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Duration

5 Days

30 CPD hours

This course is intended for

Experienced system administrators, system integrators, and consultants responsible for implementing and managing VMware Cloud Foundation

Overview

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe design implications of VMware Cloud Foundation standard or consolidated architecture
List requirements for VMware Cloud Foundation deployment
Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up process and the VMware Cloud Foundation architecture
Perform VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up
Describe physical and virtual networking considerations
Outline VMware Cloud Foundation storage options
Use the VMware Imaging Appliance to image ESXi hosts
Describe VMware Cloud Foundation multi-instance federation
Use VMware Cloud Foundationâ¢ SDDC Managerâ¢ to perform operational tasks
Describe user roles in VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere
Manage users and passwords using VMware Cloud Foundation
Manage certificate rotation for VMware Cloud Foundation components
Use Active Directory integration to automate certificate generation and rotation
Describe workload domains
Manage workload domains in VMware Cloud Foundation
Manage VMware NSX-Tâ¢ for VMware Cloud Foundation
Describe use cases for Application Virtual Networks (AVNs)
Meet vSphere with VMware Tanzuâ¢ requirements
Deploy a vSphere with Tanzu enabled workload domain
Manage VMware vSANâ¢ storage in a workload domain
Create vSAN storage policies
Describe Cloud Native storage
Describe the importance of business continuity measures in VMware Cloud Foundation
Plan appropriate backup and restore workflows for VMware Cloud Foundation components
Implement stretched clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation workload domains

This five-day course includes instruction on the capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation? and how to successfully plan, deploy, manage, and operate hybrid and cloud infrastructures, including customization. The course explains the architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation and explains licensing, certificates, and storage and network management. The course also covers workload domains, availability, life cycle management, and troubleshooting.

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

VMware Cloud Foundation Overview

Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation solution

Describe VMware Cloud Foundation architecture

Identify VMware Cloud Foundation components

Describe VMware Cloud Foundation topology

Define VMware Cloud Foundation terminology

Day Zero Tasks

Identify the requirements for deploying VMware Cloud Foundation

Identify management domain sizing considerations

Identify workload domain sizing considerations

Detail design considerations for ESXi in management and VI workload domains

Detail design considerations for vCenter in management and VI workload domains

Detail the VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up process

Identify information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook

Identify information required for the Deployment Parameter Workbook

Describe how VMware Cloud Builder automates the deployment process

Explain how the Deployment Parameter Workbook is imported into VMware Cloud Builder

Recognize the configuration validation process performed by VMware Cloud Builder

Detail the deployment of the management domain

Recognize the options to image a host

Identify the key capabilities of VIA

Recognize how to use VIA for imaging the ESXi Nodes

Post Deployment Operations

Understand VMware Cloud Foundation integration with VMware Single Sign-On

Configure user access to VMware Cloud Foundation

Describe the importance of user roles in vSphere

Configure identity sources in vSphere to use with VMware Cloud Foundation

Manage passwords in VMware Cloud Foundation

Explain the importance of using VMware Cloud Foundation to manage passwords for vSphere components

Detail the best practices for password management for VMware Cloud Foundation

Retrieve and secure the password list

Describe the process for rotating passwords not managed by VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware Cloud Foundation License Management

Describe how to add license keys to the VMware Cloud Foundation inventory

Describe how to view license keys in SDDC Manager

Describe how to assign license keys

Describe how to remove license keys

Describe how to replace expiring licenses

VMware Cloud Foundation Networking with NSX-T

Describe NSX Management plane and Control planes

Detail design considerations for workload domains with shared NSX Manager instances

Detail design considerations for workload domains with dedicated NSX Manager instances

Describe the spine-and-leaf design

Describe the addressing scheme for the underlay

Recognize possible variations of the spine-and-leaf design

Describe the multi-NIC design

Describe NSX Edge node design and BGP peering with the physical network

Describe cluster design and rack design

Explain dynamic routing with BGP

Explain virtual IP addressing

Describe logical switching

Detail NSX Edge functions

Define application virtual networks

Describe management domain rack options

List NSX Edge cluster requirements for vSphere with Tanzu

Discuss NSX Edge cluster placement considerations

Describe NSX-T Data Center deployment in VMware Cloud Foundation

Explain how logical routing works in NSX-T Data Center

Identify NSX Edge functions

Describe data plane preparation for NSX-T Data Center Edge nodes in a workload domain

Recognize Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway topologies

Recognize features of NSX distributed firewalls

Describe the benefits of NSX Federation in VMware Cloud Foundation

Identify NSX Federation Use Cases

Explain NSX Federation Components and Architecture

Discuss NSX Federation configuration basics

Managing Workload Domains

Define workload domains

Detail design considerations for vSphere networking in management and VI workload domains

Detail design considerations for storage in management and VI workload domains

Recognize design choices for a consolidated design or standard design

List the types of workload domains

State scale limits for workload domains

Identify use cases for multiple clusters in a workload domain

List workload domain prerequisites

Explain how to create a workload domain

Describe how to scale a workload domain

Explain how to delete a workload domain

Describe host decommissioning

vSphere with Tanzu in VMware Could Foundation

Discuss the vSphere with Tanzu solution

Define the role of Spherelet

Describe the supervisor cluster control plane

Define vSphere with Tanzu namespaces

Describe the role of NSX-T networking components

Discuss vSphere with Tanzu networking topology

Describe VMware Container Networking with Antrea

Describe control plane VM management networking requirements

Plan appropriate IP address CIDR ranges for pod, ingress, and egress networking

Describe prerequisites for vSphere with Tanzu cluster compatibility

Deploy vSphere with Kubernetes

Create a vSphere namespace

Configure limits and permissions for a vSphere namespace

Enabling Harbor Image Registry

VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Management

Identify vSAN architecture and components

Recognize storage options for VMware Cloud Foundation

Recognize the connectivity options for supplemental storage

Explain why vSAN is the best option for VMware Cloud Foundation storage

Recognize vSAN design considerations

Identify sizing and performance considerations that impact the storage design

Describe vSAN requirements for the management and workload domains

Define deduplication and compression

Discuss how to scale vSAN clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation

Explain how storage policies work with VMware Cloud Foundation vSAN clusters

Explain storage policy failure tolerance rules

Identify a VM storage policy compliance status

Relate storage policies to Kubernetes storage classes

Describe persistent volumes

Monitor Cloud Native Storage in the vSphere Client

Availability and Business Continuity

Identify steps in the SDDC Manager backup and restore process

Recognize the importance of external service availability

Describe native vSphere availability options

Identify steps in the NSX backup and restore process

Identify stretched cluster use cases

Identify stretched cluster components

Recognize stretched cluster requirements in VMware Cloud Foundation

Prepare and deploy a vSAN stretched cluster using APIs

VMware Cloud Foundation Certificate Management

Describe public key infrastructure (PKI)

Explain the purpose of certificate signing requests (CSRs)

List the available CA options in SDDC Manager

Describe how to view certificates

Explain how to generate a CSR

Describe how to replace and install certificates for VMware Cloud Foundation components

List the available CA options in SDDC Manager

Explain how to configure the Microsoft CA server

Describe how to install certificates issued by the Microsoft CA server

Explain how to add OpenSSL CA in SDDC Manager

Describe how to install certificates issued by OpenSSL CA

Explain how to install certificates issued by third-party CAs

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