Course Overview
TOPThis 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.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 01/21/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 04/14/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPUse 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
- By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Outline
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Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Explain VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up
- troubleshooting methodologies
- Discuss the VMware Cloud Foundation bring-up
- validation precheck process
- Use log files to identify VMware Cloud Foundation
- bring-up failures
- Understand common VMware Cloud Foundation
- bring-up validation precheck errors
- Use logs to perform workload domain
- troubleshooting
- Review logs for problem scenarios
- Review VMware Cloud Foundation SDDC Manager
- capabilities and services
- Discuss SDDC Manager troubleshooting options
- Use the SoS utility
- Apply troubleshooting methodologies to identify
- potential failed workflows within SDDC Manage
- Maintain a VMware NSX Manager cluster
- Understand NSX compute host connectivity and troubleshoot issues
- Use CLI tools to troubleshoot NSX compute host connectivity
- Implement NSX routing and switching in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Identify NSX troubleshooting tools and methodologies
- Discuss NSX Edge cluster troubleshooting options
- Apply troubleshooting methodologies to identify potential NSX routing and switching issues in VMware Cloud Foundation
- Manage certificates for VMware Cloud Foundation components
- Add a certificate authority in SDDC Manager
- Replace certificates with SDDC Manager
- Apply troubleshooting methodologies to identify
- potential certificate errors
- Explain password rotation in SDDC Manager
- Summarize password management best practices
- Perform password rotation
- Use API calls and CLI tools to manage passwords
- Identify common password management problems
- Describe life cycle management architecture and
- Upgrade VMware Aria Suite products
- Apply troubleshooting methodologies to identify
- potential issues with a VMware Cloud Foundation
- upgrade
- terminology
- Discuss upgrade bundle management in SDDC
- Manager
- Automate VMware Cloud Foundation upgrades
- List component upgrade prerequisites
- Upgrade SDDC Manager
- Upgrade vSphere elements
- Upgrade NSX
- Explain the use cases for the VMware Cloud Foundation API
- List the supported API commands
- Discuss token-based authentication types
- Use API tools
- Apply troubleshooting methodologies to VMware Cloud Foundation API calls
Prerequisites
TOPOperational capabilities with VMware vSphere processes and architecture
- Operational capabilities with NSX
- Operational knowledge of VMware vSAN
- Minimum one year experience with VMware Cloud Foundation
- 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:
Who Should Attend
TOPVMware customers, consultants, architects, and partners
- Internal personal services organization (PSO) and support teams
