VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy, Configure, Manage [V8] (VSTDCM8) (EN)
The VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy, Configure, Manage [V8] course is an intensive three-day training focused on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with VMware Tanzu® in a vSphere 8 environment. Participants will learn how vSphere with Tanzu provides services for deploying and managing virtual machines, vSphere Pods, Supervisor Services and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters. In addition, the course provides hands-on experience on “day 2” operations and lifecycle management of a vSphere environment with Tanzu.
COD: VSTDCM8
Category: VMware Tanzu
The course is aimed at experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vSphere with Tanzu.
Who Should Attend
Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vSphere with Tanzu.
Prerequisites:
- Experience in deploying and managing vSphere
- Understanding of Kubernetes and Kubernetes cluster architecture
Participation in one of the following courses is recommended:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7] or [V8]
- VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V7] or [V8]
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track [V7] or [V8]
- VMware vSphere: What’s New [V8]
- VMware vSphere: Manage and Operate [V7] or [V8]
Knowledge/Skills Upon Completion
At the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Describe vSphere with Tanzu and its architectures
- Enable vSphere with Tanzu
- Deploy and manage vSphere Pods and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters
- Implement and manage Supervisor Services
- Monitor and optimize the performance of vSphere with Tanzu
- Perform maintenance and upgrade operations for the vSphere with Tanzu environment
Course Introduction
- Course introduction and logistics.
- Course objectives.
Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes
- Differences between containers and virtual machines.
- Identifying the components of a container system.
- Listing the steps of a basic Docker workflow.
- Explaining the importance of Kubernetes.
- Identifying the basic architecture of Kubernetes.
- Describing a basic Kubernetes workflow.
Introduction to vSphere with Tanzu
- Overview of vSphere with Tanzu.
- Introduction to Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.
- Introduction to VMware Tanzu® Mission Control.
- Introduction to VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations.
- Purpose of vSphere with Tanzu.
- Identifying vSphere with Tanzu capabilities.
- Description of the vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor.
- Identifying the components of the vSphere with Tanzu Supervisor.
- Description of vSphere Namespaces.
- Overview of Supervisor Services.
- Introduction to the VM Service.
- Description of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters.
vSphere with Tanzu Infrastructure
- Discussion of storage concepts for vSphere with Tanzu.
- Description of storage policies.
- Introduction to content libraries.
- Explanation of Container Storage Interface plugin capabilities.
- Discussion of storage for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters.
- Description of vSAN Direct datastore for vSphere with Tanzu.
- Identification of the two networking stacks available for vSphere with Tanzu deployments.
- Listing the VDS components supported by vSphere with Tanzu.
- Listing the NSX components supported by vSphere with Tanzu.
- Overview of load balancing solutions supported by vSphere with Tanzu.
vSphere with Tanzu Architecture
- Description of Supervisor architecture.
- Listing deployment options for the Supervisor.
- Supervisor deployment requirements.
- Licensing requirements for the Supervisor.
- Description of vSphere Namespaces.
- vSphere Namespace resources and Kubernetes object limits.
- Definition of content libraries and VM images.
- Explanation of VM classes.
- Description of CLI tools for Kubernetes on vSphere.
- Available authentication types in vSphere with Tanzu.
- Explanation of vSphere privileges.
- Roles and permissions in vSphere Namespaces.
- Explanation of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid RBAC.
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid authentication methods.
- Listing services and workloads for vSphere with Tanzu.
- Supportability of services and workloads in vSphere with Tanzu based on Supervisor deployment types.
vSphere with Tanzu Workloads and Services
- Characteristics of vSphere Pods.
- Capabilities of vSphere Pods.
- Components of vSphere Pods.
- Concept of Supervisor Services.
- Supervisor Services catalog and available services.
- Adding and managing the lifecycle of Supervisor Services.
- Description of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters.
- Components of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.
- Options for deploying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters.
- Types of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload clusters.
- Requirements for deploying a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster.
- Description of the VM Service.
- Use cases for the VM Service.
- VM Service parameters.
- Requirements for deploying a VM using the VM Service.
Day 2 Operations
- Viewing Kubernetes namespace events.
- Methods for monitoring performance and usage of vSphere Pods, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters, and VMs.
- Managing control plane certificates for vSphere with Tanzu.
- Managing load balancer certificates.
- Prerequisites and steps for upgrading vSphere with Tanzu.
- Supervisor updates.
- vSphere Namespace updates.
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster update process.
- Steps for backing up vSphere with Tanzu components.
- How to back up a Supervisor.
- Definition of Velero Plugin for vSphere and standalone Velero.
- Steps to install Velero on workload clusters.
- Backing up and restoring vSphere with Tanzu workloads using the Velero CLI.
- Types of vSphere with Tanzu logs.
- How to generate a vSphere with Tanzu support bundle.
- Using SSH to connect to Supervisor control plane nodes.
Duration– 3 days
Delivery – Classroom, On Site, Remote
