VMware Cloud Foundation Troubleshooting [V9.1]

Overview

This five-day hands-on training provides knowledge and skills to troubleshoot VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 environments. The course combines lectures and practical lab exercises, focusing on diagnosing and resolving issues, analyzing log files, and investigating root causes in VCF environments.

Prerequisites

Participants should have:

• VCF Fundamentals for Technical Support
• VMware Cloud Foundation Build Manage Secure [v9.1]
• VMware Cloud Foundation Automate and Operate [v9.1]
• Familiarity with command-line interfaces is strongly recommended

Target audience

This course is designed for:

• System administrators
• Solution engineers
• Consultants
• Architects
• Support personnel

Objectives

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Describe the VCF solution, architecture, and components
• Explain the troubleshooting methodology for validation precheck errors
• Identify and use logs to troubleshoot VCF Installer and licensing components
• Explain workload domain creation workflow and troubleshoot related issues
• Monitor vSAN health and network operations using VCF Operations
• Analyze flows and network performance
• Diagnose and troubleshoot vSphere Supervisor and VKS cluster deployments

Outline

Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

Troubleshooting with VCF Operations

• Analyze fleet visibility, VCF Health, storage, and network operations
• Compare tools for monitoring logs, metrics, flows, and Kubernetes environments
• Explain monitoring capabilities for business applications
• Outline logs, metrics, and flows for operational visibility
• Troubleshooting Workbench capabilities and session management
• Log comparison feature
• Real-Time Metrics, TopN, and Flows pages
• Integrated log management and new features in VCF Operations 9.1
• Steps for deploying Log Management component

Troubleshooting New Deployment

• Describe VCF solution, architecture, and components
• Sequence of steps during VCF installation
• Key log files for troubleshooting installation

Troubleshooting Upgrades

• Deployment model based on existing infrastructure
• Troubleshooting methodology for validation precheck errors
• Correct logs for troubleshooting VCF Installer
• Key components and features of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
• Architecture of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
• Supported upgrade paths to vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
• Prerequisites for deploying vSphere Foundation

Troubleshooting License Management

• License assignment process for connected and disconnected deployments
• Log files and locations for VCF licensing components
• Commands on ESX host to verify licensing status

Workload Domain Troubleshooting

• Workload domain architecture models
• Workflow of workload domain creation
• Troubleshooting workload domain commissioning issues
• Networking prerequisites for workload domain creation
• Key log files for troubleshooting workload domain issues

Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Compute

• Monitor compute environments
• Troubleshoot ESX hosts and vCenter issues
• Diagnose and resolve virtual machine problems
• vSphere cluster features and related issues

Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Networking

• Monitor network operations
• Deploy Operations Network appliance
• Analyze flows and network performance

Troubleshooting VCF vSAN Storage

• Analyze vSAN performance using VCF Operations
• Tools for monitoring vSAN cluster and their use cases
• Reports in VCF Operations for vSAN management
• Tools for capturing performance metrics at VM and VMDK level

Troubleshooting Using VCF Operations Fleet Management

• Centralized certificate management
• Configure Microsoft certificate authority
• Generate and replace certificate signing requests
• Troubleshoot MSCA intermediate CA certificate failures
• Component logs for certificate management issues

Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Automation

• VCF Automation deployment stages and options
• Prerequisites for clustered setup
• Steps for clustered deployment
• Key log files for troubleshooting deployment issues

Troubleshooting vSphere Kubernetes Service

• Key components of vSphere Supervisor
• vSphere Supervisor deployment models
• Key components of vSphere Kubernetes Service
• vSphere Supervisor and VKS integration with Fleet Depot Service

Exams and assessments

This course will help prepare the learner for the VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Support exam.

Hands-on learning

This course Includes hands-on lab exercises for practical understanding of VCF v9.1 features and enhancements.