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VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage [V7] («VSKDM7»)

This 3-day course focuses on implementing and managing VMware vSphere® with Tanzu. Learn how vSphere with Tanzu can be used to orchestrate the deployment of Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications in a vSphere environment.
Duration 3 days
Price 2'550.–
Course documents Original electronic VMware courseware (eKit)

Course facts

Key Learnings
  • Describing vSphere with Tanzu and use cases in on-premises environments
  • Deploying vSphere with Tanzu
  • Describing VMware Tanzu Mission Control
  • Describing the VMware NSX® networking requirements for vSphere with Tanzu
  • Describing vSphere with Tanzu on NSX-T Data Center
  • Describing vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere Distributed Switch
  • Creating and managing vSphere with Tanzu namespaces
  • Deploying and running container applications on vSphere with Tanzu
  • Deploying and configuring Harbor
  • Describing the VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™ service
  • Deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
  • Deploying and running container applications on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster
  • Describing the vSphere with Tanzu lifecycle
  • Using logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot vSphere with Tanzu
Content

1 Introduction to the course

  • Introduction and logistics of the course
  • Objectives of the course

2 Introduce the container and Kubernetes

  • Describe virtual machines and containers
  • Describe container hosts
  • Describe container engines
  • Describe Dockerfiles
  • Describe container images
  • Describe the image registry
  • Describe the purpose and features of Kubernetes
  • Describe YAML manifest files
  • Explain pods
  • Explain Replica Sets
  • Explain services
  • Spiegare i deployment
  • Explain network policies

3 Introduction to vSphere with Tanzu

  • Introduction to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
  • Introducing the VMware Tanzu wallet
  • Describe the purpose and features of vSphere with Tanzu
  • Describe vSphere features with Tanzu
  • Describe vSphere components with Tanzu
  • Compare vSphere with Tanzu to traditional Kubernetes
  • Describe vSphere requirements with Tanzu
  • Describe the NSX components required for vSphere with Tanzu
  • Describe vSphere network topology with Tanzu
  • Explain vSphere networking requirements with Tanzu
  • Compare NSX network objects to Kubernetes network objects
  • Describe the kubectl command line interface

4 vSphere Core Services with Tanzu

  • Explain the core services architecture of vSphere with Tanzu
  • Describe vSphere use cases with Tanzu
  • Enable vSphere with Tanzu
  • Deploy the Harbor Log
  • Describe a vSphere with Tanzu namespace
  • Describe resource quotas
  • Explain vSphere authentication and authorization with Tanzu
  • Create a namespace
  • Use kubectl to interact with vSphere with Tanzu
  • Describe the use of kubectl for pod deployment
  • Explain scaling a pod deployment
  • Explain deleting pods
  • Using kubectl to deploy a pod
  • Use kubectl to scale a pod
  • Describe the container storage interface
  • Explain VM storage policies and persistent volumes
  • Monitor Cloud Native storage
  • Create a persistent volume
  • Describe the NSX Container plugin
  • Explain the supervisor cluster network topology
  • Spiegare i Container Objects in NSX
  • Describe Kubernetes services
  • Describe Kubernetes network policies
  • Descrivere vSphere con Tanzu su vSphere Distributed Switch
  • Describe the Harbor image registry
  • Explain Harbor vSphere integration with Tanzu
  • Harbor enablement
  • Push Container images into Harbor
  • Distribution and container da Harbor

5 VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service

  • Introduce the Kubernetes Cluster API
  • Explain the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service
  • Describe the use cases of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters
  • Describe enabling Tanzu Kubernetes clusters
  • Distribute a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster
  • Scale a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster
  • Explain the life cycle of Tanzu Kubernetes clusters
  • Deploy i pod in a Tanzu Kubernetes cluster
  • Describe monitoring Tanzu Kubernetes clusters

6 Monitoring and troubleshooting

  • Describe monitoring tools for vSphere with Tanzu
  • Describe the troubleshooting tools for vSphere with Tanzu
  • Describe integration with VMware vRealize® Operations Manager
  • Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control
  • Describe the integration between vSphere with Tanzu and VMware Tanzu Mission Control
  • Describe vCenter Server events
  • Describe vSphere events with Tanzu
  • Describe the vSphere with Tanzu support log bundle collection

7 vSphere with Tanzu Life Cycle

  • Introduce the Kubernetes version
  • Explain the Kubernetes release cadence
  • Describe vSphere lifecycle with Tanzu
  • Describe the life cycle of NSX components
  • Describe vSphere certificate management with Tanzu
Target audience

This course is aimed at experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vSphere with Tanzu.

Requirements

Experience working at the command line is helpful. However, completion of the following course is required:

    VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] - Premium («V8ICMP»)

    4 days
    • Berne, Zürich
    CHF
    3'150.–
Certification

VMware Certification: Click here for an overview of the VMware certifications.

Additional information

In this course you will receive electronic course materials. The documents will be sent to you by VMware prior to the course to the address you provide when you register. You have the option of bringing your own tablet or laptop so that you can read the content and exercises parallel to your lessons. In addition, you have your documents already saved in the right place.

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