VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage [v8.0] Training

In this three-day course, you’ll focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with Tanzu® in a vSphere 8 environment. You’ll gain hands-on experience in managing Supervisor Services, VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) clusters, vSphere Pods, and VM workloads, as well as day-2 operations and life cycle management.

Product Alignment

• VMware vSphere® 8 Update 1

• VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ 22.1.3

• VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ 2.0

• Experience deploying and managing vSphere

• Understanding of Kubernetes and cluster architecture

• Recommended courses:

  • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

  • Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

• Explain the role of vSphere with Tanzu in the VMware Tanzu portfolio

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu concepts, architecture, and components

• Understand integration with NSX and Distributed Switch

• Deploy and manage Supervisors, VM Service, and Supervisor Services

• Deploy and configure Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters

• Manage vSphere Pods and deploy applications

• Perform backups with Velero

• Use vSphere UI and CLI for monitoring and troubleshooting

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course objectives

2. Introducing vSphere with Tanzu

• Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, Mission Control, and Kubernetes Operations

• Supervisor architecture, Namespaces, and Services

• VM Service and TKG clusters

3. vSphere with Tanzu Infrastructure

• Storage concepts, storage policies, and content libraries

• Container Storage Interface (CSI)

• vSAN Direct datastores

• Network stack options, NSX, and load balancers

4. vSphere with Tanzu Architecture

• Supervisor deployment options and requirements

• Licensing, authentication, and RBAC

• Namespace resource limits and roles

• CLI tools for vSphere Kubernetes

5. Core Services

• vSphere Pods and their components

• VM Service: parameters, requirements, and use cases

• Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters

6. Supervisor Services

• Supervisor Services catalog

• Adding and managing services lifecycle

7. Life Cycle Management

• Supervisor and Namespace updates

• TKG cluster update process

8. Day-2 Operations

• Viewing namespace events and monitoring Pods

• Performance tracking and certificate management

• Troubleshooting with logs and support bundles

• SSH access to Supervisor nodes