Kurskode: VMVCFT

varighet: 3 Dag(er)

Sted: Virtual, Instructor Led Training
Katergori: VMware

Course Overview

This three-day training course provides the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in troubleshooting problems in VMware Cloud Foundation™ infrastructure. In this course you are exposed to tools and methodologies that help you support and troubleshoot your VMware Cloud Foundation environment. In addition, various scenarios are presented to you in hands-on student labs and simulations where you will learn to identify, analyze, and solve problems systematically in VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure.

Product Alignment

- VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0

- VMware vSphere 8.0

- VMware NSX 4.0

1 Course Introduction

  • • Introductions and course logistics
  • • Course objectives

2 Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Bring-up

  • • Learn VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up troubleshooting methodologies
  • • Understand VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up validation pre-check process
  • • Use log files to identify VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up failures
  • • Understand Common VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up validation pre-check errors
  • • 3 Workload Domain Troubleshooting
  • • Use logs to perform workload domain troubleshooting
  • • Review logs for problem scenarios
  • • Review VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager capabilities and services
  • • SDDC Manager troubleshooting options
  • • Use the Supportability and Serviceability (SoS) utility tool
  • • Apply troubleshooting methodology to identify potential failed workflows with SDDC Manager

4 VMware Cloud Foundation Networking

  • • Learn the components of VMware NSX architecture
  • • Maintain a VMware NSX Manager cluster
  • • Understand routing and switching with VMware NSX
  • • Summarize VMware Cloud Foundation networking requirements
  • • Describe the role of VMware NSX in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • • Deploy VMware NSX in VMware Cloud Foundation domains
  • • Implement VMware NSX routing and switching in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • • Understand VMware NSX troubleshooting tools and methodologies
  • • Apply troubleshooting methodology to identify potential VMware NSX routing and switching issues in VMware Cloud Foundation

5 VMware Cloud Foundation Certificates

  • • Review cryptography fundamentals
  • • Explain the VMware Certificate Authority (VMCA) architecture
  • • Recall public key infrastructure (PKI) components
  • • Create a certificate signing request (CSR)
  • • Manage certificates for VMware Cloud Foundation components
  • • Add a certificate authority (CA) in SDDC Manager
  • • Replace certificates with SDDC Manager
  • • Apply troubleshooting methodology to identify potential certificate errors

6 Troubleshooting Password Management

  • • Understand password rotation in SDDC Manager
  • • Summarize password management best practices
  • • Perform password rotation
  • • Use API calls and command-line tools to manage passwords
  • • Identify common password management problems

7 VMware Cloud Foundation Lifecycle Management

  • • Automate VMware Cloud Foundation upgrades
  • • Understand component upgrade prerequisites
  • • Upgrade SDDC Manager
  • • Upgrade VMware vSphere elements
  • • Upgrade VMware NSX
  • • Upgrade VMware Aria™ Suite products
  • • Apply troubleshooting methodology to identify potential issues with a VMware Cloud Foundation upgrade

8 VMware Cloud Foundation API

  • • Explain the use cases for the VMware Cloud Foundation API
  • • List the supported VMware Cloud Foundation API calls
  • • Understand Token-based authentication types
  • • Use API tools
  • • Apply troubleshooting methodology VMware Cloud Foundation API calls

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • • Use logs to identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to VMware Cloud Builder™ appliance and services
  • • Use the Supportability and Serviceability (SoS) Utility tool to identify and fix issues VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure
  • • Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to host commissioning in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • • Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to Workload domain creation in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • • Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to NSX in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • • Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to certificates in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • • Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to passwords in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • • Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to Life Cycle Management (LCM) in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • • Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot problems related to using APIs in VMware Cloud Foundation Target

This course requires completion of the following course:

- VMware Cloud Foundation: Deploy, Configure, Manage [V5.0]


The course material presumes that you can perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:

- Operational capabilities with VMware vSphere® processes and architecture

- Operational capabilities with VMware NSX®

- Operational knowledge of VMware vSAN™

Minimum one year experience with VMware Cloud Foundation

Experienced System Administrators, System Engineers, System Integrators

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