Tento pětidenní kurz What's New in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) v9.1 poskytuje podrobný přehled nejnovějších funkcí a vylepšení této platformy. Studijní program je navržen tak, aby účastníkům poskytl znalosti a dovednosti potřebné k efektivnímu návrhu a implementaci prostředí VCF v9.1. Kurz se zaměřuje na klíčové novinky a změny v oblastech přípravy infrastruktury, výpočetních zdrojů (compute), úložišť (storage), sítí (networking), automatizace a provozu (operations). Výuka kombinuje teoretické přednášky s praktickými laboratorními cvičeními, která pomáhají lépe porozumět novým funkcím a jejich využití v praxi. Po absolvování kurzu budete rozumět nejdůležitějším novinkám ve VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 a budete schopni je efektivně využít při návrhu, nasazení a správě moderní cloudové infrastruktury. 

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

● Recognize key features and enhancements introduced in VCF 9.1.
● Develop skills to implement VCF environments.
● Operate the VCF platform and evaluate critical deployment strategies.
● Explain compute enhancements such as memory tiering, CPU optimization, and vCenter UI usability improvements.
● Outline new storage capabilities including vSAN ESA Auto-RAID and stretched cluster enhancements.
● Understand networking updates focused on VPC consumption from vCenter and enhancements in transit gateway functionality.
● Deploy workload domains, manage VCF Management services, and lifecycle enhancements.
● Plan environment updates using VCF upgrade pathways.
● Identify VCF Automation improvements for scalability, multi-supervisor regions, and blueprints.
● Describe VKS enhancements related to Supervisor deployment topologies and network customization.
● Leverage VCF Operations for VCF Health, fleet management, real-time metrics, and Log management.

● System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, Architects, and Support Personnel

● Working experience and knowledge of VCF, VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, and vSAN environments

1. Course Introduction

● Introduction and course logistics.
● Course objectives.

2. VCF Installer Enhancements

● Describe VCF components.
● Outline VCF deployment and imports.
● Explain custom and dual-stack networks.
● Identify management services and credentials.

3. VCF Operations Navigation and Licensing

● List key VCF Operations features.
● Perform VCF 9.1 console navigation.
● Compare VCF 9.0 and VCF 9.1 licensing.
● Evaluate connected and air-gapped options.

4. VCF Compute

● Identify key features of vCenter Enhancements.
● List the ESX Enhancements.
● Explain vSphere Resource Enhancements.
● Describe the key  vSphere Network Enhancements.
● Recognize virtual machines enhancements
● Identify vSphere Certificate Improvements.
● List the latest API Enhancements

5. VCF Storage

● Outline vSAN ESA Auto-RAID features 
● Explain vSAN stretched cluster updates 
● Identify disaggregated vSAN storage capabilities 
● Describe vSAN protection and recovery 
● Explain iSCSI and NFS enhancements

6. VCF Networking

● Explain VPC consumption from vCenter 
● Describe Distributed Transit Gateway enhancements 
● Understand Centralized Transit Gateway connectivity 
● Evaluate Centralized Transit Gateway VPNs 

7. VCF Fleet and Lifecycle Enhancements

● List workload domain deployment steps.
● Explain out-of-band validation enhancements.
● Describe VCF management service components.
● Explain service high availability mechanisms.
● Outline identity and access enhancements.
● View cluster-level configuration drifts.

8. VCF Upgrade Pathways 

● Review VCF 9.1 upgrade pathways 
● Plan vSphere to VCF upgrades 
● Upgrade existing VCF platform environments
● Explain VVF to VCF upgrades 

9. VCF Automation

● Describe VCF Automation scalability enhancements
● Describe organization management enhancements 
● Configure multi-supervisor region quota settings 
● Explain networking and blueprint enhancements 
● Manage container and VKS services 
● Outline Cloud Director migration process 

10. VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

● Explain vSphere Supervisor enhanced architecture with multi-cluster zones
● Explain VM Service enhancements
● Outline the steps for adding multiple networks on VKS cluster
● Explain VKS cluster node customization using AppArmor and TuneD profiles
● Explain how to build RHEL-9 Vkr images using VCF CLI

11.   VCF Operations

● Explain the installer enhancements 
● Explain the UI enhancements 
● Understand day-two operations and management 
● Outline VCF health and findings enhancements
● Outline Real-Time metrics and troubleshooting workbench enhancements
● Describe Log Management architecture 
● Outline capacity, cost, and price enhancements
● Explain Automated VKS Cluster Monitoring