Course Information
Course Name
VCFAO[V9.0]: VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0]
Exam code
2V0-17.25
Duration
5 Days
Certification
VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (VCP-VCF Admin)
Overview
This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in automating and operating a VCF private cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation® Automation and VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations. You will learn about the architecture of VCF Automation, provider and organization management, provider and organization networking, and content library management. The course covers blueprints, catalogs, Supervisor management, and deploying workloads using the Catalog and IaaS portals.You will learn about VCF Operations overview, architecture, and navigating the user interface. You will explore customizing alerts, views, reports, dashboards, and policies. This course also explains VCF logs, storage, and network operations, health and diagnostics, service discovery, and application monitoring concepts.
Audience Profile
System architects
System administrators
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should take the following courses:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage
At Course Completion
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 monitoring
Course Outline
Module 1: VCF Automation Overview and Architecture
Describe the features, benefits, and purposes of VCF Automation
Explain the architecture of VCF Automation
Module 2: 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
Module 3: 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
Module 4: Regions
Explain the basics of a Region
Identify the utilization of the Region
Discuss prerequisites and available options for creating a Region
Module 5: 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
Module 6: 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
Module 7: 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
Module 8: Provider Content Library
Describe the Provider Content Library creation workflow
Explain publishing and subscribing to a Content Library
Module 9: 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
Module 10: Organization Content 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
Module 11: 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
Module 12: 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
Module 13: 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
Module 14: 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
Module 15: 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
Module 16: 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
Module 17: 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
Module 18: 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
Module 19: VCF Operations Policies
Describe the purposes of policies in VCF Operations
Configure policies and other components
Module 19: 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 services
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