Duration

3 days

OVERVIEW

During this three-day course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® in a VMware vSphere® 8 environment. You learn how vSphere with Tanzu provides services to deploy and manage virtual machines, vSphere Pods, Supervisor Services, and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters. You will also gain experience with day 2 operations and life cycle management of a vSphere with Tanzu environment.

Product Alignment

VMware vSphere® 8 Update 1

VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ 22.1.3

VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ 2.0

COURSE OBJECTIVES

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

Describe how vSphere with Tanzu fits in the VMware Tanzu® portfolio
Describe the vSphere with Tanzu concepts and architecture
Describe vSphere with Tanzu on VMware NSX®
Describe vSphere with Tanzu on VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
List the load balancer solutions supported by vSphere with Tanzu
Describe the vSphere with Tanzu storage components
Deploy and manage Supervisors
Describe vSphere Pod capabilities and components
Deploy and configure Contour as a Supervisor Service
Deploy and configure ExternalDNS as a Supervisor Service
Deploy and configure Harbor as a Supervisor Service
Deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters
Deploy and manage virtual machines using the VM Service
Deploy applications in a vSphere with Tanzu environment
Perform a backup using Velero
Use the vSphere UI and CLI to monitor the health of the vSphere with Tanzu environment
Use logs and CLI commands to troubleshoot the vSphere with Tanzu environment

PREREQUISITES

Experience deploying and managing vSphere
Understanding of Kubernetes and the Kubernetes cluster architecture

Attending one of the following courses is recommended:

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations

TARGET AUDIENCE

vSphere administrators and platform operators who are responsible for deploying and managing workloads and services in vSphere with Tanzu

COURSE MODULES

1 Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

2 Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes

Differentiate between containers and virtual machines

Identify the parts of a container system

List the steps in a basic Docker workflow

Explain the importance of Kubernetes

Identify the basic architecture of Kubernetes

Describe a basic Kubernetes workflow

3 Introducing vSphere with Tanzu

Describe vSphere with Tanzu

Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

Describe VMware Tanzu® Mission Control

Describe VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations

Explain the purpose of vSphere with Tanzu

Identify the capabilities of vSphere with Tanzu

Describe the vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor

Identify the components of the vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor

Describe vSphere Namespaces

Describe the Supervisor Services

Describe the VM Service

Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

4 vSphere with Tanzu Infrastructure

Discuss storage concepts for vSphere with Tanzu

Describe storage policies

Describe content libraries

Explain the Container Storage Interface plug-in functionalities

Discuss storage for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

Describe the vSAN Direct datastore for vSphere with Tanzu

Identify the two network stacks available for vSphere with Tanzu deployments

List the VDS components that vSphere with Tanzu supports

List the NSX components that vSphere with Tanzu supports

Outline the supported load balancer solutions by vSphere with Tanzu

5 vSphere with Tanzu Architecture

Describe the Supervisor architecture

List the different options for deploying the Supervisor

Outline the requirements for deploying a Supervisor

Outline the licensing requirements for the Supervisor

Describe vSphere Namespaces

List vSphere Namespace resources and Kubernetes object limits

Define content libraries and VM images

Explain VM classes

Describe Kubernetes CLI Tools for vSphere

List the different types of authentication available in vSphere with Tanzu

Explain vSphere privileges

Explain roles and permissions in vSphere Namespaces

Explain Tanzu Kubernetes Grid RBAC

List the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid authentication methods

List the vSphere with Tanzu services and workloads

Identify the supportability for vSphere with Tanzu services and workloads based on the Supervisor deployment types

6 vSphere with Tanzu Workloads and Services

Describe the characteristics of vSphere Pods

Identify the capabilities of vSphere Pods

List the components of vSphere Pods

Explain the concept of Supervisor Services

Describe the Supervisor Services catalog and its available services

Discuss how to add Supervisor Services and manage their life cycle

Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

List the components of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

List the options for deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters

List the different types of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters

Outline the requirements for deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster

Describe the VM Service

Explain the use cases of the VM Service

List the VM Service parameters

Outline the requirements for deploying a VM using the VM Service

7 Day 2 Operations

Explain how to view Kubernetes namespace events

List the ways to monitor vSphere Pod, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster, and VM performance and utilization

Describe vSphere with Tanzu control plane certificate management

Describe load balancer certificate management

Describe the prerequisites and steps for updating vSphere with Tanzu

Describe the Supervisor updates

Describe the vSphere Namespace updates

Describe the update process of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

List the steps to back up the vSphere with Tanzu components

Explain how to back up a Supervisor

Define Velero Plugin for vSphere and standalone Velero

Identify the steps to install Velero on workload clusters

Explain how to back up and restore vSphere with Tanzu workloads with the Velero CLI

Describe the various vSphere with Tanzu logs

Explain how to generate a vSphere with Tanzu support bundle

Explain how to use SSH to connect to Supervisor control plane nodes

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.