VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.1 Training in Belgium

What Can You Achieve with This Training?

• Build the skills to automate, operate, and administer VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 Private Cloud environments.

• Use VCF Automation to configure cloud provider infrastructure, regions, organizations, networking resources, and access permissions.

• Standardize virtual machine and application provisioning through blueprints, catalogs, and content libraries.

• Monitor infrastructure performance and health using VCF Operations metrics, alerts, reports, dashboards, and policies.

• Improve operational visibility through log analysis, troubleshooting, service discovery, and application monitoring.

The VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.1] Training is a comprehensive five-day technical course focused on the automation and operational management of VMware Cloud Foundation Private Cloud infrastructure.

The course develops the knowledge and practical capabilities required to configure, automate, administer, and monitor private cloud environments using VMware Cloud Foundation Automation and VCF Operations.

The automation modules examine VCF Automation architecture, provider and organization administration, identity management, networking, content libraries, blueprints, and catalogs. Participants also explore Supervisor management, infrastructure resource provisioning, and workload deployment.

The operations modules focus on the monitoring and management features of VCF Operations. Topics include alerts, metrics, views, reports, dashboards, policies, and log management, enabling participants to assess infrastructure performance and operational conditions.

The programme also addresses storage health, diagnostics, service discovery, application monitoring, and VKS cluster observability to support effective infrastructure operations.

Designed for technical professionals responsible for VMware Cloud Foundation environments, this course helps develop the skills needed to streamline automation, simplify resource administration, and improve operational visibility.

Exams and Certification

This course helps participants prepare for the VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator certification exam.

The certification exam is offered separately from the training course.

Participants are expected to have completed the following course:

• VMware Cloud Foundation: Build, Manage and Secure [v9.1]

This course is intended for:

• System Administrators

• Solution Engineers

• Technical Consultants

• Infrastructure and Solution Architects

• Technical Support Personnel

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the VCF Automation architecture and explain the functions of its primary components.

• Discover, validate, and administer infrastructure resources as a cloud provider.

• Create and manage VCF Automation regions and organizations.

• Configure networking at both provider and organization levels using VCF Automation 9.1 Network Architecture.

• Administer content libraries at provider and organization levels, including the MSRQ enhancements introduced in VCF 9.1.

• Manage organizational access control and permissions through users, groups, and roles.

• Create and maintain YAML-based infrastructure blueprints and catalogs for resource provisioning.

• Explain workload and virtual machine deployment workflows using vSphere Namespace, Supervisor, and IaaS services.

• Create and manage custom metric views, reports, and dashboards in VCF Operations.

• Configure policies, symptoms, and alerts to meet infrastructure monitoring requirements.

• Use VCF Health, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Workbench to investigate operational issues.

• Evaluate workload conditions through log management, storage health monitoring, service discovery, and application monitoring.

• Explain the configuration and use of VKS cluster monitoring and enhanced observability capabilities.

1. Course Introduction

• Introducing the course structure and logistical information

• Reviewing the learning objectives and providing an overview of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

2. VCF Automation Overview

• Explaining commonly used terminology within VCF deployments

• Examining fleet-wide identity providers in VCF Operations

• Reviewing the main features and advantages of VCF Automation

• Exploring the architecture and foundational components of VCF Automation

• Introducing the VCF Management Service Platform

3. Provider Infrastructure Management

• Exploring the Provider Management Portal and its administrative capabilities

• Discovering infrastructure resources and validating vCenter, VCF Instance, NSX Manager, and Edge clusters

• Examining infrastructure policies within VCF Automation

4. Provider Identity Management

• Enabling and configuring VCF Single Sign-On for the Automation Appliance

• Reviewing supported identity providers, including OpenID, LDAP, and SAML

• Understanding predefined roles, rights bundles, and access control mechanisms

• Managing service accounts and API tokens

5. VCF Automation Regions

• Defining a region and identifying the prerequisites for region creation

• Understanding the relationship between a region, Supervisor, and NSX Manager

• Examining VM Classes, reserved VM Classes, and storage classes

• Reviewing the features and capabilities of the provider content library

6. VCF Automation Organizations

• Identifying the different organization types available in VCF Automation

• Reviewing region quota enhancements introduced in VCF 9.1 compared with VCF 9.0

• Designing Multi-Supervisor Region (MSRQ) environments

• Exploring automatic expansion and shrinkage of content libraries within MSRQ

• Understanding changes to tenant content library placement introduced in VCF 9.1

• Creating an All Apps Organization

7. VCF Automation Networking

• Exploring VCF Automation 9.1 Network Architecture and user interface improvements

• Understanding Provider Networking, External IP Blocks, and shared Subnets

• Reviewing the Infoblox IPAM integration introduced in VCF Automation 9.1

• Examining Regional Networking

• Configuring organization networking, including VPC, Transit Gateway, and VLAN Extended Subnet

• Configuring Workload Networking and VM Load Balancer Service

8. Organization Management

• Creating and administering projects, vSphere namespaces, and namespace classes

• Exploring Namespace Self-Service and binding workflows

• Reviewing namespace update procedures

• Applying VCF Automation infrastructure policies to organizational resources

9. Organization Content Management

• Identifying and managing resources available through Content Hub

• Creating and deploying VCF Automation Blueprints using YAML

• Exploring the Supervisor Namespace Capture feature

• Configuring and working with Custom Forms

• Reviewing Embedded Orchestrator capabilities and workflows

10. Deploy Modern Apps

• Examining cloud services deployed through vSphere Supervisor

• Understanding self-service infrastructure consumption using IaaS services in VCF 9.1

• Comparing Direct Mode and Linked Mode within IaaS

• Reviewing the complete workflow for deploying Virtual Machine instances

• Defining a Container Service in VCF Automation

11. VCF Operations Overview

• Reviewing the primary capabilities and use cases of VCF Operations

• Understanding the components of a VCF Operations node and cluster

• Exploring Availability Zones

• Learning basic navigation within the VCF Operations console

12. VCF Metrics, Views, and Reports

• Understanding the role of metrics and views in VCF Operations

• Creating a basic custom view and adjusting its configuration settings

• Creating a basic report and configuring reporting options

13. Dashboards

• Exploring the functions and purposes of dashboards

• Building dashboards with predefined and custom widgets

• Organizing dashboards into groups and sharing them with users

14. VCF Operations Policies

• Explaining the purpose of VCF Operations policies

• Configuring policies and associated components

15. Symptoms and Alerts

• Understanding the purpose of alerts and the elements of an alert definition

• Creating static symptom definitions and configuring threshold types

• Building custom alerts through the Create Alert Definition workflow

16. VCF Health, Findings, and Workbench

• Understanding the functions of VCF Health and Diagnostics

• Monitoring the operational status of VCF Instances

• Exploring the troubleshooting capabilities of Troubleshooting Workbench

• Using Log Assist to provide support teams with detailed operational context

17. VCF Logs and Storage

• Examining the log management capabilities available in VCF Operations

• Identifying performance and health issues affecting storage clusters

18. Workload Monitoring

• Exploring infrastructure service and application monitoring capabilities

• Enabling Service Discovery within a VCF deployment

• Reviewing VKS cluster monitoring capabilities introduced in VCF Operations 9.1

• Configuring vCenter and VCF Operations to enable enhanced VKS observability