Course Overview
This comprehensive five-day hands-on training is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) 9.1 environments. This course blends lecture and hands-on lab exercises to deliver advanced skills to diagnose and resolve problems in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 environments. This course also focuses on investigating and resolving problems and analyzing log files to help you recognize log file entries that identify root causes.
Who should attend
System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants and Support Personnel
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
This course has the following prerequisites:
- VCF Fundamentals for Technical Support
- VMware Cloud Foundation: Build, Manage, and Secure (VCFBMS) [V9.1]
- VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate (VCFAO) [V9.1]
- Familiarity with command-line interfaces is strongly recommended.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the VCF solution
- Describe the VCF architecture and components
- Describe 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
- Describe the license assignment process for connected and disconnected deployments
- Identify the log file and log locations for VCF licensing components
- Explain the workload domain creation workflow
- Troubleshoot network pool creation
- Troubleshoot VMware® ESX® host commissioning
- Monitor VMware vSAN™ health using the VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations console
- Monitor vSAN Health using vSphere Client
- Monitor network operations
- Analyze flows and network performance
- Describe central password management in VCF Operations
- Monitor password expiration
- Describe the architecture and components of the VMSP cluster
- Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VMSP cluster provisioning
- Identify key kubectl commands and logs to check the health status of the VMSP cluster
- Generate, download, and review the structure of the VMware Cloud Foundation® Automation support log bundle
- Analyze vSphere Supervisor architecture to diagnose and troubleshoot issues.
- Troubleshoot VKS cluster deployments using logs and health checks.
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Troubleshooting with VCF Operations
- Troubleshooting New Deployment
- Troubleshooting Upgrades
- Troubleshooting License Management
- Workload Domain Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Compute
- Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Networking
- Troubleshooting VCF vSAN Storage
- Troubleshooting Using VCF Operations Fleet Management
- Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Automation
- Troubleshooting vSphere Kubernetes Service
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