VMware Cloud Foundation: Solution Architecture and Design [9.0] VCFSAD9

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

Students should have completed VMware Cloud Foundation: Build, Manage, and Secure or have equivalent hands-on experience deploying and managing VCF environments.

Course Description

This five-day course explores the architecture and design considerations for an initial deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The course explains the architecture framework and language, as well as design considerations for building, operationalizing, and consuming a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment. The scope of the course is centered on the core design considerations applicable to a VMware Cloud Foundation deployment in a single site.

Learning Objectives

• Describe and apply an appropriate design framework.
• Apply a design process for gathering requirements, constraints, assumptions and risks.
• Understand VMware VCF constructs such as site, fleet and instance.
• Understand data center fabric needs to support VCF.
• Understand VCF storage and network design options.
• Design a single site single fleet deployment of VCF with recommended design options.
• Design management and workload domains with appropriate compute and storage resources.
• Design a consumption layer leveraging VCF Automation and Supervisor.
• Understand the day-2 operating model, operations metrics, and reporting needs of VCF.
• Understand future opportunities to extend the VCF platform with advanced services.

Course Outline

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course Objectives
• Architecture Frameworks
• Business Objectives
• Design Models
• VCF Design Blueprints and Use Cases
• Upgrade Overview
• License Management Overview
• Sites, Fleets and Instances
• Management and Workload Domains
• Designing Conceptual and Logical Designs
• VCF Operations Platform Design
• Networking Fabric Design
• VCF Networking Design
• VCF Storage Overview
• Storage Design Considerations
• Management Domain Design Overview
• Management Domain Design Sizing Considerations
• Management Domain Design Decisions
• Storage Requirements for Management Workloads
• Networking Requirements for Management Workloads
• Platform-Based Protection Mechanisms
• Workload Domain Design Overview
• Cluster Design Overview
• Storage Requirement for Workload Domains
• Networking Requirements for Workload Domains
• Security Design Considerations
• Designing for Availability
• Designing for Manageability
• Designing for Performance