VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.3]
This five-day course focuses on installing, configuring and managing VMware vRealize® Automation™. Learn how vRealize Automation can be used to automate the deployment of virtual machines, applications, and custom IT services across multiple data center and hybrid cloud environments.
The course explains how to manage both on-premise systems and cloud services. This course demonstrates how vRealize Automation Service Broker can aggregate content in native formats from multiple clouds and platforms into a common catalog.
The course also covers interfacing vRealize Automation with other systems using VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ and how to use vRealize Automation to manage Kubernetes systems and leverage other systems. The course also covers integrating with Terraform and using SaltStack as a configuration management tool.
COD: VRAICM83
CATEGORY: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vRealize Automation
This course is recommended if you want to obtain the following certification:
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Design
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following courses:
It is helpful to have experience working at the command line.
This course requires the student to be able to do the following without assistance or guidance before enrolling in the course:
- Create VMware vCenter Server® objects, such as data centers and folders.
- Create a virtual machine using a wizard or template.
- Modify the hardware of a virtual machine
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® vMotion®.
- Migrate a virtual machine with VMware vSphere® Storage vMotion®.
- Configure and manage a vSphere DRS cluster with resource pools.
- Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster.
If you are unable to perform all of these tasks, VMware recommends that you complete one of the prerequisite courses before enrolling in VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage.
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Describe the vRealize Automation architecture and use cases in cloud environments.
- Manage vRealize Automation entities on VMware and third-party virtual and cloud infrastructures.
- Configure and manage cloud accounts, projects, flavor mappings, image mappings, network profiles, storage profiles, volumes, tags and services.
- Create, edit, manage and deploy Cloud templates
- Connect to a Kubernetes cluster and manage namespaces.
- Customize virtual machines and services with cloudConfig
- Configure and manage the Service Broker
- Configure and manage vRealize Orchestrator ABX actions, custom properties, event broker subscriptions, and workflows.
- Integration with vRealize Orchestrator
- Installare vRealize Automation con Lifecycle Configuration Manager
- Describe cloud automation services (Cloud Assembly and Code Stream).
- Integrare Cloud Assembly con Terraform e SaltStack.
- Use logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot vRealize Automation.
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 vRealize Automation Overview and Architecture
- Describe the purpose and features of vRealize Automation
- Describe the vRealize Automation architecture
- Describe the use of VMware Workspace ONE® AccessTM
- Describe the relationship between Kubernetes clusters, containers, and vRealize Automation services.
- Describe the CLI commands for managing vRealize Automation 8 clusters.
- Describe Cloud Assembly
- Describe the Service Broker
- Describe the code flow
3 Installing vRealize Automation
- List the different types of vRealize Automation deployments
- Describe the purpose of the vRealize easy installer
- Describe the vRealize Automation installation process
4 Authentication and Authorization
- Identify the stages of integrating Workspace One with Active Directory.
- Describe the features of Workspace One
- Describe the user roles available in vRealize Automation
- Identify the main tasks performed by each user role
- Define custom roles
- Configure branding and multitenancy
5 Basic initial setup
- Quickly create a basic setup with a cloud account, cloud zone, project, flavor mapping, and image mapping.
6 Modelli cloud VMware
- Setting up and deploying a basic cloud model
- Create cloud models that can run on any cloud.
- Use cloudConfig to run commands, install software, and create users.
- Use YAML for inputs, variables, and conditional distributions.
7 Tags and storage configuration
- Configurare i tag
- Describe the different types of tags
- Manage tags
- Configure archiving profiles
- Use storage tags and profiles
8 NSX-T Data Center Integration
- List NSX-T Data Center features and use cases
- Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture and components
- Integrare NSX-T Data Center con vRealize Automation
- List the network profiles supported in vRealize Automation.
- Use NSX-T Data Center components to design a multi-tier Cloud Template application
- Identify the network and security options available in Design Canvas.
- Create and manage networks and security groups on demand.
- Configure NSX-T Day 2 Actions
9 Integration with public clouds
- Set up and use VMware Cloud Foundation accounts
- Set up and use an AWS cloud account
- Setting up and using an Azure cloud account
- Setting up and using a Google Cloud Platform cloud account
10 Using Service Broker to manage the catalog
- Release of a VMware cloud model
- Define content source and content sharing
- Define service broker policy enforcement
- Use custom forms for catalog items
11 Extensibility of vRealize Automation
- Describe extensibility
- Use event arguments
- Create a subscription
- Invoke a vRealize Orchestrator workflow
- Create ABX actions
12 Using code flow
- Introduction to Code Stream
- The CI/CD process
- GitLab integration with Code Stream and Cloud Assembly
- Use Code Stream to install the software
13 Using Terraform
- Integrate Cloud Assembly with Terraform
- Use Terraform with a VMware cloud model
- Use Terraform with Code Stream
14 Using Kubernetes clusters
- Introduction to Kubernetes
- Connect to an existing Kubernetes cluster
- VMware Tanzu™ Grid Integrated Edition integration
- Create a supervisor namespace as a catalog item
15 Using SaltStack for configuration management
- Introduction to SaltStack with vRealize Automation
- Use SaltStack for software distribution
- Use SaltStack for configuration management
- Use SaltStack with event driven orchestration
16 Troubleshooting and Integrating vRealize Automation
- Location of logs
- Use of the activity
- Deployment history tracking
- Basic troubleshooting
- CLI commands
- Collecting logs (VAMI console)
- Integration with VMware vRealize® Log Insight
- Integration with vRealize Operations
- Migrating vRealize Automation 7.x to 8
Duration – 5 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
