VCFAOVMVMwareVM-VCFAO9.0<p>By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:</p> <ul> <li>Describe VCF Automation components and supporting architecture</li><li>Perform infrastructure management as a cloud provider</li><li>Deploy Regions and Organizations as the cloud provider</li><li>Configure networking at the cloud provider and organization levels</li><li>Configure and manage content libraries at the provider and organization levels</li><li>Manage access control in the organization using users and groups</li><li>Create and manage infrastructure blueprints and catalogs</li><li>Describe the use of the embedded orchestrator to create workflows</li><li>Deploy VM workloads using catalog deployment and Kubernetes-based IaaS deployments</li><li>List the key features of VCF Operations</li><li>Outline VCF Operations use cases</li><li>Create custom views and reports</li><li>Describe the functions of dashboards</li><li>Create custom dashboards</li><li>Create custom symptoms and alert definitions</li><li>Outline the role of VCF Health and Diagnostics</li><li>Explain Troubleshooting Workbench</li><li>Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation&reg; Operations for logs overview</li><li>Identify performance and health issues with the Storage clusters using Storage Operations</li><li>Identify performance and health issues with the VCF Network objects</li><li>Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment</li><li>Configure service discovery and application monitoring</li></ul><p>Before taking this course, students should take the following courses: </p> <ul> <li><span class="cms-link-marked"><a class="fl-href-prod" href="/swisscom/en/course/vmware-vsicm8"><svg role="img" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-nosnippet class="cms-linkmark"><use xlink:href="/css/img/icnset-linkmarks.svg#linkmark"></use></svg>VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] <span class="fl-prod-pcode">(VSICM8)</span></a></span></li><li><span class="cms-link-marked"><a class="fl-href-prod" href="/swisscom/en/course/vmware-nsxicm4"><svg role="img" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false" data-nosnippet class="cms-linkmark"><use xlink:href="/css/img/icnset-linkmarks.svg#linkmark"></use></svg>VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0] <span class="fl-prod-pcode">(NSXICM4)</span></a></span></li></ul><p>System architects and system administrators</p><ul> <li>VCF Automation Overview and Architecture</li><li>Provider Infrastructure Management</li><li>Provider Identity Management</li><li>Regions</li><li>Organizations</li><li>Provider Networking</li><li>Organization Networking with VPC</li><li>Provider Content Library</li><li>Organization Management</li><li>Organization Content Management</li><li>IaaS Platform Architecture and Deployment</li><li>Deploying Modern Apps with IaaS</li><li>VCF Operations Overview</li><li>VCF Metrics, Views, and Reports</li><li>VCF Dashboards</li><li>VCF Symptoms and Alerts</li><li>VCF Health and Diagnostics</li><li>VCF Logs, Storage, and Network Operations</li><li>VCF Operations Policies</li><li>VCF Centralized Monitoring</li></ul><h5>VCF Automation Overview and Architecture</h5><ul> <li>Describe the features, benefits, and purposes of VCF Automation</li><li>Explain the architecture of VCF Automation</li></ul><h5>Provider Infrastructure Management</h5><ul> <li>Describe the provider management and provider consumption portals</li><li>List the supported options for provider administrator from the provider portal</li><li>Explain managing tasks and events from the provider portal</li><li>Describe the features of the provider consumption organization</li><li>Describe how to discover infrastructure resources</li><li>Explain how to manage IP spaces and provider gateways</li></ul><h5>Provider Identity Management</h5><ul> <li>Explain how to enable VCF SSO for the Automation appliance</li><li>Discuss configuring VMware Cloud Foundation&reg; Identity Broker as the identity provider</li><li>List the supported IdP (ODIC, SAML, LDAP)</li><li>Discuss how to register a provider-scoped identity provider</li><li>Explain managing VCF Automation roles and rights</li><li>Discuss managing VCF Automation users and groups</li><li>Discuss provider-scoped service accounts</li></ul><h5>Regions</h5><ul> <li>Explain the basics of a Region</li><li>Identify the utilization of the Region</li><li>Discuss prerequisites and available options for creating a Region</li></ul><h5>Organizations</h5><ul> <li>Describe the different Organizations offered in VCF Automation</li><li>Identify the use cases for manual setup and multitenancy</li><li>Identify use cases for Quick Setup</li><li>Create a VCF Automation VM Apps Organization</li><li>Create a VCF Automation All Apps Organization</li></ul><h5>Provider Networking</h5><ul> <li>Discuss prerequisites for creating the provider network</li><li>Discuss the workflow for configuring the provider network</li><li>Describe IP Spaces</li><li>Discuss Edge nodes, Edge clusters, and the network services it offers</li><li>Configure IP Spaces and verify the configuration</li><li>Configure the Provider Gateway and verify the status</li><li>Synchronize Edge clusters and verify the status</li><li>Configure regional networking for an Organization</li><li>Discuss steps to verify the creation of network resources in VMware NSX&reg;, VMware vCenter&reg;, and VCF Automation.