Description

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, vSphere Pods, Supervisor Services, and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ clusters. You will also gain experience with day 2 operations and life cycle management of a vSphere with Tanzu environment.

Product Alignment

• VMware vSphere® 8 Update 1
• VMware NSX® Advanced Load Balancer™ 22.1.3
• VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ 2.0

Learning Objectives

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
• Describe vSphere Pod capabilities and components
• 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 and manage virtual machines using the VM Service
• 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

Prerequisites

• Experience deploying and managing vSphere
• Understanding of Kubernetes and the Kubernetes cluster architecture

Attending one of the following courses is recommended:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• Kubernetes Fundamentals and Cluster Operations

Who Should Attend

vSphere administrators and platform operators who are responsible for deploying and managing workloads and services in vSphere with Tanzu