VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0]

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

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should take the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage