This five-day course includes instruction on the capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation and how to successfully plan, deploy, manage, and operate hybrid and cloud infrastructures, including customization. The course explains the architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation and explains licensing, certificates, and storage and network management. The course also covers workload domains, availability, life cycle management, and troubleshooting.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe design implications of VMware Cloud Foundation standard or consolidated architecture
List requirements for VMware Cloud Foundation deployment
Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up process and the VMware Cloud Foundation architecture
Perform VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up
Describe physical and virtual networking considerations
Outline VMware Cloud Foundation storage options
Use the VMware Imaging Appliance to image ESXi hosts
Describe VMware Cloud Foundation multi-instance federation
Use VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager to perform operational tasks
Describe user roles in VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere
Manage users and passwords using VMware Cloud Foundation
Manage certificate rotation for VMware Cloud Foundation components
Use Active Directory integration to automate certificate generation and rotation
Describe workload domains
Manage workload domains in VMware Cloud Foundation
Manage VMware NSX-T for VMware Cloud Foundation
Describe use cases for Application Virtual Networks (AVNs)
Meet vSphere with VMware Tanzu requirements
Deploy a vSphere with Tanzu enabled workload domain
Manage VMware vSAN storage in a workload domain
Create vSAN storage policies
Describe Cloud Native storage
Describe the importance of business continuity measures in VMware Cloud Foundation
Plan appropriate backup and restore workflows for VMware Cloud Foundation components
Implement stretched clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation workload domains

1

  • Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
    Course objectives
2

  • VMware Cloud Foundation Overview

  • Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation solution
    Describe VMware Cloud Foundation architecture
    Identify VMware Cloud Foundation components
    Describe VMware Cloud Foundation topology
    Define VMware Cloud Foundation terminology
3

  • Day Zero Tasks

  • Identify the requirements for deploying VMware Cloud Foundation
    Identify management domain sizing considerations
    Identify workload domain sizing considerations
    Detail design considerations for ESXi in management and VI workload domains
    Detail design considerations for vCenter in management and VI workload domains
    Detail the VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up process
    Identify information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook
    Identify information required for the Deployment Parameter Workbook
    Describe how VMware Cloud Builder automates the deployment process
    Explain how the Deployment Parameter Workbook is imported into VMware Cloud Builder
    Recognize the configuration validation process performed by VMware Cloud Builder
    Detail the deployment of the management domain
    Recognize the options to image a host
    Identify the key capabilities of VIA
    Recognize how to use VIA for imaging the ESXi Nodes
4

  • Post Deployment Operations

  • Understand VMware Cloud Foundation integration with VMware Single Sign-On
    Configure user access to VMware Cloud Foundation
    Describe the importance of user roles in vSphere
    Configure identity sources in vSphere to use with VMware Cloud Foundation
    Manage passwords in VMware Cloud Foundation
    Explain the importance of using VMware Cloud Foundation to manage passwords for vSphere components
    Detail the best practices for password management for VMware Cloud Foundation
    Retrieve and secure the password list
    Describe the process for rotating passwords not managed by VMware Cloud Foundation
5

  • VMware Cloud Foundation License Management

  • Describe how to add license keys to the VMware Cloud Foundation inventory
    Describe how to view license keys in SDDC Manager
    Describe how to assign license keys
    Describe how to remove license keys
    Describe how to replace expiring licenses
6

  • VMware Cloud Foundation Networking with NSX-T

  • Describe NSX Management plane and Control planes
    Detail design considerations for workload domains with shared NSX Manager instances
    Detail design considerations for workload domains with dedicated NSX Manager instances
    Describe the spine-and-leaf design
    Describe the addressing scheme for the underlay
    Recognize possible variations of the spine-and-leaf design
    Describe the multi-NIC design
    Describe NSX Edge node design and BGP peering with the physical network
    Describe cluster design and rack design
    Explain dynamic routing with BGP
    Explain virtual IP addressing
    Describe logical switching
    Detail NSX Edge functions
    Define application virtual networks
    Describe management domain rack options
    List NSX Edge cluster requirements for vSphere with Tanzu
    Discuss NSX Edge cluster placement considerations
    Describe NSX-T Data Center deployment in VMware Cloud Foundation
    Explain how logical routing works in NSX-T Data Center
    Identify NSX Edge functions
    Describe data plane preparation for NSX-T Data Center Edge nodes in a workload domain
    Recognize Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway topologies
    Recognize features of NSX distributed firewalls
    Describe the benefits of NSX Federation in VMware Cloud Foundation
    Identify NSX Federation Use Cases
    Explain NSX Federation Components and Architecture
    Discuss NSX Federation configuration basics
7

