VMware Cloud Foundation: Management and Operations [V4.0]

This three-day course includes instruction on the capabilities of VMware Cloud Foundation™ to manage and operate hybrid and cloud infrastructures, which includes customization and management. The course explains the architecture of VMware vCloud Foundation and explains licensing, certificates, VMware vSAN™, maintenance, and multi-instancing. The course also covers workload domains, workload migration, availability, and troubleshooting.

In general, you learn how to use and configure VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.

Product Alignment

• VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.x
• VMware vSphere 7
• VMware NSX-T™ Data Center 3

This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere deployments or completion of one of the following courses:

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe VMware Cloud Foundation architecture
• Use SDDC Manager 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-T™ for VMware Cloud Foundation
• Describe use cases for Application Virtual Networks (AVNs)
• Meet VMware vSphere® with Kubernetes requirements
• Deploy a vSphere with Kubernetes enabled workload domain
• Manage vSAN 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

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

VMware Cloud Foundation Overview

• Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation 4 solution
• Describe VMware Cloud Foundation 4 architecture
• Identify VMware Cloud Foundation 4 components
• Describe VMware Cloud Foundation 4 topology
• Define VMware Cloud Foundation 4 terminology

Post Deployment Operations

• Integrate VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware vCenter® Single Sign-On
• Configure user accounts in VMware Cloud Foundation
• Manage passwords in VMware Cloud Foundation
• Describe the two roles in VMware Cloud Foundation

Licensing

• Add license keys to the VMware Cloud Foundation inventory
• Assign license keys
• Remove license keys
• Replace expiring licenses

Managing Workload Domains

• Define a workload domain
• Create, scale, and delete workload domains
• Describe use cases for multiple clusters in a workload domain
• Manage storage options for workload domains
• Plan and implement network pools for consumption by workload domains
• Compare multiple workload domains and multi-cluster options

VMware Cloud Foundation Networking with NSX-T

• Discuss NSX-T automation in VMware Cloud Foundation
• Discuss NSX-T in the Management Domain
• Learn About Application Virtual Networks (AVNs)
• Use of AVNs in the Deployment Parameter Sheet
• Other AVN uses

Kubernetes Enabled Workload Domains

• Describe vSphere with Kubernetes
• Describe vSphere with Kubernetes containers. pods, and supervisor clusters
• Configure Namespaces
• Implement vSphere with Kubernetes in a Workload Domain

VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Management

• Identify vSAN architecture and components
• Describe vSAN file services
• Discuss how to scale vSAN clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation
• Explain how storage policies work with VMware Cloud Foundation vSAN clusters
• Discuss external storage as supplemental storage
• Describe Cloud Native Storage
• Describe vSphere with Kubernetes for Cloud Native Storage consumption

VMware Cloud Foundation Certificate Management

• Describe the initial deployment state of certificates
• Manage SDDC certificate rotation
• Describe certificate creation options
• Describe certificate rotation using Active Directory
• Use SDDC Manager to create Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs)

Workload Migration

• Explain migration use cases
• Describe migration tools and methods
• Describe VLAN bridging using VMware NSX®
• Discuss the advantages of using VMware vSphere® Replication™ with VMware Site Recovery Manager™

Life Cycle Management

• Describe the role of SDDC Manager in lifecycle management
• Describe the different LCM options available in VMware Cloud Foundation 4
• Describe the upgrade prerequisites and upgrade precheck process
• Upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation software and components
• Describe the role of VMware vRealize® Suite Lifecycle Manager™

VMware Cloud Foundation Troubleshooting

• Use SOS commands to perform health checks and log bundle operations.
• Create service requests using best practices
• Troubleshoot failed workflows using log files and token IDs
• Restart services using the correct procedures
• Avoid common user errors