I. Overview:

The VMware Certified Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator (VCP-VCF Admin) certification validates the skills required to deploy, manage, and support private cloud environments built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). This certification is designed for IT professionals expanding from traditional infrastructure roles to cloud administration. Candidates for this certification includes professionals responsible for implementing and maintaining VCF infrastructure, ensuring it meets organizational service level objectives for availability, performance, and security. By achieving this certification, professionals demonstrate their ability to effectively operate VCF environments.

II. Duration: 56 hour (7 days)

III. Objectives:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the architecture, core components, and operational principles of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as a private cloud platform.
• Describe the value proposition, use cases, and design considerations of Private Cloud based on VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Deploy and configure core VCF infrastructure components, including vCenter, ESXi, vSAN, and networking components within a VCF environment.
• Deploy and manage Workload Domains, including compute, storage, networking, and Supervisor configuration.
• Perform day-to-day administrative and lifecycle management tasks in VMware Cloud Foundation, including identity management, RBAC, licensing, certificates, passwords, and upgrades.
• Monitor and operate VMware Cloud Foundation using VCF Operations, VCF Network Operations, VCF Storage Operations, and VCF Operations for Logs.
• Configure alerting, dashboards, reports, policies, and compliance monitoring within VCF Operations.
• Consume cloud services and automate infrastructure using VCF Automation, including multi-tenancy, organizational governance, provider networking, content libraries, and extensibility.
• Understand and manage Supervisor-based services and Kubernetes integration within VMware Cloud Foundation.
• Apply scenario-based knowledge aligned with the VCP-VCF Administrator exam blueprint, preparing students for both certification and real-world VCF administration tasks.

IV. Intended Audience:

• System administrators
• Systems engineers

V. Prerequisites:

• Students should have a minimum of one year of experience working in IT and should have foundational knowledge of Kubernetes and general enterprise IT topics including, but not limited to, hardware, storage, networking, DNS, NTP, and certificates.
• In addition, students should have at least six months of experience working with either VCF or the individual VCF components. Students may occasionally need to research advanced VCF topics (such as command-line utilities) or request assistance to troubleshoot complex scenarios. Students possess most of the knowledge outlined in the exam sections of the exam blueprint.

VI. Course outlines:

1. IT Architectures, Technologies, Standards

2. VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals

2.1. Private Cloud Vision

• Describe the principles of Private Cloud
• Identify the use cases for Private Cloud
• Identify the value proposition for Private Cloud

2.2. VMware Compute Fundamentals

• Given a scenario, deploy and configure VCF compute components (vCenter and ESX)
• Given a scenario, configure a vSphere Cluster
• Given a scenario, deploy and configure virtual machines
• Given a scenario, manage a virtual machine through vCenter

2.3. VMware Storage Fundamentals

• Given a scenario, configure vSphere storage
• Given a scenario, describe the use cases for VMware vSAN ESA or VMware vSAN OSA
• Given a scenario, deploy a VMware vSAN cluster
• Given a scenario, configure vSAN Storage policies
• Given a scenario, identify the options for Resilience and Data Availability in VMware vSAN
• Given a scenario, describe the purpose of vSAN Space Efficiency

2.4. VMware Network Fundamentals

• Given a scenario, differentiate between VCF networking components
• Given a scenario, configure virtual networking fabrics and features
• Given a scenario, configure virtual networking connectivity and routing
• Given a scenario, configure virtual networking services

3. Plan and Design the VMware by Broadcom Solution

4. Deploy, Configure, and Operate VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

4.1. VCF: Deploy and Configure

• Identify the components of a VCF Deployment
• Given a scenario identify the appropriate VMware Cloud Foundation deployment models
• Given a scenario, describe the deployment of a VMware Cloud Foundation-based private cloud
• Given a scenario, identify the additional components required to complete the deployment of a VMware Cloud Foundation-based private cloud
• Given a scenario, describe the deployment of and configure a VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Network Gateway
• Given a scenario, describe the deployment of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Networking
• Given a scenario, describe the deployment of a Workload Domain in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
• Given a scenario, configure Workload Domain storage
• Given a scenario, configure Supervisor within a Workload Domain

4.2. VCF: Manage

• Given a scenario, differentiate between the Fleet Management capabilities in VCF Operations
• Given a scenario, configure Identity Management and Role-based Access Control (RBAC) in VMware Cloud Foundation
• Given a scenario, configure license management within VMware Cloud Foundation
• Given a scenario, configure certificate management within VMware Cloud Foundation
• Given a scenario, configure Password Management within VMware Cloud Foundation
• Given a scenario, identify the tasks and processes required to complete the import of an existing vCenter into VMware Cloud Foundation
• Given a scenario, manage the lifecycle of VMware Cloud Foundation

4.3. VCF: Operations

• Given a scenario, identify the use case for VCF Network Operations and VCF Operations (Logs)
• Given a scenario, describe the cluster components and deployment options of VCF Operations
• Given a scenario, differentiate between metrics and properties
• Given a scenario, create custom Views and Reports in VCF Operations
• Given a scenario, create and share dashboards in VCF Operations
• Given a scenario, configure Alerting in VCF Operations
• Given a scenario, monitor log events in VCF Operations
• Given a scenario, monitor VMware Cloud Foundation components using VCF Health and Diagnostics
• Given a scenario, monitor networks using VCF Network Operations
• Given a scenario, monitor vSAN storage using VCF Storage Operations
• Given a scenario, configure VCF Operations policies
• Given a scenario, monitor application using VCF Operations
• Given a scenario, monitor security hardening and compliance using VCF Operations
• Given a scenario, configure configuration drift in VCF Operations

4.4. VCF: Consume and Automate

• Given a scenario, identify the use case for VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, describe the components and deployment options of VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, configure a Region in VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, configure multi-organizational tenancy in VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, configure Provider Networking in VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, configure a provider content library in VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, complete tasks as an organizational administrator in VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, configure organizational networks in VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, create and manage content in VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, use extensibility to automate business processes in VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, create and manage organizational governance policies in VCF Automation
• Given a scenario, describe the deployment of Supervisor-based Services in VMware Cloud Foundation