Course Overview
This five-day 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 organization management, provider and organization 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 customizing 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.
Who should attend
System architects and system administrators
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should take the following courses:
Course Objectives
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 Organizations as the cloud provider
- Configure networking at the cloud provider and organization levels
- Configure and manage content libraries at the provider and organization levels
- Manage access control in the organization 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
Course Content
- VCF Automation Overview and Architecture
- Provider Infrastructure Management
- Provider Identity Management
- Regions
- Organizations
- Provider Networking
- Organization Networking with VPC
- Provider Content Library
- Organization Management
- Organization Content Management
- IaaS Platform Architecture and Deployment
- Deploying Modern Apps with IaaS
- VCF Operations Overview
- VCF Metrics, Views, and Reports
- VCF Dashboards
- VCF Symptoms and Alerts
- VCF Health and Diagnostics
- VCF Logs, Storage, and Network Operations
- VCF Operations Policies
- VCF Centralized Monitoring