Descrizione
Intended Audience
Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vRealize Automation
Certifications
This course is recommended if you aim to achieve the following certification:
- VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Data Center Virtualization (VCAP-DCV) Design
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following courses:
Experience working at the command line is helpful.
This course requires that a student be able to perform the following tasks with no assistance or guidance before enrolling in this course:
- Create VMware vCenter Server® objects, such as data centers and folders
- Create a virtual machine using a wizard or a template
- Modify a virtual machine’s hardware
- 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 cannot perform all of these tasks, VMware recommends that you complete one of the prerequisite courses before enrolling in VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage.
Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet 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, modify, manage, and deploy Cloud Templates
- Connect to a Kubernetes Cluster and manage namespaces
- Customize services and virtual machines with cloudConfig
- Configure and manage the Service Broker
- Configure and manage ABX actions, custom properties, event broker subscriptions, and vRealize Orchestrator workflows
- Integrate with vRealize Orchestrator
- Install vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Configuration Manager
- Describe Cloud Automation Services (Cloud Assembly and Code Stream).
- Integrate Cloud Assembly with Terraform and SaltStack
- Use logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot vRealize Automation
Outline
1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 vRealize Automation Overview and Architecture
• Describe the purpose and functionality 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 CLI commands for vRealize Automation 8 cluster management
• Describe Cloud Assembly
• Describe Service Broker
• Describe Code Stream
3 Installing vRealize Automation
• List the different vRealize Automation deployment types
• Describe the purpose of vRealize easy installer
• Describe the vRealize Automation installation process
4 Authentication and Authorization
• Identity the steps involved in integrating Workspace One with Active Directory
• Describe features of Workspace One
• Describe the user roles available in vRealize Automation
• Identify the key tasks performed by each user role
• Define custom roles
• Configure branding and multitenancy
5 Basic Initial Configuration
• Quickly create a basic configuration with a cloud account, cloud zone, project, flavor mapping, and image
mapping.
6 VMware Cloud Templates
• Configure and deploy a basic cloud template
• Create cloud templates that can run on any cloud
• Use cloudConfig to run commands, install software, and create users
• Use YAML for inputs, variables, and conditional deployments
7 Tags and Storage Configuration
• Configure tags
• Describe different types of tags
• Manage tags
• Configure storage profiles
• Use tags and storage profiles
8 Integrating NSX-T Data Center
• List the capabilities and use cases of NSX-T Data Center
• Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture and components
• Integrate NSX-T Data Center with vRealize Automation
• List the supported network profiles in vRealize Automation
• Use NSX-T Data Center components to design a multitier application Cloud Template
• Identify the network and security options available in design canvas
• Create and manage on-demand networks and security groups
• Configure NSX-T day 2 actions
9 Integrating with Public Clouds
• Configure and use VMware Cloud Foundation accounts
• Configure and use an AWS cloud account
• Configure and use an Azure cloud account
• Configure and use a Google Cloud Platform cloud account
10 Using Service Broker for Catalog Management
• Release a VMware Cloud Template™
• Define content source and content sharing
• Define Service Broker policy enforcement
• Use custom forms for catalog items
11 vRealize Automation Extensibility
• Describe Extensibility
• Use event topics
• Create a subscription
• Call a vRealize Orchestrator workflow
• Create ABX actions
12 Using Code Stream
• Introduction to Code Stream
• The CI/CD process
• Integrate GitLab with Code Stream and Cloud Assembly
• Use Code Stream to install software
13 Using Terraform
• Integrate Cloud Assembly with Terraform
• Use Terraform with a VMware Cloud Template
• Use Terraform with Code Stream
14 Using Kubernetes Clusters
• Introduction to Kubernetes
• Connect to an existing Kubernetes Cluster
• Integrate VMware Tanzu™ Grid Integrated Edition
• Create a Supervisor Namespace as a catalog item
15 Using SaltStack for Configuration Management
• Introduction SaltStack with vRealize Automation
• Use SaltStack for software deployment
• Use SaltStack for configuration management
• Use SaltStack with event-driven orchestration
16 vRealize Automation Troubleshooting and Integration
• Location of logs
• Using Activity
• Monitoring deployment history
• 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
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere® 7.01
- VMware vRealize Automation 8.3
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.3
- VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager™ 8.3
- VMware NSX-T™ Data Center 3.1
