VMware vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy and Manage [V7]

During this 3-day course, you focus on deploying and managing VMware vSphere® with Tanzu. You learn about how vSphere with Tanzu can be used to orchestrate the delivery of Kubernetes clusters and containerized applications in a vSphere environment.

Duration

3 days

Audience

Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vSphere with Tanzu

Prerequisites

This course requires completion the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage OR VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale

AND

• VMware NSX-T Data Center: Install, Configure, Manage

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 vSphere with Tanzu: Deploy & Manage.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu and use cases in on-premises environments

• Deploy vSphere with Tanzu

• Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control

• Describe the VMware NSX® networking requirements for vSphere with Tanzu.

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu on NSX-T Data Center

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere Distributed Switch

• Create and manage vSphere with Tanzu namespaces

• Deploy and run container applications on vSphere with Tanzu

• Deploy and configure Harbor

• Describe the VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™ service

• Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster

• Deploy and run container applications on a Tanzu Kubernetes Grid cluster

• Describe the vSphere with Tanzu lifecycle

• Use logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot vSphere with Tanzu

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 Introduction to Containers and Kubernetes

• Describe virtual machines and containers

• Describe container hosts

• Describe container engines

• Describe Dockerfile

• Describe container images

• Describe image registry

• Describe the purpose and functionality of Kubernetes

• Describe YAML manifest files

• Explain pods

• Explain Replica Sets

• Explain services

• Explain deployments

• Explain network policies

3 Introduction to vSphere with Tanzu

• Introduce the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

• Introduce the VMware Tanzu™ portfolio

• Describe the purpose and functionality of vSphere with Tanzu

• Describe the capabilities of vSphere with Tanzu

• Describe the components of vSphere with Tanzu

• Contrast vSphere with Tanzu to traditional Kubernetes

• Describe the requirements for vSphere with Tanzu

• Describe the NSX components required for vSphere with Tanzu

• Describe the network topology of vSphere with Tanzu

• Explain the networking requirements of vSphere with Tanzu

• Compare NSX networking objects with Kubernetes networking objects

• Describe the kubectl command line interface

4 vSphere with Tanzu Core Services

• Explain the architecture of the vSphere with Tanzu core services

• Describe the use cases of vSphere with Tanzu

• Enable vSphere with Tanzu

• Deploy Harbor Registry

• Describe a vSphere with Tanzu namespace

• Describe resource quotas

• Explain authentication and authorization to vSphere with Tanzu

• Create a namespace

• Use kubectl to interact with vSphere with Tanzu

• Describe using kubectl pod deployment

• Explain scaling a pod deployment

• Explain deleting pods

• Use kubectl to deploy a pod

• Use kubectl to scale a pod

• Describe a Container Storage Interface

• Explain VM Storage Policies and Persistent Volumes

• Monitor Cloud Native Storage

• Create a Persistent Volume

• Describe the NSX Container Plugin

• Explain Supervisor Cluster Network Topology

• Explain Container Objects in NSX

• Describe Kubernetes Services

• Describe Kubernetes Network Policies

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu on vSphere Distributed Switch

• Describe Harbor Image Registry

• Explain Harbor integration with vSphere with Tanzu

• Enable Harbor

• Push container images to Harbor

• Deploy containers from Harbor

5 VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service

• Introduce Kubernetes Cluster API

• Explain Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service

• Describe the use cases for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters

• Describe enabling Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters

• Deploy a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster

• Scale a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster

• Explain the life cycle of Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters

• Deploy pods to a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster

• Describe monitoring of Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters

6 Monitoring and Troubleshooting

• Describe the monitoring tools for vSphere with Tanzu

• Describe the troubleshooting tools for vSphere with Tanzu

• Describe VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ integration

• Describe VMware Tanzu Mission Control

• Describe the integration between vSphere with Tanzu and VMware Tanzu Mission Control

• Describe vCenter Server events

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu events

• Describe gathering vSphere with Tanzu support log bundles

7 vSphere with Tanzu Life Cycle

• Introduce Kubernetes version

• Explain Kubernetes release cadence

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu life cycle

• Describe NSX component life cycle

• Describe vSphere with Tanzu Certificate Management