Course Overview
This five-day course provides the knowledge and skills to build, manage, and secure a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Private Cloud. You will explore VCF architecture, licensing models, and Private Cloud components at both the fleet and instance levels. The course covers end-to-end fleet deployment using the VCF Installer, post-deployment tasks including VCF Operations component setup, and fleet management through Single Sign-On configuration, VCF Identity Broker, role-based access control, and credential management. You will also deploy and manage workload domains, configure VMware NSX networking with Virtual Private Cloud constructs and Transit Gateway configurations, and manage vSAN storage using policies, fault domains, and VCF Operations monitoring tools.
The course also covers VCF certificate management using SDDC Manager with Microsoft CA, OpenSSL CA, and third-party certificate authorities. Students will perform lifecycle management operations including patching and upgrading VCF management and fleet components, and executing backup and restore procedures across the VCF fleet. In the VCF Security section, you will define security, compliance, and resilience in VCF, assess compliance posture using Security Posture Management, monitor security health through the Security Operations Dashboard, and review audit trail events. The course concludes with VCF upgrade paths to version 9.1, covering supported upgrade scenarios from vSphere 8.0 and VCF 5.2 environments.
Who should attend
System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, Architects, and Support Personnel
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
- Implement Learning Path Stage-1 Training
- Introduction to VCF
- VMware Cloud Foundation: Compute Fundamentals
- VMware Cloud Foundation: Storage Fundamentals
- VMware Cloud Foundation: Network Fundamentals
- Working experience and knowledge of VMware vSphere®, VMware NSX®, and vSAN environments
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe VMware Cloud Foundation architecture and Private Cloud components at the fleet and instance levels
- Deploy and configure a VCF Private Cloud using the VCF Installer, including networking, storage, and post-deployment tasks
- Manage VCF Fleet operations including SSO, RBAC, identity federation, workload domains, NSX networking, and vSAN storage
- Manage VCF lifecycle using the software depot, patch and upgrade VCF components, and implement backup and restore procedures
- Apply VCF security using Security Posture Management, the Security Operations Dashboard, certificate management, and supported upgrade paths to VCF 9.1
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- VCF Private Cloud: Overview and Architecture
- VCF Private Cloud Deployment
- VCF Post-Deployment Tasks
- VCF Fleet Management
- VCF Workload Domain
- VCF Networking
- VCF Storage Management
- VCF Certificate Management
- VCF Lifecycle Management
- VCF Security
- VCF Upgrade Paths
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