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VMware Cloud Foundation: Troubleshooting [V9.0]

H46GQS

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H46GQS

Duration

5 days

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ILT/VILT

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Overview

This comprehensive 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 lectures and hands-on lab exercises to develop advanced skills to diagnose and resolve problems in VCF 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.

Course ID

H46GQS

Duration

5 days

Format

ILT/VILT

Schedule, pricing & registration

Browse related courses

  • Audience

    This course is ideal for system administrators, solution engineers, consultants, and support personnel.

  • Prerequisites

    Before taking this course, students should have completed the VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals for Technical Support eLearning course. Familiarity with command-line interfaces is also strongly recommended.

  • Objectives

    After completing this course, you should be able to:

    • Describe the VCF solution, 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 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 and VMware ESX® host commissioning
    • Monitor VMware vSAN™ health using the VCM Operations console and the vSphere Client
    • Monitor network operations and analyze flows and network performance
    • Describe central password management in VCF Operations and 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 VCF Automation support log bundle

  • Certifications and related exams

    This course is recommended for the VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Support certification

  • Course outline

Module 1: Course Introduction
  • Introduction and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Module 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

Module 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 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 VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 private cloud
  • Identify the prerequisites to deploy VMware vSphere Foundation

Module 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

Module 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

Module 6: Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Compute
  • Monitor compute environments using VCF
  • Troubleshoot ESX hosts and VMware vCenter issues effectively
  • Diagnose and resolve virtual machine problems efficiently
  • Describe VMware vSphere cluster features and related issues
  • Describe diagnostic findings to identify and remediate issues

Module 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

Module 8: Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Networking
  • Monitor network operations
  • Deploy the VCF Operations network appliance
  • Analyze flows and network performance

Module 9: Troubleshooting VCF Operations Fleet Management
  • Describe central password management in VCF Operations
  • Implement password management
  • Monitor password expiration
  • Update VCF component passwords

Module 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

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