VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate (VMCFAO)

1. VCF Automation Overview and Architecture

• • Describe the features, benefits, and purposes of VCF Automation
• • Explain the architecture of VCF Automation

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

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

4. Regions

• • Explain the basics of a Region
• • Identify the utilization of the Region
• • Discuss prerequisites and available options for creating a Region

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

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

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

8. Provider Content Library

• • Describe the Provider Content Library creation workflow
• • Explain publishing and subscribing to a Content Library

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

10. Organization Content Management

• • Identify and manage the different content available in Content Hub
• • Differentiate between catalog self-service versus IaaS self-service
• • Publish content to Catalog for end-user consumption
• • Deploy and modify Catalog items
• • Configure and use custom forms
• • Explain the role of YAML in configuring and managing infrastructure as code
• • Publish Content to Catalog for End User Consumption
• • Discuss the use of the embedded orchestrator
• • Discuss the use cases of an external orchestrator
• • Describe orchestrator workflows

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19.VCF Operations Policies

• • Describe the purposes of policies in VCF Operations
• • Configure policies and other components

20.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