Detailed Course Outline
1. Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics.
- Course objectives and overview of VCF 9.1
2. VCF Automation Overview
- Describe the common terms in a VCF deployment
- Describe fleet-wide identity providers in VCF Operations
- Explain the features and benefits of VCF Automation
- Describe the building blocks and architecture of VCF Automation
- Explain VCF Management Service Platform
3. Provider Infrastructure Management
- Describe the provider management portal
- Discover infrastructure resources and validate vCenter, VCF Instance, NSX Manager, and Edge clusters
- Explain infrastructure policies in VCF Automation
4. Provider Identity Management
- Explain how to enable and configure VCF Single Sign-On for the Automation Appliance
- Describe identity providers used in VCF Automation (OpenID, LDAP, SAML)
- Explain predefined roles, rights bundles, and access control
- Describe service accounts and API tokens
5. VCF Automation Regions
- Define a region and list prerequisites for creating a region
- Explain the relationship between a region, Supervisor, and NSX Manager
- Describe VM Classes, reserved VM Classes, and storage classes
- Describe the features and capabilities of the provider content library
6. VCF Automation Organizations
- Describe the different organizations offered in VCF Automation
- Explain the region quota enhancements in VCF 9.1 over VCF 9.0
- Design Multi-Supervisor Region (MSRQ) environments, a new capability in VCF 9.1
- Explain auto-expansion and auto-shrinkage features of content libraries in MSRQ
- Describe tenant content library placement changes introduced in VCF 9.1
- Create an All Apps Organization
7. VCF Automation Networking
- Explain VCF Automation 9.1 Network Architecture and UI enhancements
- Describe Provider Networking, External IP Blocks, and shared Subnets
- Describe the integration of Infoblox IPAM introduced in VCF Automation 9.1
- Explain Regional Networking
- Configure Organization Networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, VLAN Extended Subnet)
- Configure Workload Networking and VM Load Balancer Service
8. Organization Management
- Explain creating and managing projects, vSphere namespaces, and namespace classes
- Explain Namespace Self-Service and binding workflows
- Discuss namespace update workflows
- Apply infrastructure policies in VCF Automation
9. Organization Content Management
- Identify and manage content available in Content Hub
- Create and deploy VCF Automation Blueprints using YAML
- Explain the Supervisor Namespace capture feature
- Configure and use Custom Forms
- Describe the use of the Embedded Orchestrator and Workflows
10. Deploy Modern Apps
- Discuss Cloud services deployed through vSphere Supervisor
- Explain self-service consumption with IaaS services in VCF 9.1
- Discuss direct mode versus linked mode in IaaS
- Discuss the end-to-end workflow for deploying Virtual Machine instances
- Define container service in VCF Automation
11. VCF Operations Overview
- List the key features and use cases of VCF Operations
- Identify the components of a VCF Operations node and cluster
- Discuss Availability Zones
- Perform basic VCF Operations console navigation
12. VCF Metrics, Views and Reports
- Outline the role of metrics and views in VCF Operations
- Create a basic custom view and configure view settings
- Create a basic report and configure report settings
13. Dashboards
- Describe the functions of dashboards
- Create dashboards using predefined and custom widgets
- Manage dashboards by grouping and sharing with users
14. VCF Operations Policies
- Describe the purposes of policies in VCF Operations
- Configure policies and other components
15. Symptoms and Alerts
- Describe the purpose of using alerts and identify components of an alert definition
- Create static symptom definitions and configure threshold types
- Configure a custom alert using the Create Alert Definition workflow
16. VCF Health, Findings, and Workbench
- Outline the role of VCF Health and Diagnostics
- Monitor the operational state of VCF Instances
- Describe the capabilities of Troubleshooting Workbench
- Enable support teams with full context using Log Assist
17. VCF Logs and Storage
- Describe the log management capabilities in VCF Operations
- Identify performance and health issues with Storage clusters
18. Workload Monitoring
- Describe infrastructure services and application monitoring capabilities
- Enable service discovery for a VCF deployment
- Describe VKS cluster monitoring capabilities introduced in VCF Operations 9.1
- Configure vCenter and VCF Operations to enable VKS enhanced observability