Duration
VMware Cloud Foundation: Deploy, Configure, Manage [v5.2]
5 days
Overview
This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, managing, and operating VMware® Cloud Foundation™. You will learn about the architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation, storage and network management, licensing, and certificates. In addition to workload domains, availability, life cycle management, and troubleshooting, the course also covers VMware® Aria Suite™ integration and VMware® Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA architecture and components.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Plan a deployment for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Describe VMware Cloud Foundation components and supporting architecture
- Explain the VMware Cloud Foundation licensing model
- Perform day 0 tasks
- Perform VMware Cloud Foundation platform onboarding
- Manage user credentials in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Configure VMware NSX® networking in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Deploy and manage workload domains
- Understand and implement storage solutions and related policies
- Perform maintenance tasks for the VMware Cloud Foundation platform
- Manage certificates for VMware Cloud Foundation and connected technologies
- Manage the life cycle for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Deploy and manage VMware Aria Suite on VMware Cloud Foundation
- Understand the Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA architecture and components
- Engage with VMware Cloud Foundation Technical Support services
Target Audience
System architects and system administrators
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and experience:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage
Outline
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
- VMware Cloud Foundation Overview
- Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation solution
- Describe VMware Cloud Foundation components and architecture
- Describe vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation licensing options
- Day Zero Tasks
- Describe the process for planning and preparing a VMware Cloud Foundation design
- Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook
- Describe the fully automated deployment process of VMware SDDC components
- Post-Deployment Operations
- Use the VMware Cloud Foundation onboarding wizard to complete preliminary SDDC Manager setup tasks.
- Configure user access to VMware Cloud Foundation
- Manage passwords in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Describe password management with SDDC Manager APIs
- VMware Cloud Foundation Networking with NSX
- Describe NSX management and control planes
- Explain virtual IP addressing
- Describe logical switching
- Identify NSX Edge functions
- Describe NSX deployment in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Explain how logical routing works in NSX
- Identify NSX Edge functions
- Recognize Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway topologies
- Describe the spine-and-leaf design
- Describe the multi-NIC design
- Describe NSX Edge node design
- Discuss BGP and OSPF peering with the physical Network
- Describe cluster design and rack design
- Define application virtual networks
- Recognize management domain rack options
- Recognize NSX Edge cluster placement considerations
- Use SDDC Manager to deploy an application virtual network
- Managing Workload Domains
- Define the concept of workload domain
- Identify use cases for multiple clusters in a workload domain
- Describe the SSO domain architecture
- Define the concept of a network pool
- Explain how to create, edit, and delete a network pool
- Use SDDC Manager to commission hosts
- Describe workload domain design considerations
- Describe ESXi design considerations for a VI workload domain
- Describe vSphere design considerations for a VI workload domain
- Describe software-defined networking design considerations for a VI workload domain
- Describe shared storage design considerations for a VI workload domain
- Describe how to make workload domain design decisions
- Expand the workload domain
- Perform simultaneous cluster operations
- VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Management
- Describe storage options in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Recognize vSAN design considerations
- Identify sizing and performance considerations that impact the storage design
- Recognize vSAN design principles
- Identify components in the vSAN architecture
- Recognize vSAN requirements for the management domain and workload domains
- Define the concepts of deduplication and compression
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.