</li><li>Discuss the mapping of resources between VCF Automation, NSX, and vCenter</li></ul><h5>Organization Networking with VPC</h5><ul> <li>Discuss Organization Networking</li><li>Discuss the architecture of the VPC</li><li>Discuss access modes and subnet types in VPC</li><li>Describe the scope of different subnet types in VPC</li><li>Discuss Outbound Routing and Network Address Translations in VPC</li><li>Configure VPC with a default, custom connectivity profile and verify its status</li><li>Configure Private-TGW IP Block, associate it with a VPC, and verify its status</li></ul><h5>Provider Content Library</h5><ul> <li>Describe the Provider Content Library creation workflow</li><li>Explain publishing and subscribing to a Content Library</li></ul><h5>Organization Management</h5><ul> <li>Identify the key components of an All Apps Organization</li><li>Explain namespace classes</li><li>Explain creating and managing Projects</li><li>Discuss Chargeback for Organizations</li><li>Integrate identity providers into Organizations</li><li>Manage users and groups in an Organization</li><li>Create and manage deployment-centric policies</li><li>Create and manage Supervisor resource-centric policies</li></ul><h5>Organization Content Management</h5><ul> <li>Identify and manage the different content available in Content Hub</li><li>Differentiate between catalog self-service versus IaaS self-service</li><li>Publish content to Catalog for end-user consumption</li><li>Deploy and modify Catalog items</li><li>Configure and use custom forms</li><li>Explain the role of YAML in configuring and managing infrastructure as code</li><li>Publish Content to Catalog for End User Consumption</li><li>Discuss the use of the embedded orchestrator</li><li>Discuss the use cases of an external orchestrator</li><li>Describe orchestrator workflows</li></ul><h5>IaaS Platform Architecture and Deployment</h5><ul> <li>Explain Supervisor architecture</li><li>Discuss Supervisor requirements</li><li>List Supervisor use cases</li><li>Discuss the vSphere administrator workflow</li><li>List the components of the Supervisor</li><li>Discuss the types of Supervisor deployment</li><li>Discuss the requirements of Supervisor deployment</li><li>Describe Supervisor deployment during the VI Workload Domain creation</li></ul><h5>Deploying Modern Apps with IaaS</h5><ul> <li>Discuss self-service consumption with IaaS services in VCF 9</li><li>Discuss the features of the IaaS console</li><li>Describe how to get instance information from the console</li><li>Explain the YAML Spec for the VM service</li><li>Discuss VCF CLI commands</li></ul><h5>VCF Operations Overview</h5><ul> <li>List the key features of VCF Operations</li><li>Outline VCF Operations use cases</li><li>Navigate the VCF Operations console</li><li>Identify the components of a VCF Operations node</li><li>Describe the different roles of the node in a VCF Operations cluster</li></ul><h5>VCF Metrics, Views, and Reports</h5><ul> <li>Outline the role of metrics in VCF Operations</li><li>Outline the role of views in VCF Operations</li><li>List the steps to create a basic custom view and configure view settings</li><li>Outline the roles of reports in VCF Operations</li><li>List the steps to create a basic report and configure report settings</li></ul><h5>VCF Dashboards</h5><ul> <li>Describe the functions of dashboards</li><li>Create dashboards that use predefined and custom widgets</li><li>Manage dashboards by grouping and sharing with users</li><li>Explain the use cases of predefined dashboards and custom dashboards</li><li>List VCF Operations use cases</li></ul><h5>VCF Symptoms and Alerts</h5><ul> <li>Describe the purpose of using alerts</li><li>Identify the components of an alert definition</li><li>Create symptom definitions</li><li>View and manage triggered alerts in the VCF Operations console</li><li>Configure a custom alert using the Create Alert Definition workflow</li></ul><h5>VCF Health and Diagnostics</h5><ul> <li>Outline the role of VCF Health and Diagnostics</li><li>Describe