VMware Cloud on AWS: Deploy and Manage 2019 – On Demand

Course Overview

This three-day course teaches you skills for deploying and managing a VMware Cloud™ on AWS infrastructure. Through a mix of lecture and interactive, simulated labs, you deploy and manage the VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware vSphere® features that build a foundation for a hybrid infrastructure. You also discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect.

Course Objectives

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

• Describes the architecture of VMware Cloud on AWS
• Deploy a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC and Virtual Machines (VMs)
• Configure internal, external, and inter-SDDC networking
• Describe and configure storage integrations and solutions for VMware Cloud on AWS
• Configure a connection between an on-premises vSphere SDDC and a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
• Configure the scale-up and scale-down of a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
• Migrate virtual machines between on-premises vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs
• Describes additional services that add value to a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
• Describes lifecycle, troubleshooting scenarios, and support resources for a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

Target Audience

• Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators
  

Course Modules

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Identifying additional resources for after this course
• Identifying other VMware Education Offerings

2 Introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS
• Why choose VMware Cloud on AWS
• Overview of VMware Cloud on AWS
• Billing and pricing

3 Managing the SDDC and Creating Virtual Machines
• Creating and managing users in VMware Cloud on AWS
• Deploying and accessing SDDCs
• Creating Virtual Machines

4 Networking in VMware Cloud on AWS
• Overview of VMware Cloud on AWS networking
• Networking design of VMware Cloud on AWS
• Networking operations
• Inter-SDDC networking

5 Storage on VMware Cloud on AWS
• vSAN in VMware Cloud on AWS
• Stretched clusters
• External storage integrations and solutions

6 Working with On-Premises vSphere
• Hybrid linked mode
• Hybrid Cloud Extension
• Migrating Virtual Machines
• vSphere permissions

7 Scaling the SDDC and Managing Hosts
• Sizing the SDDC
• Cluster management
• Adding and removing hosts
• Host remediation

8 Resource Management and Availability
• VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™ and Elastic DRS for VMware Cloud™ on AWS
• vSphere HA

9 Using Other VMware Products with the SDDC
• Site Recovery Add-On Service
• VMware Horizon®
• VMware vRealize® Suite
• VMware Cloud Marketplace™
• Using APIs with VMware Cloud on AWS

10 Maintaining and Troubleshooting VMware Cloud on AWS
• Best maintenance practices
• Support and staying up to date
• Common troubleshooting steps
• Next steps to use VMware Cloud on AWS