Course Overview
This five day course explores the architecture and design considerations for an initial deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The course explains the architecture framework and language, as well as design considerations for building, operationalizing, and consuming a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. The scope of the course is centered on the core design considerations applicable to a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment in a single site.
Who should attend
Technical and Solution Architects and Consultants who design enterprise-grade private cloud environments
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe and apply an appropriate design framework.
- Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions and risks.
- Understand VMware VCF constructs such as site, fleet and instance.
- Understand data center fabric needs to support VCF.
- Understand VCF storage and network design options.
- Design a single site single fleet deployment of VCF with recommended design options.
- Design management and workload domains with appropriate compute and storage resources.
- Design a consumption layer leveraging VCF Automation and Supervisor.
- Understand the day-2 operating model, operations metrics, and reporting needs of VCF.
- Understand future opportunities to extend the VCF platform with advanced services.
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Architecture Frameworks and Models
- VMware Cloud Foundation Overview
- VCF Fleet and Instance Design
- Building the Physical Fabric and VCF Networking Design
- Storage and vSAN Essentials
- Management Domain
- Workload Domains
- VCF AMPRS Considerations Summary
- VCF Consumption Design with VCF Automation and Supervisor
- Day 2 Operations with VCF
- VCF Upgrade Considerations
- VCF Advanced Services
German
Germany