This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware Telco Cloud Automation environment. In this course, you are introduced to VMware Telco Cloud Automation infrastructure settings, deployment options and procedures. You will explore containers as a service and understand the workflow details of partner integration processes. You will learn about infrastructure automation and its importance in VMware Telco Cloud Automation. You will onboard and instantiate network functions and network services using hands-on lab exercises. In addition, this course teaches life cycle management workflows as well as several types of technical problems in VMware Telco Cloud Automation, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic process.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
List VMware Telco Cloud Automation deployment options and procedures
Define Infrastructure Automation and describe infrastructure deployment
Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Automation infrastructure settings
Configure containers as a service functionality
Describe partner integration options and procedures
Instantiate network services and network functions
Describe the authorization model of VMware Telco Cloud Automation
Define platform life cycle management (LCM) for VMware Telco Cloud Automation
Enumerate troubleshooting concepts and day two operations for VMware Telco Cloud Automation
Describe the use of APIs within VMware Telco Cloud Automation
List examples of how VMware Telco Cloud Automation can be used in a CICD environment

1

  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introductions and course logistics

    Course objectives

2

  • VMWARE TELCO CLOUD AUTOMATION INSTALLATION

  • Describe day zero operations for VMware Telco Cloud Automation

    Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Automation architecture

    List the steps to perform VMware Telco Cloud Automation deployment

    List the steps to perform VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane integration

    Describe VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane scaling

    Describe the requirements for other applications such as vRealize Orchestrator and Harbor

    Describe where, when, and how to use VMware Telco Cloud Automation tagging

3

  • DAY 1 OPERATIONS: INFRASTRUCTURE AUTOMATION

  • Describe infrastructure automation

    List the use cases of infrastructure automation

    List the benefits of infrastructure automation

    Describe the infrastructure requirements of infrastructure automation

    Describe the infrastructure automation domains

    List the steps to deploy an infrastructure using infrastructure automation

4

  • DAY 1 OPERATIONS: INFRASTRUCTURE SETTINGS

  • Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Automation infrastructure options

    Describe VMware Telco Cloud Automation infrastructure requirements

    Outline the role of virtual infrastructure and VMware Telco Cloud Automation

    Identify the benefits of public and private infrastructures

    List the steps to integrate a VM-based virtual infrastructure

    List the steps to integrate a container-based virtual infrastructure

    Describe private infrastructure requirements

5

  • DAY 1 OPERATIONS: CONTAINERS AS A SERVICE

  • Define containers as a service (CaaS)

    List the challenges of CNF deployment without automation

    Describe the Kubernetes and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid architectures

    List steps to create a Kubernetes cluster template

    Describe the process for deploying node pools and groups

    List the steps to support anti-affinity of workload cluster nodes

    Describe cluster monitoring

    List CaaS scale options

6

  • DAY 1 OPERATIONS: PARTNER INTEGRATION

  • Describe partner integration and the types of partners

    Describe Harbor and the various Harbor platforms

    List the steps to interface with a Harbor platform

    Compare and contrast specialized VNF managers (S-VNFMs) and generic VNF managers (G-VNFMs)

    Explain how to add an S-VNFM

    Define S-VNFM use cases

    List the benefits and challenges of using Airgap

7

  • DAY 1 OPERATIONS: NETWORK FUNCTIONS AD NETWORK SERVICES

  • Describe the roles of network services and network functions

    List the types of descriptors

    Describe the role of TOSCA

    Describe the role of onboarding

    List the steps to onboard network functions and network services

    Examine the results of the onboarding process

    List the steps to instantiate network functions and network services

    Examine the results of the instantiation process

8

  • DAY 2 OPERATIONS: AUTHORIZATION MODEL

  • Explain the resources that can be accessed in vSphere

    Define the role of a vCenter Server system in credential management

    Define the role of Keycloak in credential management

    Describe the procedures to create, delete, and modify rules using vCenter Server

    Explain how to control and verify access to vSphere resources

    List the roles in VMware Telco Cloud Automation

    Explain the tasks and list the levels of permissions needed in VMware Telco Cloud Automation

    List all the permissions and filters that can be implemented in VMware Telco Cloud Automation

9

  • DAY 2 OPERATIONS: LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT

  • Explain the life cycle stages in VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane

    Explain the life cycle stages in VMware Telco Cloud Automation

    Define an upgrade schedule

    Apply an upgrade schedule for life cycle management of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane

    Apply an upgrade schedule for life cycle management in VMware Telco Cloud Automation

    Describe network function and network service life cycle management events

    Execute network function and network service healing

    Perform network function and network service termination

10

  • DAY 2 OPERATIONS: TROUBLESHOOTING

  • List the components of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation dashboard

    Explain the features of fault management in VMware Telco Cloud Automation

    Explain the features of performance management in VMware Telco Cloud Automation

    Describe the use of fault management of VMware Telco Cloud Automation for VNFs and CNFs

    Describe the use of performance management of VMware Telco Cloud Automation for VNFs and CNFs

    Describe the use of CCLI for troubleshooting

    Define the procedures to integrate vRealize Operations Manager with VMware Telco Cloud Automation

    Describe how to use vRealize Operations

11

  • DAY TWO OPERATIONS: API MANAGEMENT

  • Define the VMware Telco Cloud Automation API

    Explain the API architecture

    Describe VMware Telco Cloud Automation API use cases

    Describe how to request security tokens for implementation

    Explain how to implement commands through external systems using APIs

12

  • DAY TWO OPERATIONS: CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION AND CONTINUOUS DELIVERY

  • Describe continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD)

    List the benefits and challenges of CICD

    Describe how VMware Telco Cloud Automation can be used in a CICD environment

    Explore VMware Telco Cloud Automation CICD examples

Audience

Telco cloud system administrators and telco network operations engineers Professionals who work with telco or enterprise and data center networks Designers and operations engineers who manage telco workloads

Language

English

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have completed the VMware Telco Cloud Automation Fundamentals course. You should also have the following understanding or knowledge: Good understanding of VMware products like VMware vSphere®, VMware NSX®, VMware vSAN™, TKG, and VMware vCloud Director® Knowledge and working experience of network functions virtualization, including: ETSI NFV framework, virtualized network functions, and related Interfaces Kubernetes, Helm, cloud-native network functions, and CNI

$4,250

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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