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

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

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

Lab Outline

• Lab 1 Case Study
• Lab 2 Exploring VMware Cloud Foundation Automation Portals
• Lab 3 Discovering VMware Cloud Foundation Entities
• Lab 4 Configuring an Identity Provider
• Lab 5 Creating a Custom Role
• Lab 6 Creating a Region
• Lab 7 Setting Up the PCO Organization
• Lab 8 Creating an Organization
• Lab 9 Configuring Provider Networking
• Lab 10 Creating a VPC
• Lab 11 Creating a Provider Content Library
• Lab 12 Creating a Project
• Lab 13 Managing Users and Roles
• Lab 14 Configuring VCF Automation Policies
• Lab 15 Creating a Local Content Library as an Organization Administrator
• Lab 16 Creating and Deploying a Blueprint
• Lab 17 Managing Catalogs
• Lab 18 Using an Orchestrator Workflow
• Lab 19 Deploying a VMUsing the Catalog Option
• Lab 20 Deploying a VM Using the IaaS Console
• Lab 21 Navigating the VCF Operations UI
• Lab 22 Creating a Custom View89
• Lab 23 Creating Custom Report Templates
• Lab 24 Creating Dashboards and Configuring Widgets
• Lab 25 Creating Custom Policies
• Lab 26 Creating Custom Symptoms
• Lab 27 Creating Custom Alert Definitions
• Lab 28 Monitoring VCFHealth andDiagnostics
• Lab 29 VCF OperationsforLogs Appliance
• Lab 30 Monitoring Storage Operations
• Lab 31 Configuring Service Discovery
• Lab 32 Configuring ApplicationMonitoring