VMware Cloud on AWS: Design, Configure, Manage 2023

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Course Overview

This four-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools for deploying and managing a VMware Cloud™ on AWS infrastructure. You will explore the common use cases of the VMware Cloud on AWS infrastructure that allows you to modernize, protect, and scale applications based on VMware vSphere® that leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS).

In this course, you are introduced to various rapid and easy migration options for moving workloads based on vSphere from on-prem to VMware Cloud on AWS. In addition, you are presented with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery™, which is a Disaster Recovery as-a-service (DRaaS) solution. This solution provides fast recovery capabilities that can be used to cost-effectively protect a broad set of your virtualized applications.

Who Should Attend

Experienced system administrators, system engineers, and system integrators

Course Objectives

    • Describe the architecture of VMware Cloud on AWS
    • Prepare and deploy the VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
    • Configure the scale-up and scale-down of a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
    • Access a VMware vCenter® configuration in VMware Cloud on AWS
    • Configure internal, external, and inter-SDDC networking
    • 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
    • Migrate VMs between on-premises vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs
    • Describe life cycle management, troubleshooting scenarios, and disaster recovery solutions for a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
    • Describe how VMware add-on solutions support a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC

Course Outline

Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS

  • Choosing VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Management and operational structure

VMware Cloud on AWS Platform and SDDC Deployment Preparation

  • Getting started with VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Preparing the AWS infrastructure for a VMware Cloud on AWS deployment
  • Setting up a VMware on Cloud AWS account
  • Billing and pricing on VMware Cloud services

Deploying and Scaling an SDDC

  • Deploying and examining SDDC configurations
  • Sizing the SDDC
  • SDDC cluster management
  • SDDC host management
  • Optimizing and maintaining an SDDC cluster using Elastic DRS for VMware Cloud on AWS

Accessing and Analyzing vCenter Configurations

  • Accessing vCenter in the Cloud SDDC
  • Creating virtual machines in the Cloud SDDC
  • Analyzing resource management settings in the SDDC
  • Exploring vSphere permissions on VMware Cloud on AWS
  • VMware Tanzu® for VMware Cloud on AWS

Networking in VMware Cloud on AWS

  • Internal SDDC network
  • SDDC Network Administration with NSX Manager
  • Networking and security options
  • Inter-SDDC networking

Storage on VMware Cloud on AWS

  • vSAN storage in VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Attaching external storage to a VM running on an SDDC

Working with On-Premises vSphere

  • Hybrid-linked mode
  • Migration solutions for VMware Cloud on AWS
  • VM migration with VMware HCX®

Maintaining and Troubleshooting VMware Cloud on AWS

  • Accessing API with VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Maintenance and support
  • Common troubleshooting steps

Disaster Recovery Solution

  • VMware Site Recovery™ add-on service
  • • VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery

Using Other VMware Products with the SDDC

  • VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs (formerly VMware vRealize® Log Insight™)
  • VMware Horizon® with VMware Cloud on AWS
  • VMware Aria Automation™ add-on (formerly VMware vRealize® Automation™)
  • Using VMware Aria Operations™ with VMware Cloud on AWS
  • Using VMware Aria Operations™ for Networks (formerly VMware vRealize® Network Insight™) with VMware Cloud on AWS

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This is a 4-day class

Price: $3,700.00

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