Detailed Course Outline
Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics
- Course objectives
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
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
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
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
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
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
Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Networking
- Monitor network operations
- Deploy the Operations Network appliance
- Analyze flows and network performance
Troubleshooting VCF Operations Fleet Management
- Describe central password management in VCF Operations
- Implement password management
- Monitor password expiration
- Update VCF component passwords
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