This comprehensive five-day hands-on training is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) 9.0 environments. This course blends lecture and hands-on lab exercises to deliver advanced skills to diagnose and resolve problems in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 environments. This course also focuses on investigating and resolving problems and analyzing log files to help you recognize log file entries that identify root causes.

Prerequisites

Participants should have:

Before taking this course, students should have completed the VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals for Technical Support training from Support Learning Path Stage-1.
Familiarity with command-line interfaces is strongly recommended.

Target Audience

This course is designed for: System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, and Support Personnel.

For corporate groups, we can organize this training as an on-site private group.

What You Will Learn

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

Describe the VCF solution
Describe the VCF architecture and components
Describe the deployment model based on the existing infrastructure
Explain the troubleshooting methodology to resolve common validation precheck errors
Identify and use the correct logs to troubleshoot VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Installer
Describe the license assignment process for connected and disconnected deployments
Identify the log file and log locations for VCF licensing components
Explain the workload domain creation workflow
Troubleshoot network pool creation
Troubleshoot VMware® ESX® host commissioning
Monitor VMware vSAN™ health using the VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations console
Monitor vSAN Health using vSphere Client
Monitor network operations
Analyze flows and network performance
Describe central password management in VCF Operations
Monitor password expiration
Describe the architecture and components of the VMSP cluster
Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VMSP cluster provisioning
Identify key kubectl commands and logs to check the health status of the VMSP cluster
Generate, download, and review the structure of the VMware Cloud Foundation® Automation support log bundle

Training Outline

1. Course Introduction

Introduction and course logistics
Course objectives

2. Troubleshooting VCF Deployment

Describe the VCF solution
Describe the VCF architecture and components
Describe the sequence of steps that occur during the VCF installation process
Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VCF installation
Describe the VMware vSphere® Foundation solution
Describe the vSphere Foundation architecture and components

3. Troubleshooting Upgrades

Understand the deployment model based on the existing infrastructure
Explain the troubleshooting methodology to resolve common validation precheck errors
Identify and use the correct logs to troubleshoot VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Installer
Explain the key components and features of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
Understand the architecture of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
Identify and analyze the supported upgrade paths to vSphere Foundation 9.0 private cloud
Identify the prerequisites to deploy vSphere Foundation

4. Troubleshooting License

Describe the license assignment process for connected and disconnected deployments
Identify the log file and log locations for VCF licensing components
Run commands on the ESX host to verify licensing status

5. Workload Domain Troubleshooting

Describe the workload domain architecture and components
Explain the workload domain creation workflow
Troubleshoot network pool creation
Troubleshoot ESX host commissioning
Troubleshoot the different steps in workload domain creation

6. Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Compute

Monitor compute environments using VMware Cloud Foundation
Troubleshoot ESX hosts and vCenter issues effectively
Diagnose and resolve virtual machine problems efficiently
Describe vSphere cluster features and related issues
Describe diagnostic findings to identify and remediate issues

7. Troubleshooting VCF vSAN Storage

Monitor vSAN health using the VCF Operations console
Monitor vSAN Health using VCF Operations diagnostics Health in the vSphere Client
Monitor object health in the vSphere Client

8. Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Networking

Monitor network operations
Deploy the Operations Network appliance
Analyze flows and network performance

9. Troubleshooting VCF Operations Fleet Management

Describe central password management in VCF Operations
Implement password management
Monitor password expiration
Update VCF component passwords

10.Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Automation

Describe the architecture and components of the VMSP cluster
Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VMSP cluster provisioning
Identify key kubectl commands and logs to check the health status of the VMSP cluster
Generate, download, and review the structure of the VCF Automation support log bundle

Exams and Assessments

The VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Support (2V0-15.25) exam for the VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Support certification is available separately.

Hands-On Learning

This course is delivered through a combination of presentations, demonstrations and practical learner labs

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