During this three-day course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® in a VMware vSphere® 8 environment. You learn how vSphere with Tanzu provides services to deploy and manage virtual machines and vSphere Pods. You will also gain experience with managing Supervisor Services and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters in addition to day 2 operations and life cycle management.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe how vSphere with Tanzu fits in the VMware Tanzu® portfolio
Describe the vSphere with Tanzu concepts and architecture
Describe vSphere with Tanzu on VMware NSX®
Describe vSphere with Tanzu on VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
List the load balancer solutions supported by vSphere with Tanzu
Describe the vSphere with Tanzu storage components
Deploy and manage Supervisors
Deploy and manage virtual machines using the VM Service
Deploy and configure Contour as a Supervisor Service
Deploy and configure ExternalDNS as a Supervisor Service
Deploy and configure Harbor as a Supervisor Service
Deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters
Deploy applications in a vSphere with Tanzu environment
Perform a backup using Velero
Use the vSphere UI and CLI to monitor the health of the vSphere with Tanzu environment
Use logs and CLI commands to troubleshoot the vSphere with Tanzu environment

1

  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introductions and course logistics

    Course objectives

2

  • INTRODUCING VSPHERE WITH TANZU

  • Describe vSphere with Tanzu

    Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

    Describe VMware Tanzu® Mission Control

    Describe VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations

    Explain the purpose of vSphere with Tanzu

    Identify the capabilities of vSphere with Tanzu

    Describe the vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor

    Identify the components of the vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor

    Describe vSphere Namespaces

    Describe the Supervisor Services

    Describe the VM Service

    Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

3

  • VSPHERE WITH TANZU INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Explain the storage concepts in vSphere with Tanzu

    Describe storage policies

    Describe content libraries

    Describe Container Storage Interface

    Discuss storage for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

    Explain vSAN Direct datastores for vSphere with Tanzu

    Identify the two network stacks available for vSphere with Tanzu deployments

    Describe the VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™ components that are used by vSphere with Tanzu

    List the VMware NSX® components that are used by vSphere with Tanzu

    List the load balancer solutions supported by vSphere with Tanzu

4

  • VSPHERE WITH TANZU ARCHITECTURE

  • Describe the Supervisor architecture

    List the different options for deploying the Supervisor

    Outline the requirements for deploying a Supervisor

    Outline the licensing requirements for the Supervisor

    Describe vSphere Namespaces

    List vSphere Namespaces resources and Kubernetes object limits

    Describe content libraries and VM images

    Describe VM classes

    List the different type of authentication available in vSphere with Tanzu

    Explain vSphere privileges

    Explain roles and permissions in vSphere Namespaces

    Explain Tanzu Kubernetes Grid RBAC

    List the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid authentication methods

    Describe Kubernetes CLI Tools for vSphere

    List the vSphere with Tanzu services and workloads

    Identify the supportability for vSphere with Tanzu services and workloads based on the Supervisor deployment types

5

  • VSPHERE WITH TANZU CORE SERVICES

  • Describe the characteristics of vSphere Pods

    Recognize the capabilities of vSphere Pods

    Identify the components of vSphere Pods

    Describe the VM Service

    Explain the use cases of the VM Service

    List the VM Service parameters

    Outline the requirements for deploying a VM using the VM Service

    Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

    List the components of a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster

    List the options for deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters

    List the different types of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters

    Outline the requirements for deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster

6

  • VSPHERE WITH TANZU SUPERVISOR SERVICES

  • Explain the concept of Supervisor Services

    Describe the Supervisor Services catalog and its available services

    Explain how to add and manage the life cycle of Supervisor Services

7

  • VSPHERE WITH TANZU LIFE CYCLE

  • List the prerequisites and steps for updating vSphere with Tanzu

    Explain the Supervisor updates

    Explain the vSphere Namespace update

    Discuss the update process of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

8

  • DAY 2 OPERATIONS

  • Explain how to view Kubernetes namespace events

    List ways to monitor vSphere Pod utilization

    Identify how to monitor vSphere Pod performance

    Explain vSphere with Tanzu control plane certificate management

    Identify the various vSphere with Tanzu logs

    List the steps to generate a vSphere with Tanzu support bundle

    Explain how to use SSH to connect to the Supervisor control plane nodes

Audience

vSphere administrators and platform operators who are responsible for deploying and managing workloads and services in vSphere with Tanzu

Language

English

Prerequisites

Experience deploying and managing vSphere Understanding of Kubernetes and the Kubernetes cluster architecture Attending one of the following courses is recommended: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations

$2,775

Length: 3.0 days (24 hours)

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