Discuss Edge nodes, Edge clusters, and the network services they offer
Configure IP Spaces and verify the configuration
Configure the Provider Gateway and verify the status
Synchronise Edge clusters and verify the status
Configure regional networking for an Organisation
Discuss steps to verify the creation of network resources in VMware NSX®, VMware vCenter®, and VCF Automation
Discuss the mapping of resources between VCF Automation, NSX, and vCenter

7. Organisation Networking with VPC

Discuss Organisation Networking
Discuss the architecture of the VPC
Discuss access modes and subnet types in VPC
Describe the scope of different subnet types in VPC
Discuss Outbound Routing and Network Address Translations in VPC
Configure VPC with a default, custom connectivity profile and verify its status
Configure Private-TGW IP Block, associate it with a VPC, and verify its status

8. Provider Content Library

Describe the Provider Content Library creation workflow
Explain publishing and subscribing to a Content Library

9. Organisation Management

Identify the key components of an All Apps Organisation
Explain namespace classes
Explain creating and managing Projects
Discuss Chargeback for Organisations
Integrate identity providers into Organisations
Manage users and groups in an Organisation
Create and manage deployment-centric policies
Create and manage Supervisor resource-centric policies

10. Organisation Content Management

Identify and manage the different content available in Content Hub
Differentiate between catalog self-service versus IaaS self-service
Publish content to Catalog for end-user consumption
Deploy and modify Catalog items
Configure and use custom forms
Explain the role of YAML in configuring and managing infrastructure as code
Publish Content to Catalog for End User Consumption
Discuss the use of the embedded orchestrator
Discuss the use cases of an external orchestrator
Describe orchestrator workflows

11. IaaS Platform Architecture and Deployment

Explain Supervisor architecture
Discuss Supervisor requirements
List Supervisor use cases
Discuss the vSphere administrator workflow
List the components of the Supervisor
Discuss the types of Supervisor deployment
Discuss the requirements of Supervisor deployment
Describe Supervisor deployment during the VI Workload Domain creation

12. Deploying Modern Apps with IaaS

Discuss self-service consumption with IaaS services in VCF 9
Discuss the features of the IaaS console
Describe how to get instance information from the console
Explain the YAML Spec for the VM service
Discuss VCF CLI commands

13. VCF Operations Overview

List the key features of VCF Operations
Outline VCF Operations use cases
Navigate the VCF Operations console
Identify the components of a VCF Operations node
Describe the different roles of the node in a VCF Operations cluster

14. VCF Metrics, Views, and Reports

Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations
Outline the role of views in VCF Operations
List the steps to create a basic custom view and configure view settings
Outline the roles of reports in VCF Operations
List the steps to create a basic report and configure report settings

15. VCF Dashboards

Describe the functions of dashboards
Create dashboards that use predefined and custom widgets
Manage dashboards by grouping and sharing with users
Explain the use cases of predefined dashboards and custom dashboards
List VCF Operations use cases

16. VCF Symptoms and Alerts

Describe the purpose of using alerts
Identify the components of an alert definition
Create symptom definitions
View and manage triggered alerts in the VCF Operations console
Configure a custom alert using the Create Alert Definition workflow

17. VCF Health and Diagnostics

Outline the role of VCF Health and Diagnostics
Describe the VCF Health and Diagnostic Findings features
Monitor the operational state of VCF instances
Explain Troubleshooting Workbench
Enable support teams with full context using Log Assist

18. VCF Logs, Storage, and Network Operations

Describe the VCF Operations for logs overview
Describe the key benefits of the VCF Operations for logs
Describe the capabilities of VCF Operations for logs
Describe the VCF Storage Operations overview
Identify performance and health issues with the Storage clusters
Describe the benchmarking and optimisation tool to detect issues for a new cluster
Describe the VCF Network Operations overview
Discuss the different widgets available in VCF Network Operations
Identify the performance and health issues with the VCF Network object

19. VCF Operations Policies

Describe the purposes of policies in VCF Operations
Configure policies and other components

20. VCF Centralised Monitoring

Describe the infrastructure services monitoring capabilities
Describe the application monitoring capabilities
Describe the different types of application metrics
Outline the requirements to enable service discovery and application monitoring
Describe the different types of service metrics
Use collected metrics to interpret the status of services

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and experience:

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