The world of cloud computing is constantly evolving, and staying ahead of the curve is essential for any IT professional. We are excited to announce a brand-new lineup of training courses from VMware, designed to build expertise for the latest iteration of their powerful hybrid cloud platform: VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.
These courses are tailored to different roles and responsibilities within the VCF ecosystem, ensuring that whether you are building, managing, designing, or troubleshooting, there’s a path for you to master this technology. Let's take a look at what each course has to offer.
1. VMware Cloud Foundation: Build, Manage and Secure [9.0]
This foundational course is designed for administrators and engineers responsible for the day-to-day management of a VCF environment. It provides the essential skills needed to deploy, configure, and maintain the platform, ensuring a secure and stable private cloud.
This course will likely cover key areas such as:
- Deployment and Configuration: Learn to deploy VCF components like vCenter and ESX, configure vSphere clusters, and manage virtual machines.
- Storage Fundamentals: Get hands-on with vSphere and vSAN storage, including deploying clusters and configuring storage policies for resilience and efficiency.
- Fleet Management: Understand how to manage the entire VCF fleet, including identity and access management (RBAC), license and certificate management, and lifecycle updates.
- Basic Operations: Monitor the health and diagnostics of VCF components, manage log events, and ensure the security and compliance of your environment.
2. VMware Cloud Foundation: Automation and Operations [9.0]
This course is perfect for cloud administrators and automation specialists who want to leverage the full potential of VCF's automation and operational capabilities. The provided course materials for "Automate and Operate" show a deep dive into creating a self-service private cloud experience.
Key topics you can expect to master include:
- VCF Automation Architecture: Understand the core components and architecture that enable automation, including the VCF Management Services Platform and the role of identity providers for single sign-on.
- Building a Private Cloud: Learn to build a private cloud environment from the ground up, configuring provider networking, creating regions, and managing multi-organizational tenancy.
- Self-Service and Consumption: Enable a self-service consumption model by creating and managing content libraries, deploying modern applications, and using the VCF Operations Orchestrator to automate complex workflows.
- Operations and Monitoring: Dive deep into VCF Operations, creating custom views, reports, and dashboards. Learn to configure alerts, monitor logs, and use policies to govern your cloud environment.
3. VMware Cloud Foundation: Troubleshooting [9.0]
When things go wrong, you need the skills to fix them quickly and efficiently. This troubleshooting course is aimed at support staff, experienced administrators, and anyone who needs to diagnose and resolve issues within a VCF 9.0 environment.
This course will equip you with the methodologies to tackle problems across the entire stack:
- Troubleshooting the VCF Fleet: Learn to resolve issues related to the initial deployment, scaling, and upgrading of the VCF fleet and its components.
- Workload Domain Issues: Diagnose problems with creating and scaling workload domains, including adding and removing clusters and hosts.
- Component Troubleshooting: Gain expertise in troubleshooting specific VCF components, including vSAN, NSX, VCF Operations, and the Identity Broker.
- Advanced Diagnostics: Master the use of the Observability Workbench, generate log bundles with Log Assist, and create custom reports and alerts to pinpoint issues effectively.
4. VMware Cloud Foundation: Solution Architecture and Design [9.0]
For cloud architects and consultants, designing a solution that meets business requirements is paramount. This course focuses on the high-level planning and design principles needed to build robust, scalable, and resilient VCF solutions.
This course will cover the critical aspects of solution design:
- Architectural Principles: Differentiate between business requirements and technical constraints, and understand the distinctions between conceptual, logical, and physical designs.
- Designing for VCF: Make key design decisions for VCF fleet topology, network infrastructure, and management and workload domains.
- Core Design Qualities (AMPRS): Design for Availability, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability, and Security by creating solutions that meet specific business continuity and disaster recovery requirements.
- Consumption and Migration Strategy: Develop strategies for workload migration, design a consumption model with tenant automation and self-service, and create a comprehensive monitoring plan for the VCF environment.
These new courses represent a fantastic opportunity to enhance your skills and validate your expertise with VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. Keep an eye on the official VMware Education Services website for release dates and get ready to take your cloud capabilities to the next level!
