What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation v9.1

Overview

This five-day course provides an in-depth overview of the latest features and enhancements in VMware Cloud Foundation v9.1. It covers updates across infrastructure preparation, compute, storage, networking, automation, and operations. The curriculum is designed to teach the skills required to architect and implement VCF v9.1, combining lectures and hands-on lab exercises for practical understanding.

Prerequisites

Participants should have:

• Working experience and knowledge of VCF, VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, and vSAN environments

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:

• Recognize key features and enhancements introduced in VCF 9.1
• Develop skills to implement VCF environments
• Operate the VCF platform and evaluate critical deployment strategies
• Explain compute enhancements such as memory tiering, CPU optimization, and vCenter UI usability improvements
• Outline new storage capabilities including vSAN ESA Auto-RAID and stretched cluster enhancements
• Understand networking updates focused on VPC consumption from vCenter and enhancements in transit gateway functionality
• Deploy workload domains, manage VCF management services, and lifecycle enhancements

Outline

Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

VCF Installer Enhancements

• Describe VCF components
• Outline VCF deployment and imports
• Explain custom and dual-stack networks
• Identify management services and credentials

VCF Operations Navigation and Licensing

• List key VCF Operations features
• Perform VCF 9.1 console navigation
• Compare VCF 9.0 and VCF 9.1 licensing
• Evaluate connected and air-gapped options

VCF Compute

• Identify key features of vCenter enhancements
• List ESX enhancements
• Explain vSphere resource enhancements
• Describe vSphere network enhancements
• Recognize virtual machines enhancements
• Identify vSphere certificate improvements
• List the latest API enhancements

VCF Storage

• Outline vSAN ESA Auto-RAID features
• Explain vSAN stretched cluster updates
• Identify disaggregated vSAN storage capabilities
• Describe vSAN protection and recovery
• Explain iSCSI and NFS enhancements

VCF Networking

• Explain VPC consumption from vCenter
• Describe distributed transit gateway enhancements
• Understand centralized transit gateway connectivity
• Evaluate centralized transit gateway VPNs

VCF Fleet and Lifecycle Enhancements

• List workload domain deployment steps
• Explain out-of-band validation enhancements
• Describe VCF management service components
• Explain service high availability mechanisms
• Outline identity and access enhancements
• View cluster-level configuration drifts

VCF Upgrade Pathways

• Review VCF 9.1 upgrade pathways
• Plan vSphere to VCF upgrades
• Upgrade existing VCF platform environments
• Explain VVF to VCF upgrades

VCF Automation

• Describe VCF automation scalability enhancements
• Describe organization management enhancements
• Configure multi-supervisor region quota settings
• Explain networking and blueprint enhancements
• Manage container and VKS services
• Outline Cloud Director migration process

VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service

• Explain vSphere Supervisor enhanced architecture with multi-cluster zones
• Explain VM Service enhancements
• Outline steps for adding multiple networks on VKS cluster
• Explain VKS cluster node customization using AppArmor and TuneD profiles
• Explain how to build RHEL-9 Vkr images using VCF CLI

VCF Operations

• Explain installer enhancements
• Explain UI enhancements
• Understand day-two operations and management
• Outline VCF health and findings enhancements
• Outline real-time metrics and troubleshooting workbench enhancements
• Describe log management architecture
• Outline capacity, cost, and price enhancements
• Explain automated VKS cluster monitoring

Exams and assessments

There is no specific exam or certification associated with this course

Hands-on learning

This course includes:

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