VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy, Configure, Manage [V8]
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Goals
During this three-day course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® in a VMware vSphere® 8 environment. You learn how vSphere with Tanzu provides services to deploy and manage virtual machines and vSphere Pods. You will also gain experience with managing Supervisor Services and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters in addition to day 2 operations and life cycle management. By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe how vSphere with Tanzu fits in the VMware Tanzu® portfolio
- Describe the vSphere with Tanzu concepts and architecture
- Describe vSphere with Tanzu on VMware NSX®
- Describe vSphere with Tanzu on VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™
- List the load balancer solutions supported by vSphere with Tanzu
- Describe the vSphere with Tanzu storage components
- Deploy and manage Supervisors
- Deploy and manage virtual machines using the VM Service
- Deploy and configure Contour as a Supervisor Service
- Deploy and configure ExternalDNS as a Supervisor Service
- Deploy and configure Harbor as a Supervisor Service
- Deploy and manage Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters
- Deploy applications in a vSphere with Tanzu environment
- Perform a backup using Velero
- Use the vSphere UI and CLI to monitor the health of the vSphere with Tanzu environment
- Use logs and CLI commands to troubleshoot the vSphere with Tanzu environment
Duration
3 days (8h/day)
Contents
1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives
2 Introducing vSphere with Tanzu
• Describe vSphere with Tanzu • Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid • Describe VMware Tanzu® Mission Control • Describe VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations • Explain the purpose of vSphere with Tanzu • Identify the capabilities of vSphere with Tanzu • Describe the vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor • Identify the components of the vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor • Describe vSphere Namespaces • Describe the Supervisor Services • Describe the VM Service • Describe the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters
3 vSphere with Tanzu Infrastructure
• Explain the storage concepts in vSphere with Tanzu • Describe storage policies • Describe content libraries • Describe Container Storage Interface • Discuss storage for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters • Explain vSAN Direct datastores for vSphere with Tanzu • Identify the two network stacks available for vSphere with Tanzu deployments • Describe the VMware vSphere® Distributed Switch™ components that are used by vSphere with Tanzu • List the VMware NSX® components that are used by vSphere with Tanzu • List the load balancer solutions supported by vSphere with Tanzu
4 vSphere with Tanzu Architecture
• Describe the Supervisor architecture • List the different options for deploying the Supervisor • Outline the requirements for deploying a Supervisor • Outline the licensing requirements for the Supervisor • Describe vSphere Namespaces • List vSphere Namespaces resources and Kubernetes object limits • Describe content libraries and VM images • Describe VM classes • List the different type of authentication available in vSphere with Tanzu • Explain vSphere privileges • Explain roles and permissions in vSphere Namespaces • Explain Tanzu Kubernetes Grid RBAC • List the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid authentication methods • Describe Kubernetes CLI Tools for vSphere • List the vSphere with Tanzu services and workloads • Identify the supportability for vSphere with Tanzu services and workloads based on the Supervisor deployment types
5 vSphere with Tanzu Core Services
• Describe the characteristics of vSphere Pods • Recognize the capabilities of vSphere Pods • Identify the components of vSphere Pods • Describe the VM Service • Explain the use cases of the VM Service • List the VM Service parameters • Outline the requirements for deploying a VM using the VM Service • Describe Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters • List the components of a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster • List the options for deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters • List the different types of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters • Outline the requirements for deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster
6 vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor Services
• Explain the concept of Supervisor Services • Describe the Supervisor Services catalog and its available services • Explain how to add and manage the life cycle of Supervisor Services
7 vSphere with Tanzu Life Cycle
• List the prerequisites and steps for updating vSphere with Tanzu • Explain the Supervisor updates • Explain the vSphere Namespace update • Discuss the update process of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters
8 Day 2 Operations
• Explain how to view Kubernetes namespace events • List ways to monitor vSphere Pod utilization • Identify how to monitor vSphere Pod performance • Explain vSphere with Tanzu control plane certificate management • Identify the various vSphere with Tanzu logs • List the steps to generate a vSphere with Tanzu support bundle • Explain how to use SSH to connect to the Supervisor control plane nodes
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Team of lecturers
Our team - consisting of more than 50 instructors - offers a full range of technological knowledge in the field of routing, switching, security, collaboration and data centers. The expertise of instructors is evidenced by a range of top-level international certifications.