the VCF Health and Diagnostic Findings features</li><li>Monitor the operational state of VCF instances</li><li>Explain Troubleshooting Workbench</li><li>Enable support teams with full context using Log Assist</li></ul><h5>VCF Logs, Storage, and Network Operations</h5><ul> <li>Describe the VCF Operations for logs overview</li><li>Describe the key benefits of the VCF Operations for logs</li><li>Describe the capabilities of VCF Operations for logs</li><li>Describe the VCF Storage Operations overview</li><li>Identify performance and health issues with the Storage clusters</li><li>Describe the benchmarking and optimization tool to detect issues for a new cluster</li><li>Describe the VCF Network Operations overview</li><li>Discuss the different widgets available in VCF Network Operations</li><li>Identify the performance and health issues with the VCF Network object</li></ul><h5>VCF Operations Policies</h5><ul> <li>Describe the purposes of policies in VCF Operations</li><li>Configure policies and other components</li></ul><h5>VCF Centralized Monitoring</h5><ul> <li>Describe the infrastructure services monitoring capabilities</li><li>Describe the application monitoring capabilities</li><li>Describe the different types of application metrics</li><li>Outline the requirements to enable service discovery and application monitoring</li><li>Describe the different types of service metrics</li><li>Use collected metrics to interpret the status of services</li></ul>By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: - Describe VCF Automation components and supporting architecture - Perform infrastructure management as a cloud provider - Deploy Regions and Organizations as the cloud provider - Configure networking at the cloud provider and organization levels - Configure and manage content libraries at the provider and organization levels - Manage access control in the organization using users and groups - Create and manage infrastructure blueprints and catalogs - Describe the use of the embedded orchestrator to create workflows - Deploy VM workloads using catalog deployment and Kubernetes-based IaaS deployments - List the key features of VCF Operations - Outline VCF Operations use cases - Create custom views and reports - Describe the functions of dashboards - Create custom dashboards - Create custom symptoms and alert definitions - Outline the role of VCF Health and Diagnostics - Explain Troubleshooting Workbench - Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations for logs overview - Identify performance and health issues with the Storage clusters using Storage Operations - Identify performance and health issues with the VCF Network objects - Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment - Configure service discovery and application monitoringBefore taking this course, students should take the following courses: - VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] (VSICM8) - VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0] (NSXICM4)System architects and system administrators- VCF Automation Overview and Architecture - Provider Infrastructure Management - Provider Identity Management - Regions - Organizations - Provider Networking - Organization Networking with VPC - Provider Content Library - Organization Management - Organization Content Management - IaaS Platform Architecture and Deployment - Deploying Modern Apps with IaaS - VCF Operations Overview - VCF Metrics, Views, and Reports - VCF Dashboards - VCF Symptoms and Alerts - VCF Health and Diagnostics - VCF Logs, Storage, and Network Operations - VCF Operations Policies - VCF Centralized MonitoringVCF Automation Overview and Architecture - Describe the features, benefits, and purposes of VCF Automation - Explain the architecture of VCF Automation 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 Provider Identity Management - Explain how to enable VCF SSO for the 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 Regions - Explain the basics of a Region - Identify the utilization of the Region - Discuss prerequisites and available options for creating a Region 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 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 Organization Networking with 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 Provider Content Library - Describe the Provider Content Library creation workflow - Explain publishing and subscribing to a Content Library 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 VCF Operations Policies - Describe the purposes of policies in VCF Operations - Configure policies and other components 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 services5 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