Course Overview
TOPThis five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in automating and operating a VCF private cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation Automation and VMware Cloud Foundation Operations. You will learn about the architecture of VCF Automation, provider and organization management, provider and organization networking, and content library management. The course covers blueprints, catalogs, Supervisor management, and deploying workloads using the Catalog and IaaS portals.
You will learn about VCF Operations overview, architecture, and navigating the user interface. You will explore customizing alerts, views, reports, dashboards, and policies. This course also explains VCF logs, storage, and network operations, health and diagnostics, service discovery, and application monitoring concepts.
You will learn about VCF Operations overview, architecture, and navigating the user interface. You will explore customizing alerts, views, reports, dashboards, and policies. This course also explains VCF logs, storage, and network operations, health and diagnostics, service discovery, and application monitoring concepts.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 11/24/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 12/15/25 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 01/19/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 02/16/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 03/16/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 04/13/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 05/11/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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| 06/08/26 - TDV - Virtual-Instructor Led - Virtual-Instructor Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOPDescribe VCF Automation components and supporting architecture
- List the key features of VCF Operations
- Outline VCF Operations use cases
- Create custom views and reports
- Describe the functions of dashboards
- Create custom dashboards
- Create custom symptoms and alert definitions
- Outline the role of VCF Health and Diagnostics
- Explain Troubleshooting Workbench
- Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation Operations for logs overview
- Identify performance and health issues with the Storage clusters using Storage Operations
- Perform infrastructure management as a cloud provider
- Identify performance and health issues with the VCF Network objects
- Create policies to meet the operational needs of your environment
- Configure service discovery and application monitoring
- Deploy Regions and Organizations as the cloud provider
- Configure networking at the cloud provider and organization levels
- Configure and manage content libraries at the provider and organization levels
- Manage access control in the organization using users and groups
- Create and manage infrastructure blueprints and catalogs
- Describe the use of the embedded orchestrator to create workflows
- Deploy VM workloads using catalog deployment and Kubernetes-based IaaS deployments
- By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Outline
TOPIdentify and manage the different content available in Content Hub
- Describe orchestrator workflows
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Describe the purposes of policies in VCF Operations
- Configure policies and other components
- Describe the features, benefits, and purposes of VCF Automation
- Explain the architecture of VCF Automation
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Explain the basics of a Region
- Identify the utilization of the Region
- Discuss prerequisites and available options for creating a Region
- 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
- Discuss prerequisites for creating the provider network
- Discuss the mapping of resources between VCF Automation, NSX, and vCenter
- 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 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
- Describe the Provider Content Library creation workflow
- Explain publishing and subscribing to a Content Library
- 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
Prerequisites
TOPVMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage
- Before taking this course, students should take the following courses:
Who Should Attend
TOPSystem architects and system administrators.
