This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities
to achieve competence in deploying, managing, operating and securing private
cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF). You will learn about the
architecture of VCF, storage and network management, licensing, and
certificates. In addition to workload domains, availability, and life cycle
management, the course also covers upgrade
scenarios.
Course Objectives
By the end of
the course, you should be able to meet the following
objectives:
- Define VCF and its key features
- Describe the use
cases of VCF
- Explain the architecture of the VCF private
cloud
- Recognize the components of the VCF private cloud
- Outline
the sequence for deploying the VCF private cloud
- Describe the
deployment configuration of VCF instance core components
- Explain the
deployment configuration of VCF fleet management components
- Deploy
VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations for networks, VMware Cloud
Foundation® Operations for logs, and VMware Cloud Foundation® Identity
Broker
- Describe the VCF licensing model
- Describe the single
sign-on architecture in VCF
- Identify the steps to configure single
sign-on in VCF
- Manage users and user groups in VCF
- Outline the
steps to manage passwords in VCF
- Outline the steps to create a workload
domain
- Configure VMware® vCenter® linked groups
- Import
vCenter as a workload domain using VCF Operations
- Describe the process
for configuring Fibre Channel storage
- Identify the components of an
iSCSI storage system
- Outline the process of provisioning NFS storage to
VMware® ESX hosts
- Identify and use built-in tools to validate a
successful VMware® vSAN deployment
- Compare the various tools used
to monitor a vSAN cluster
- Explain the types of vSAN reports available
in VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations
- Explain Virtual Private
Cloud concepts and constructs
- Differentiate between Centralized and
Distributed Network Connectivity
- Identify the steps to configure
virtual private cloud
- Manage certificates in VCF
- Explain the
life cycle management of VCF components
- Identify the supported upgrade
paths to VCF 9.0
- Define security, compliance and resilience in
VCF
- Describe the integrated security features across all layers in
VCF
- Discuss and perform VCF upgrade
paths
Target Audience
- System
Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, Architects, and Support
Personnel
Prerequisites
This
course has the following prerequisites:
- Implement Learning Path
Stage-1 Training
- Working experience and knowledge of VMware
vSphere®, VMware NSX®, and vSAN environments
