Detailed Course Outline
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
VMware Cloud Foundation Overview
- Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation solution
- Describe VMware Cloud Foundation architecture
- Identify VMware Cloud Foundation components
- Describe VMware Cloud Foundation topology
- Define VMware Cloud Foundation terminology
VMware Cloud Foundation Design
- Identify management domain sizing considerations
- Identify workload domain sizing considerations
- Detail design considerations for ESXi in management and VI workload domains
- Detail design considerations for VMware vCenter® in management and VI workload domains
- Detail design considerations for vSphere networking in management and VI workload domains
- Detail design considerations for storage in management and VI workload domains
- Recognize design choices for a consolidated design or standard design
- Detail design considerations for workload domains with shared VMware NSX® Manager™ instances
- Detail design considerations for workload domains with dedicated NSX Manager instances
- Describe the spine-and-leaf design
- Describe the addressing scheme for the underlay
- Recognize possible variations of the spine-and-leaf design
- Describe the multi-NIC design
- Describe VMware NSX® Edge™ node design and BGP peering with the physical network
- Describe cluster design and rack design
- Explain dynamic routing with BGP
- Recognize storage options for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Recognize the supported storage options for each domain
- Recognize the connectivity options for supplemental storage
- Explain why vSAN is the best option for VMware Cloud Foundation storage
- Recognize vSAN design considerations
- Identify sizing and performance considerations that impact the storage design
Day Zero Tasks
- Identify the requirements for deploying VMware Cloud Foundation
- Detail the VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up process
- Identify information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook
- Identify information required for the Deployment Parameter Workbook
- Describe how VMware Cloud Builder™ automates the deployment process
- Explain how the Deployment Parameter Workbook is imported into VMware Cloud Builder
- Recognize the configuration validation process performed by VMware Cloud Builder
- Detail the deployment of the management domain
- Recognize the options to image a host
- Identify the key capabilities of VIA
- Recognize how to use VIA for imaging the ESXi Nodes
VMware Cloud Foundation Multisite Federation
- Recognize the benefits of the federation feature in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Describe the federation feature and multisite management
- Recognize ways a federation helps manage resources and provide visibility in a multi-instance implementation of VMware Cloud Foundation
- Describe how to create, join, leave, and dismantle a federation
- Recognize the design considerations for a federation
Post Deployment Operations
- Understand VMware Cloud Foundation integration with VMware Single Sign-On
- Configure user access to VMware Cloud Foundation
- Describe the importance of user roles in vSphere
- Configure identity sources in vSphere to use with VMware Cloud Foundation
- Manage passwords in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Explain the importance of using VMware Cloud Foundation to manage passwords for vSphere components
- Detail the best practices for password management for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Retrieve and secure the password list
- Describe the process for rotating passwords not managed by VMware Cloud Foundation
Licensing
- Describe how to add license keys to the VMware Cloud Foundation inventory
- Describe how to view license keys in SDDC Manager
- Describe how to assign license keys
- Describe how to remove license keys
- Describe how to replace expiring licenses
VMware Cloud Foundation Networking with NSX-T
- Describe NSX Management plane and Control planes
- Explain virtual IP addressing
- Describe logical switching
- Detail NSX Edge functions
- Define application virtual networks
- Describe management domain rack options
- List NSX Edge cluster requirements for vSphere with Tanzu
- Discuss NSX Edge cluster placement considerations
- Describe VMware NSX-T™ Data Center deployment in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Explain how logical routing works in NSX-T Data Center
- Identify NSX Edge functions
- Describe data plane preparation for NSX-T Data Center Edge nodes in a workload domain
- Recognize Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway topologies
- Recognize features of VMware NSX® distributed firewalls
- Describe the benefits of NSX Federation in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Identify NSX Federation use cases
- Explain NSX Federation Components and Architecture
- Discuss NSX Federation configuration basics
Managing Workload Domains
- Define workload domains
- List the types of workload domains
- State scale limits for workload domains
- Identify use cases for multiple clusters in a workload domain
- List workload domain prerequisites
- Explain how to create a workload domain
- Describe how to scale a workload domain
- Explain how to delete a workload domain
- Describe host decommissioning
vSphere Tanzu in VMware Could Foundation
- Discuss the vSphere with Tanzu solution
- Define the role of Spherelet
- Describe the supervisor cluster control plane
- Define vSphere with Tanzu namespaces
- Describe the role of NSX-T networking components
- Discuss vSphere with Tanzu networking topology
- Describe VMware Container Networking with Antrea
- Describe control plane VM management networking requirements
- Plan appropriate IP address CIDR ranges for pod, ingress, and egress networking
- Describe prerequisites for vSphere with Tanzu cluster compatibility
- Deploy vSphere with Kubernetes
- Create a vSphere namespace
- Configure limits and permissions for a vSphere namespace
- Enabling Harbor Image Registry
VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Management
- Identify vSAN architecture and components
- Describe vSAN requirements for the management and workload domains
- Define deduplication and compression
- Discuss how to scale vSAN clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Explain how storage policies work with VMware Cloud Foundation vSAN clusters
- Explain storage policy failure tolerance rules
- Identify a VM storage policy compliance status
- Relate storage policies to Kubernetes storage classes
- Describe persistent volumes
- Monitor Cloud Native Storage in VMware vSphere® Client™
Availability and Business Continuity
- Identify steps in the SDDC Manager backup and restore process
- Recognize the importance of external service availability
- Describe native vSphere availability options
- Identify steps in the NSX backup and restore process
- Identify stretched cluster use cases
- Identify stretched cluster components
- Recognize stretched cluster requirements in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Prepare and deploy a vSAN stretched cluster using APIs
VMware Cloud Foundation Certificate Management
- Describe public key infrastructure (PKI)
- Explain the purpose of certificate signing requests (CSRs)
- List the available CA options in SDDC Manager
- Describe how to view certificates
- Explain how to generate a CSR
- Describe how to replace and install certificates for VMware Cloud Foundation components
- List the available CA options in SDDC Manager
- Explain how to configure the Microsoft CA server
- Describe how to install certificates issued by the Microsoft CA server
- Explain how to add OpenSSL CA in SDDC Manager
- Describe how to install certificates issued by OpenSSL CA
- Explain how to install certificates issued by third-party CAs
VMware Cloud Foundation Life Cycle Management
- Describe Lifecycle Management
- List products that you can upgrade using VMware Cloud Foundation Lifecycle Management
- Describe the available options for online and offline bundle download using VMware Cloud Foundation Lifecycle Management
- Describe the role of VMware vSphere® Lifecycle Manager™ in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager Baseline-based and Image-based Clusters
- Detail how and when to use cluster images
- Explain how to import a cluster image
- Explain how to extract a cluster image
- Describe the importance of hardware support managers
- Describe the upgrade prerequisites
- Outline the upgrade precheck process
- Describe the order of upgrade for VMware Cloud Foundation components
- Explain how to upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation software and components
VMware Cloud Foundation Troubleshooting
- Explain how to perform checks and create log bundles with the SoS tool
- List VMware Cloud Foundation services
- Identify VMware Cloud Foundation log files
- Describe the use of reference token IDs to troubleshoot failed workflows