  • Managing Workload Domains

  • Define workload domains
    Detail design considerations for vSphere networking in management and VI workload domains
    Detail design considerations for storage in management and VI workload domains
    Recognize design choices for a consolidated design or standard design
    List the types of workload domains
    State scale limits for workload domains
    Identify use cases for multiple clusters in a workload domain
    List workload domain prerequisites
    Explain how to create a workload domain
    Describe how to scale a workload domain
    Explain how to delete a workload domain
    Describe host decommissioning
8

  • vSphere with Tanzu in VMware Could Foundation

  • Discuss the vSphere with Tanzu solution
    Define the role of Spherelet
    Describe the supervisor cluster control plane
    Define vSphere with Tanzu namespaces
    Describe the role of NSX-T networking components
    Discuss vSphere with Tanzu networking topology
    Describe VMware Container Networking with Antrea
    Describe control plane VM management networking requirements
    Plan appropriate IP address CIDR ranges for pod, ingress, and egress networking
    Describe prerequisites for vSphere with Tanzu cluster compatibility
    Deploy vSphere with Kubernetes
    Create a vSphere namespace
    Configure limits and permissions for a vSphere namespace
    Enabling Harbor Image Registry
9

  • VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Management

  • Identify vSAN architecture and components
    Recognize storage options for VMware Cloud Foundation
    Recognize the connectivity options for supplemental storage
    Explain why vSAN is the best option for VMware Cloud Foundation storage
    Recognize vSAN design considerations
    Identify sizing and performance considerations that impact the storage design
    Describe vSAN requirements for the management and workload domains
    Define deduplication and compression
    Discuss how to scale vSAN clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation
    Explain how storage policies work with VMware Cloud Foundation vSAN clusters
    Explain storage policy failure tolerance rules
    Identify a VM storage policy compliance status
    Relate storage policies to Kubernetes storage classes
    Describe persistent volumes
    Monitor Cloud Native Storage in the vSphere Client
10

  • Availability and Business Continuity

  • Identify steps in the SDDC Manager backup and restore process
    Recognize the importance of external service availability
    Describe native vSphere availability options
    Identify steps in the NSX backup and restore process
    Identify stretched cluster use cases
    Identify stretched cluster components
    Recognize stretched cluster requirements in VMware Cloud Foundation
    Prepare and deploy a vSAN stretched cluster using APIs
11

  • VMware Cloud Foundation Certificate Management

  • Describe public key infrastructure (PKI)
    Explain the purpose of certificate signing requests (CSRs)
    List the available CA options in SDDC Manager
    Describe how to view certificates
    Explain how to generate a CSR
    Describe how to replace and install certificates for VMware Cloud Foundation components
    List the available CA options in SDDC Manager
    Explain how to configure the Microsoft CA server
    Describe how to install certificates issued by the Microsoft CA server
    Explain how to add OpenSSL CA in SDDC Manager
    Describe how to install certificates issued by OpenSSL CA
    Explain how to install certificates issued by third-party CAs
12

  • VMware Cloud Foundation Life Cycle Management

  • Describe Life Cycle Management
    List products that you can upgrade using VMware Cloud Foundation Lifecycle Manager
    Describe the available options for online and offline bundle download using VMware Cloud Foundation Lifecycle Manager
    Describe the role of vSphere Lifecycle Management in VMware Cloud Foundation
    Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager Baseline-based and Image-based Clusters
    Detail how and when to use cluster images
    Explain how to import a cluster image
    Explain how to extract a cluster image
    Describe the importance of hardware support managers
    Describe the upgrade prerequisites
    Outline the upgrade precheck process
    Describe the order of upgrade for VMware Cloud Foundation components
    Explain how to upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation software and components
13

  • VMware Imaging Appliance

  • Identify the requirements for starting a deployment
    List the options to image a host
    Identify the key capabilities of the VMware Imaging Appliance
    Explain how to use the VMware Imaging Appliance to image hosts
14

  • VMware Cloud Foundation Multisite Instance Federation

  • Recognize the benefits of the federation feature in VMware Cloud Foundation
    Describe the federation feature and multisite management
    Recognize ways a federation helps manage resources and provide visibility in a multi-instance implementation of VMware Cloud Foundation
    Describe how to create, join, leave, and dismantle a federation
    Recognize the design considerations for a federation
15

  • VMware Cloud Foundation Troubleshooting

  • Explain how to perform checks and create log bundles with the SoS tool
    List VMware Cloud Foundation services
    Identify VMware Cloud Foundation log files
    Describe the use of reference token IDs to troubleshoot failed workflows

Audience

Experienced system administrators, system integrators, and consultants responsible for implementing and managing VMware Cloud Foundation will benefit from this course.

Language

English

Prerequisites

This class requires system administration experience with vSphere deployments and completion of the following courses: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage VMware vSAN: Management and Operations

$4,250

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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