VMware Cloud Foundation: Solution Architecture and Design (v9.1)

System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, Architects, and Support Personnel

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Recognize key features and enhancements introduced in VCF 9.1.
• Develop skills to implement VCF environments.
• Operate the VCF platform and evaluate critical deployment strategies.
• Explain compute enhancements such as memory tiering, CPU optimization, and vCenter UI usability improvements.
• Outline new storage capabilities including vSAN ESA Auto-RAID and stretched cluster enhancements.
• Understand networking updates focused on VPC consumption from vCenter and enhancements in transit gateway functionality.
• Deploy workload domains, manage VCF Management services, and lifecycle enhancements.
• Plan environment updates using VCF upgrade pathways.
• Identify VCF Automation improvements for scalability, multi-supervisor regions, and blueprints.
• Describe VKS enhancements related to Supervisor deployment topologies and network customization.
• Leverage VCF Operations for VCF Health, fleet management, real-time metrics, and Log management.

1. Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics.
• Course objectives.

2. VCF Installer Enhancements

• Describe VCF components.
• Outline VCF deployment and imports.
• Explain custom and dual-stack networks.
• Identify management services and credentials.

3. VCF Operations Navigation and Licensing

• List key VCF Operations features.
• Perform VCF 9.1 console navigation.
• Compare VCF 9.0 and VCF 9.1 licensing.
• Evaluate connected and air-gapped options.

4. VCF Compute

• Identify key features of vCenter Enhancements.
• List the ESX Enhancements.
• Explain vSphere Resource Enhancements.
• Describe the key  vSphere Network Enhancements.
• Recognize virtual machines enhancements
• Identify vSphere Certificate Improvements.
• List the latest API Enhancements

5. VCF Storage

• Outline vSAN ESA Auto-RAID features
• Explain vSAN stretched cluster updates
• Identify disaggregated vSAN storage capabilities
• Describe vSAN protection and recovery
• Explain iSCSI and NFS enhancements

6. VCF Networking

• Explain VPC consumption from vCenter
• Describe Distributed Transit Gateway enhancements
• Understand Centralized Transit Gateway connectivity
• Evaluate Centralized Transit Gateway VPNs

7. VCF Fleet and Lifecycle Enhancements

• List workload domain deployment steps.
• Explain out-of-band validation enhancements.
• Describe VCF management service components.
• Explain service high availability mechanisms.
• Outline identity and access enhancements.
• View cluster-level configuration drifts.

8. VCF Upgrade Pathways

• Review VCF 9.1 upgrade pathways
• Plan vSphere to VCF upgrades
• Upgrade existing VCF platform environments
• Explain VVF to VCF upgrades

9. VCF Automation

• Describe VCF Automation scalability enhancements
• Describe organization management enhancements
• Configure multi-supervisor region quota settings
• Explain networking and blueprint enhancements
• Manage container and VKS services
• Outline Cloud Director migration process

10. VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

• Explain vSphere Supervisor enhanced architecture with multi-cluster zones
• Explain VM Service enhancements
• Outline the steps for adding multiple networks on VKS cluster
• Explain VKS cluster node customization using AppArmor and TuneD profiles
• Explain how to build RHEL-9 Vkr images using VCF CLI

11.   VCF Operations

• Explain the installer enhancements
• Explain the UI enhancements
• Understand day-two operations and management
• Outline VCF health and findings enhancements
• Outline Real-Time metrics and troubleshooting workbench enhancements
• Describe Log Management architecture
• Outline capacity, cost, and price enhancements
• Explain Automated VKS Cluster Monitoring

Working experience and knowledge of VCF, VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, and vSAN environments

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