This course provides a working overview of how VMware Cloud Foundation v9.x consumes hyper-converged infrastructure to operate as a private cloud full-stack platform to optimize, modernize, and maximize the capabilities of your data center.

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Understand how to operate and migrate workloads in multi-cloud environments.
• Understand VMware Cloud Foundation Tanzu deployment.
• Leverage VMware Cloud Foundations to protect modern apps with NSX.
• Evaluate advanced infrastructure and overlay network monitoring technologies.
• Observe how VMware seamlessly integrates HCX for Workload Mobility.

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

• Systems Engineers
• Cloud Architects
• Network Administrators
• Security Administrators
• Modern Application Administrators
• Infrastructure Architects
• Technical Decision Makers

This course requires completion of the following course:

• Basic understanding of switching and routing technologies
• Basic understanding of Security technologies
• Knowledge and working experience with VMware vSphere environments.
• Basic understanding of Software Defined Networking Technologies

Module 1: VMware Cloud Foundation Overview
• Explain VMware Cloud Foundation
• Describe SDDC Manager
• vSphere and vSphere+ Overview
• vSAN and vSAN+ Overview
• VMware Cloud Foundation+

Module 2: Operate VMware Cloud Foundation NSX
• NSX with VMware Cloud Foundation
• NSX Edge Clusters Using SDDC Manager
• Understand Application Virtual Networks
• Deploying Advanced Networking and Security
• Describe NSX Multi-tenancy

Module 3: Operate vSphere with Tanzu in VMware Cloud Foundation
• vSphere with Tanzu Overview
• Describing vSphere with Tanzu Namespaces
• Describing vSphere with Tanzu Networking
• Deploying vSphere with Tanzu in VMware Cloud Foundation
• Describing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 in VMware Cloud Foundation

Module 4: Operate VMware Cloud Foundation Storage
• Describe VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Design
• Advantages of vSAN as VMware Cloud Foundation Storage
• Describe Storage Policy-Based Management

Module 5: VMware HCX with VMware Cloud Foundation
• VMware HCX Overview
• VMware HCX with VMware Cloud Foundation
• Describe HCX Deployment Use Cases
• Deploying and Managing VMware HCX
• Workload Migration to VMware Cloud Foundation
• Understand HCX Workload Mobility for VMware Cloud Foundation

Lab Outline:
• Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:
• Lab 1: Manage VMware Cloud Foundation Workloads
• Lab 2: Operate VMware Cloud Foundation with Tanzu
• Lab 3: Secure Workloads Using VMware Cloud Foundation
• Lab 4: Operate VMware Cloud Foundation with HCX
• Lab 5: Monitoring VMware Cloud Foundation with Aria Suite