VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [v9.1]

• Describe VCF Automation components and supporting architecture.
• Perform infrastructure management as a cloud provider.
• Set up Regions and Organizations as the cloud provider.
• Configure networking at the cloud provider and organization level using VCF Automation 9.1 Network Architecture.
• Set up and manage content libraries at the provider and organization level, including Multi-Supervisor Region Quota (MSRQ) enhancements introduced in VCF 9.1.
• Manage access control in the organization using users and groups.
• Create and manage infrastructure blueprints and catalogs.
• Discuss the use of the embedded orchestrator to create workflows.
• Deploy VM workloads using the catalog deployment and Kubernetes-based IaaS deployments.
• List the key features and use cases of VCF Operations.
• Create custom views, reports, and dashboards.
• Create custom symptoms and alert definitions.
• Outline the role of VCF Health, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Workbench.
• Identify performance and health issues with Storage and Network clusters using VCF Operations.
• Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment.
• Configure service discovery and application monitoring, including VKS cluster monitoring.

Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics.
• Course objectives and overview of VCF 9.1

VCF Automation Overview

• Describe the common terms in a VCF deployment
• Describe fleet-wide identity providers in VCF Operations
• Explain the features and benefits of VCF Automation
• Describe the building blocks and architecture of VCF Automation
• Explain VCF Management Service Platform

Provider Infrastructure Management

• Describe the provider management portal
• Discover infrastructure resources and validate vCenter, VCF Instance, NSX Manager, and Edge clusters
• Explain infrastructure policies in VCF Automation

Provider Identity Management

• Explain how to enable and configure VCF Single Sign-On for the Automation Appliance
• Describe identity providers used in VCF Automation (OpenID, LDAP, SAML)
• Explain predefined roles, rights bundles, and access control
• Describe service accounts and API tokens

VCF Automation Regions

• Define a region and list prerequisites for creating a region
• Explain the relationship between a region, Supervisor, and NSX Manager
• Describe VM Classes, reserved VM Classes, and storage classes
• Describe the features and capabilities of the provider content library

VCF Automation Organizations

• Describe the different organizations offered in VCF Automation
• Explain the region quota enhancements in VCF 9.1 over VCF 9.0
• Design Multi-Supervisor Region (MSRQ) environments, a new capability in VCF 9.1
• Explain auto-expansion and auto-shrinkage features of content libraries in MSRQ
• Describe tenant content library placement changes introduced in VCF 9.1
• Create an All Apps Organization

VCF Automation Networking

• Explain VCF Automation 9.1 Network Architecture and UI enhancements
• Describe Provider Networking, External IP Blocks, and shared Subnets
• Describe the integration of Infoblox IPAM introduced in VCF Automation 9.1
• Explain Regional Networking
• Configure Organization Networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, VLAN Extended Subnet)
• Configure Workload Networking and VM Load Balancer Service

Organization Management

• Explain creating and managing projects, vSphere namespaces, and namespace classes
• Explain Namespace Self-Service and binding workflows
• Discuss namespace update workflows
• Apply infrastructure policies in VCF Automation

Organization Content Management

• Identify and manage content available in Content Hub
• Create and deploy VCF Automation Blueprints using YAML
• Explain the Supervisor Namespace capture feature
• Configure and use Custom Forms
• Describe the use of the Embedded Orchestrator and Workflows

Deploy Modern Apps

• Discuss Cloud services deployed through vSphere Supervisor
• Explain self-service consumption with IaaS services in VCF 9.1
• Discuss direct mode versus linked mode in IaaS
• Discuss the end-to-end workflow for deploying Virtual Machine instances
• Define container service in VCF Automation

VCF Operations Overview

• List the key features and use cases of VCF Operations
• Identify the components of a VCF Operations node and cluster
• Discuss Availability Zones
• Perform basic VCF Operations console navigation

VCF Metrics, Views and Reports

• Outline the role of metrics and views in VCF Operations
• Create a basic custom view and configure view settings
• Create a basic report and configure report settings

Dashboards

• Describe the functions of dashboards
• Create dashboards using predefined and custom widgets
• Manage dashboards by grouping and sharing with users

VCF Operations Policies

• Describe the purposes of policies in VCF Operations
• Configure policies and other components

Symptoms and Alerts

• Describe the purpose of using alerts and identify components of an alert definition
• Create static symptom definitions and configure threshold types
• Configure a custom alert using the Create Alert Definition workflow

VCF Health, Findings, and Workbench

• Outline the role of VCF Health and Diagnostics
• Monitor the operational state of VCF Instances
• Describe the capabilities of Troubleshooting Workbench
• Enable support teams with full context using Log Assist

VCF Logs and Storage

• Describe the log management capabilities in VCF Operations
• Identify performance and health issues with Storage clusters

Workload Monitoring

• Describe infrastructure services and application monitoring capabilities
• Enable service discovery for a VCF deployment
• Describe VKS cluster monitoring capabilities introduced in VCF Operations 9.1
• Configure vCenter and VCF Operations to enable VKS enhanced observability