The uniqueness of our lecturers lies mainly in their extensive experience in connection with each project, allowing them to respond very flexibly to any question or suggestion from students, and to pass on their practical knowledge to the participants of these courses. Thanks to the synergy of the company’s reliable operation and many years of experience, we have been very flexible in responding to the changes prepared in the Cisco field, so we can guarantee you a wide range of certified courses that enable you and your colleagues to acquire the necessary know-how for future certification tests.
In addition to the certified trainings, we offer special courses that are focused primarily on the development of the necessary configuration skills.
Karel Pouzar
Senior Solution Architect - Cloud
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, AWS Authorized Instructor Champion Cisco CCIE R&S #20198, CCNP Ent, CCNP SP
Karel is a Senior Solution Architect for Cloud at Alef. He has long been involved in infrastructure and its virtualization in large networks and data centres of service providers. In recent years, he has been involved in the design and implementation of hybrid Cloud solutions.
He is an avid user and promoter of new technologies, which he capitalizes on as a Cloud Ambassador for the Expert Centre's Infrastructure Team. At the Alef Group, he is the lead trainer for AWS training, where he’s the AWS Authorised Instructor Champion.
Jan Kopřiva
Team lead CSIRT - incident response and offensive security
Multiple certifications & M.Sc. in Cyber security, Multiple certifications & B.Sc. in Education and teaching, Author of numerous security courses
Jan Kopřiva is the team lead of an incident response and offensive security team at ALEF Group and an Incident Handler with the renowned SANS Internet Storm Center. Jan started his career as a blue teamer, but slowly moved into offensive security as well. His current professional interests lie mainly in the areas of security, which traditionally fall within the purview of purple teams. He has authored multiple security courses as well as numerous research papers and articles focused on different aspects of cyber security and he regularly speaks at security conferences and other industry events.
Peter Frolo
Systems Engineer
CCSI# 35715, CCNP Enterprise, SD-WAN Specialist, Devnet Associate
Peter works at ALEF Zero as a systems engineer in the SPRS team. His job is mainly to design and implement network solutions from Cisco's Enterprise class portfolio, based on various Catalyst (9K, 8K) and ISR network elements. He specializes primarily in Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology, in which Peter is a certified SD-WAN Implementation Specialist. He also participated in the first implementation of SD-WAN technology at ALEF. Peter also works as a certified Cisco instructor with many years of experience.
Jan Janovic
Team Leader, DC-NET
Double CCIE DC|R&S #55858, CCNP DevNet, CCSI #35493, AWS Solution Architect and Developer Associate
Honza is a Datacenter Networking Teamleader at Alef. Together with his team, he specializes in a variety of networking solutions, primarily built on the Cisco Nexus switch platform - traditional vPC architecture, VXLAN BGP EVPN factories, and Cisco ACI. He also focuses on analytical tools, programmability and the automation of all these solutions, as well as their integration with the public cloud. In 2020, he became the Alef Group's first holder of the new CCNP DevNet certification, and also received the DevNet500 award for being among the top 500 DevNet certified engineers worldwide. In 2021 he became the only Double CCIE holder in the ALEF group, and the first in the world to pass any new version of the CCIE exam following changes to Cisco's certification program in February 2020. Honza has logged more than 1,000 hours in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
Jiří Šolc
Enterprise/Solution Architect
CCDA, CCNP Collaboration, AWS, ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate, IPMA
Jirka works at Alef as an Enterprise/Solution Architect, and is responsible for the comprehensive development of ICT solutions for key customers. He has over 10 years’ experience in technical, consulting and management practice. He has been involved in the design, implementation and management of a number of infrastructure, security, communications and digital transformation projects.
His specialties include the interconnection of the business and ICT worlds through Enterprise and Solution Architecture. This involves extensive communication with people in different roles across roles and organisational structures, the analysis of complex ICT environments, the preparation of projects including advocacy for their benefits, budgets, and interdependencies, and overall strategic ICT development planning. You will see him regularly speaking at conferences and workshops.
Filip Pávek
Senior Security Architect
CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, CCNA CyberOps, C|EH, CCSI #35271
Filip works at Alef as a Security Architect and is responsible for consulting, designing solutions, and leading security-technology focused projects. He gained his technical experience as a system engineer, first in Routing & Switching and then mainly in security. Filip is also a certified Cisco instructor, so you could meet him in your educational activities at our training centre. His passion for self-education and spreading technical awareness is also demonstrated by his having been a lecturer at Cisco Academy for over 10 years.
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