VMware Cloud Foundation: Troubleshooting (VCFTS) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

1. Course Introduction
  • Introduction and course logistics.
  • Course objectives
2. Troubleshooting with VCF Operations
  • Analyze fleet visibility, VCF Health, storage, and network operations using VCF Operations.
  • Compare the tools used to monitor integrated logs, metrics, flows, and Kubernetes environments, and identify their use cases.
  • Explain the monitoring capabilities available for critical business applications in VCF Operations.
  • Outline how logs, metrics, and flows work together to provide end to end operational visibility.
  • Outline the new Troubleshooting Workbench capabilities
  • Manage a troubleshooting workbench session, such as Save and Share
  • Use the log comparison feature in a troubleshooting session
  • View the Real-Time Metrics and TopN pages in a troubleshooting session
  • View the Flows page in a troubleshooting session
  • Discuss the integrated log management capabilities
  • Describe the new features and enhancements in Log Management in VCF Operations 9.1
  • Outline the steps of deploying the Log Management component
3. Troubleshooting New 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
4. 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 VMware Cloud Foundation (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 vSphere Foundation 9.0 private cloud
  • Identify the prerequisites to deploy vSphere Foundation
5. Troubleshooting License Management
  • 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
6. Workload Domain Troubleshooting
  • Describe the various workload domain architecture models
  • Describe the workflow of workload domain creation
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot workload domain commissioning issues
  • Identify the networking prerequisites for creating the workload domain
  • Identify the key log files for troubleshooting workload domain issues
7. Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Compute
  • Monitor compute environments using VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Troubleshoot ESX hosts and vCenter issues effectively
  • Diagnose and resolve virtual machine problems efficiently
  • Describe vSphere cluster features and related issues
8. Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Networking
  • Monitor network operations
  • Deploy the Operations Network appliance
  • Analyze flows and network performance
9. Troubleshooting VCF vSAN Storage
  • Analyze vSAN performance using VCF Operations
  • Compare tools used to monitor a vSAN cluster and identify their use cases
  • Explain the reports available in VCF Operations for managing vSAN environments
  • Outline the tools available for capturing performance metrics at the VM and VMDK level
10. Troubleshooting Using VCF Operations Fleet Management
  • Describe centralized certificate management
  • Configure a Microsoft certificate authority
  • Generate and replace component certificate signing requests.
  • Troubleshoot MSCA intermediate CA certificate failures.
  • Identify component logs for certificate management issues.
11. Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Automation
  • Identify the VCF Automation deployment stages and options
  • List the prerequisites for deploying clustered setup
  • Describe the various steps involved in clustered deployment
  • Identify the key log files to troubleshoot deployment issues
12. Troubleshooting vSphere Kubernetes Service
  • Identify the key components of vSphere Supervisor
  • List the various vSphere Supervisor deployment models
  • Identify the key components of vSphere Kubernetes Service
  • Describe vSphere Supervisor and VKS integration with Fleet Depot Service for unified software management