During this three-day course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® in a VMware
vSphere® 8 environment. You learn how vSphere with Tanzu provides services to deploy and manage virtual machines,
vSphere Pods, Supervisor Services, and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters. You will also gain experience with day
2 operations and life cycle management of a vSphere with Tanzu environment.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• Describe how vSphere with Tanzu fits in the VMware Tanzu® portfolio
• Describe the vSphere with Tanzu concepts and architecture
• Describe vSphere with Tanzu on VMware NSX®
• Describe vSphere with Tanzu on VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
• List the load balancer solutions supported by vSphere with Tanzu
• Describe the vSphere with Tanzu storage components
• Deploy and manage Supervisors
• Describe vSphere Pod capabilities and components
• Deploy and configure Contour as a Supervisor Service
• Deploy and configure ExternalDNS as a Supervisor Service
• Deploy and configure Harbor as a Supervisor Service
• Deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters
• Deploy and manage virtual machines using the VM Service
• Deploy applications in a vSphere with Tanzu environment
• Perform a backup using Velero
• Use the vSphere UI and CLI to monitor the health of the vSphere with Tanzu environment
• Use logs and CLI commands to troubleshoot the vSphere with Tanzu environment

vSphere administrators and platform operators who are responsible for deploying and managing workloads and services in
vSphere with Tanzu

• Experience deploying and managing vSphere
• Understanding of Kubernetes and the Kubernetes cluster architecture
Attending one of the following courses is recommended:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations