VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [9.0]

Course outline

Module 1: VCF Automation Overview and Architecture

Describe the features, benefits, and purposes of VCF Automation

Explain the architecture of VCF Automation

Module 2: Provider Infrastructure Management

Describe the provider management and provider consumption portals

List the supported options for provider administrator from the provider portal

Explain managing tasks and events from the provider portal

Describe the features of the provider consumption organization

Describe how to discover infrastructure resources

Explain how to manage IP spaces and provider gateways

Module 3: Provider Identity Management

Explain how to enable VCF SSO for the VCF Automation appliance

Discuss configuring VMware Cloud Foundation® Identity Broker as the identity provider

List the supported IdP (ODIC, SAML, LDAP)

Discuss how to register a provider-scoped identity provider

Explain managing VCF Automation roles and rights

Discuss managing VCF Automation users and groups

Discuss provider-scoped service accounts

Module 4: Regions

Explain the basics of a region

Identify the utilization of the region

Discuss prerequisites and available options for creating a region

Module 5: Organizations

Describe the different organizations offered in VCF Automation

Identify the use cases for manual setup and multitenancy

Identify use cases for quick setup

Create a VCF Automation VM apps organization

Create a VCF Automation all apps organization

Module 6: Provider Networking

Discuss prerequisites for creating the provider network

Discuss the workflow for configuring the provider network

Describe IP spaces

Discuss edge nodes, edge clusters, and the network services it offers

Configure IP spaces and verify the configuration

Configure the provider gateway and verify the status

Synchronize edge clusters and verify the status

Configure regional networking for an organization

Discuss steps to verify the creation of network resources in VMware NSX®, VMware vCenter®, and VCF Automation

Discuss the mapping of resources between VCF Automation, NSX, and vCenter

Module 7: Organization Networking with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Discuss organization networking

Discuss the architecture of the VPC

Discuss access modes and subnet types in VPC

Describe the scope of different subnet types in VPC

Discuss outbound routing and network address translations in VPC

Configure VPC with a default, custom connectivity profile, and verify its status

Configure private-TGW IP block, associate it with a VPC, and verify its status

Module 8: Provider Content Library

Describe the provider content library creation workflow

Explain publishing and subscribing to a content library

Module 9: Organization Management

Identify the key components of an all apps organization

Explain namespace classes

Explain creating and managing projects

Discuss chargeback for organizations

Integrate identity providers into organizations

Manage users and groups in an organization

Create and manage deployment-centric policies

Create and manage supervisor resource-centric policies

Module 10: Organization Content Management

Identify and manage the different content available in content hub

Differentiate between catalog self-service versus IaaS self-service

Publish content to catalog for end-user consumption

Deploy and modify catalog items

Configure and use custom forms

Explain the role of YAML in configuring and managing infrastructure as code

Publish content to catalog for end user consumption

Discuss the use of the embedded orchestrator

Discuss the use cases of an external orchestrator

Describe orchestrator workflows

Module 11: IaaS Platform Architecture and Deployment

Explain supervisor architecture

Discuss supervisor requirements

List supervisor use cases

Discuss the vSphere administrator workflow

List the components of the supervisor

Discuss the types of supervisor deployment

Discuss the requirements of supervisor deployment

Describe supervisor deployment during the VI workload domain creation

Module 12: Deploying Modern Apps with IaaS

Discuss self-service consumption with IaaS services in VCF 9

Discuss the features of the IaaS console

Describe how to get instance information from the console

Explain the YAML spec for the VM service

Discuss VCF CLI commands

Module 13: VCF Operations Overview

List the key features of VCF Operations

Outline VCF Operations use cases

Navigate the VCF Operations console

Identify the components of a VCF Operations node

Describe the different roles of the node in a VCF Operations cluster

Module 14: VCF Metrics, Views, and Reports

Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations

Outline the role of views in VCF Operations

List the steps to create a basic custom view and configure view settings

Outline the roles of reports in VCF Operations

List the steps to create a basic report and configure report settings

Module 15: VCF Dashboards

Describe the functions of dashboards

Create dashboards that use predefined and custom widgets

Manage dashboards by grouping and sharing with users

Explain the use cases of predefined dashboards and custom dashboards

List VCF Operations use cases

Module 16: VCF Symptoms and Alerts

Describe the purpose of using alerts

Identify the components of an alert definition

Create symptom definitions

View and manage triggered alerts in the VCF Operations console

Configure a custom alert using the create alert definition workflow

Module 17: VCF Health and Diagnostics

Outline the role of VCF Health and Diagnostics

Describe the VCF Health and Diagnostic findings features

Monitor the operational state of VCF instances

Explain troubleshooting workbench

Enable support teams with full context using log assist

Module 18: VCF Logs, Storage, and Network Operations

Describe the VCF Operations for logs overview

Describe the key benefits of the VCF Operations for logs

Describe the capabilities of VCF Operations for logs

Describe the VCF Storage Operations overview

Identify performance and health issues with the storage clusters

Describe the benchmarking and optimization tool to detect issues for a new cluster

Describe the VCF Network Operations overview

Discuss the different widgets available in VCF Network Operations

Identify the performance and health issues with the VCF Network object

Module 19: VCF Operations Policies

Describe the purposes of policies in VCF Operations

Configure policies and other components

Module 20: VCF Centralized Monitoring

Describe the infrastructure services monitoring capabilities

Describe the application monitoring capabilities

Describe the different types of application metrics

Outline the requirements to enable service discovery and application monitoring

Describe the different types of service metrics

Use collected metrics to interpret the status of services