Course Overview
This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, managing, and operating VMware® Cloud Foundation™. You will learn about the architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation, storage and network management, licensing, and certificates. In addition to workload domains, availability, life cycle management, and troubleshooting, the course also covers VMware® Aria Suite™ integration and VMware® Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA architecture and components.
Who should attend
System architects and system administrators.
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge and experience:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSAN: Install, Configure, Manage
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Plan a deployment for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Describe VMware Cloud Foundation components and supporting architecture
- Explain the VMware Cloud Foundation licensing model
- Perform day 0 tasks
- Perform VMware Cloud Foundation platform onboarding
- Manage user credentials in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Configure VMware NSX® networking in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Deploy and manage workload domains
- Understand and implement storage solutions and related policies
- Perform maintenance tasks for the VMware Cloud Foundation platform
- Manage certificates for VMware Cloud Foundation and connected technologies
- Manage the life cycle for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Deploy and manage VMware Aria Suite on VMware Cloud Foundation
- Understand the Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA architecture and components
- Engage with VMware Cloud Foundation Technical Support services
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- VMware Cloud Foundation Overview
- Day Zero Tasks
- Post-Deployment Operations
- VMware Cloud Foundation Networking with NSX
- Managing Workload Domains
- VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Management
- Availability and Business Continuity
- VMware Cloud Foundation Certificate Management
- VMware Cloud Foundation Life Cycle Management
- VMware Aria Suite on VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA
- VMware Cloud Foundation Troubleshooting