VMware Cloud Foundation: Plan and Deploy [V4.0]

Experienced solution architects, system integrators, and consultants responsible for designing and deploying VMware Cloud Foundation

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe VMware Cloud Foundation architecture
• Determine appropriate Management Domain and Workload Domain sizing
• Describe design implications of VMware Cloud Foundation standard or consolidated architecture
• List requirements for VMware Cloud Foundation deployment
• Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation bring up process
• Use the deployment parameter sheet to define infrastructure details
• Perform VMware Cloud Foundation bring up
• Describe physical and virtual networking considerations
• Outline VMware Cloud Foundation storage options
• Plan for solution integration with VMware Cloud Foundation
• Use the VMware Imaging Appliance to image ESXi hosts
• Describe VMware Cloud Foundation multi-instance federation

Experience with VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere or VMware NSX-T Data Center is recommended.

This class requires system administration experience with VMware vSphere and VMware NSX-T Data Center deployments

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Completion of one of the following courses:

1  Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2  VMware Cloud Foundation Overview

• Describe how VMware Cloud Foundation solves Data Center challenges
• Describe VMware Cloud Foundation architecture
• Discuss VMware Cloud Foundation standard and consolidated design

3  Design & Size

• Determine appropriate management domain sizing
• Determine appropriate workload domain sizing
• Consider shared vs dedicated NSX-T Manager design

4  Day Zero and Day One Tasks

• Describe requirements for VMware Cloud Foundation deployment
• Discuss the VMware Cloud Foundation bring up process
• Review and complete the deployment parameter sheet
• Perform the VMware Cloud Foundation bring up
• Navigate the SDDC Manager user interface
• List day one tasks

5  VMware Cloud Foundation Underlay

• Describe a hierarchical network underlay design for VMware Cloud Foundation
• Describe a spine and leaf network underlay design for VMware Cloud Foundation
• Compare different NSX Edge placement options
• Describe workload domain rack designs
• Describe VMware Cloud Foundation principle storage options
• Consider VMware Cloud Foundation design for enterprises and service providers
• Discuss design considerations for solutions, including vSphere with Kubernetes and vRealize Suite

6  VMware Imaging Appliance Service

• Describe host imaging methods
• Discuss host imaging process with VMware Imaging Appliance service (VIA)
• Configure VIA for host imaging
• Image an ESXi host using VIA

7  VMware Cloud Foundation Multi-Instance Federation

• Describe VMware Cloud Foundation multi-instance federation
• List multi-instance federation configuration maximums
• Discuss design considerations for multi-instance federation