VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0] (VCFAO9)

About the course

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.

Course Objectives

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

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should take the following courses:

● VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

● VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage

Who Should Attend

System architects and system administrators