VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0]
This five-day course provides the knowledge and hands-on experience required to automate and operate a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud environment. You will learn how to use VMware Cloud Foundation Automation and VMware Cloud Foundation Operations to manage infrastructure, networking, content libraries, workloads, and monitoring in a modern private cloud.
The course focuses on building competence as both a cloud provider and an operator within a VCF environment. Participants explore provider and organization architecture, identity and networking configuration, content management, blueprint creation, and workload deployment through both catalog-based and Kubernetes-based IaaS approaches.
In addition, the course provides deep insight into VCF Operations, including monitoring, alerting, dashboards, policies, health diagnostics, logging, storage operations, and network operations. By the end of the course, participants will be able to automate cloud services, deploy workloads, and proactively monitor and troubleshoot their VCF environment.
Key takeaways
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Describe VCF Automation architecture and core components
- Manage provider and organization infrastructure
- Configure provider and organization networking
- Create and manage blueprints, catalogs, and content libraries
- Deploy workloads using catalog and Kubernetes-based IaaS services
- Configure identity management and access control
- Navigate and customize VCF Operations dashboards and reports
- Create custom alerts, symptoms, and operational policies
- Monitor logs, storage, network performance, and health diagnostics
- Implement centralized monitoring and service discovery
Target audience
- System Architects
- System Administrators
- Cloud Infrastructure Engineers
- Virtualization Specialists
- Private Cloud Operators
Prerequisites
Participants should have completed:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage
Strong familiarity with virtualization and cloud infrastructure concepts is expected.
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 organization
- 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 utilization of the Region
- Discuss prerequisites and available options for creating a Region
5. Organizations
- Describe the different Organizations 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 Organization
- Create a VCF Automation All Apps Organization
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 it offers
- Configure IP Spaces and verify the configuration
- Configure the Provider Gateway and verify the status
- Synchronize Edge clusters and verify the status
- Configure regional networking for an Organization
- 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. Organization Networking with VPC
- Discuss Organization 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. Organization Management
- Identify the key components of an All Apps Organization
- Explain namespace classes
- Explain creating and managing Projects
- Discuss Chargeback for Organizations
- Integrate identity providers into Organizations
- Manage users and groups in an Organization
- Create and manage deployment-centric policies
- Create and manage Supervisor resource-centric policies
10. Organization 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 optimization 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 Centralized 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
Practical information
- Duration: 5 days
- Price: 46 000 NOK
- Language: English
- Format: Available as open enrollment and in-company training
FAQ
Hvem passer dette kurset for?
Kurset passer for systemarkitekter, systemadministratorer og fagpersoner som jobber med VMware Cloud Foundation og privat skyinfrastruktur.
Er dette et praktisk kurs?
Ja. Kurset inneholder omfattende hands-on øvelser innen både VCF Automation og VCF Operations.
Hvor lenge varer kurset?
Kurset gjennomføres over fem dager som instruktørledet undervisning.
Er dette kurset knyttet til en sertifisering?
Kurset er ikke direkte knyttet til en spesifikk sertifisering.
Hvilke forkunnskaper trenger jeg?
Du bør ha gjennomført VMware vSphere og VMware NSX kurs, samt ha erfaring med virtualisering og nettverk.
Vil jeg lære både automatisering og overvåking?
Ja. Kurset dekker både automatisering av skyinfrastruktur og operasjonell overvåking, inkludert logging, varsling og ytelsesovervåking.
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