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VMware vRealize Automation: Advanced Features and Troubleshooting [V8.x]

Duration: 5 Days (40 Hours)

VMware vRealize Automation: Advanced Features and Troubleshooting [V8.x] Course Overview:

Enroll in the 5-day VMware vRealize Automation: Advanced Features and Troubleshooting [V8.x] certification training course offered by TrainCrest. This course is designed as a follow-on to the VMware vRealize Automation Install, Configure, Manage course.

Throughout this training, you will dive deeper into the advanced features of vRealize Automation. The course will focus on deploying user systems and integrating vRealize Automation with other platforms. Additionally, you will learn how to deploy an enterprise-level cluster environment using Lifecycle Manager (LCM).

The course combines hands-on labs and interactive lectures to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the advanced features of vRealize Automation. Through practical exercises, you will gain practical experience in deploying user systems, integrating with external platforms, and setting up cluster environments.

By completing this training course, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to utilize the advanced features of vRealize Automation effectively. You will have the expertise to deploy user systems, integrate with external platforms, and manage enterprise-level cluster environments.

Enroll today to enhance your capabilities in vRealize Automation and gain the necessary skills to deploy advanced features and troubleshoot issues. This course will enable you to maximize the potential of vRealize Automation and ensure seamless automation and management of your IT infrastructure.

Target Audience:

This training course is recommended for experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for using the advanced features of vRealize Automation in enterprise deployments

Learning Objectives

  • After completing this course, you will be able to:
  • Describe and configure the vRealize Automation in a clustered enterprise deployment using VMware vRealize® Suite Lifecycle Manager™
  • Scale VMware Identity Manager™ to support High Availability.
  • Configure security certificates in vRealize Automation from external Certificate Authorities.
  • Describe the clustered deployment architecture, including Kubernetes pods and services.
  • Create and configure advanced blueprints with complex YAML and cloudConfig.
  • Use vRealize Automation advanced blueprints to deploy an actual 2-tier DB-Server using MySQL and phpMyAdmin.
  • Practice troubleshooting techniques with advanced YAML blueprints in vRealize Automation.
  • Use advanced VMware NSX-TTM Data Center networking features including NAT, routed networks, load balancers, security groups, and tags.
  • Use VMware Code Stream™ to integrate vRealize Automation with Kubernetes.
  • Create Code Stream pipelines.
  • Create and use Ansible playbooks that integrate with vRealize Automation.
  • Configure vRealize Automation to integrate with Puppet.
  • Configure and use ABX actions to create day-2 actions and interface with PowerShell scripts.
  • Use vracli commands, log files, and VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ to troubleshoot vRealize Automation and vRealize Automation deployments.

 Module 1: Course Introduction
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Use advanced YAML and cloudConfig to deploy a functioning 2-tier application with a phpMyAdmin front-end server and a MySQL database server
  • Use troubleshooting techniques to debug problems in advanced YAML blueprints
  • List the log files that can aid in troubleshooting blueprint deployment
  • Use NSX-T advanced features in blueprints
  • Interfacing to IPAMs
  • Use NSX-T Data Center NAT in blueprints
  • Use NSX-T Data Center routed networks
  • Use NSX-T Data Center load balancers
  • Use NSX-T Data Center security groups
  • Use tags with NSX-T Data Center network profiles
  • Creating Day-2 Actions with vRealize Orchestrator workflows
  • Troubleshoot vRealize Orchestrator cluster issues
  • Use vRealize Orchestrator to add computer objects to Active Directory when vRealize Automation deploys blueprints
  • Use a tagging approach to vRealize Orchestrator workflows
  • Use dynamic forms with vRealize Orchestrator
  • Determine when to use ABX and when to use vRealize Orchestrator
  • Using ABX to create day-2 Actions
  • Calling PowerShell from ABX
  • Define basic Kubernetes terminologies such as pod, service, and deployment
  • List various options to integrate vRealize Automation with Kubernetes
  • Connect to an existing native Kubernetes cluster
  • Integrate Kubernetes with VMware® Pivotal Container Service
  • Create and use CI/CD pipelines
  • Use the Code Stream user interface
  • Add states and tasks to a Code Stream pipeline
  • Define Git, GitLab, and GitHub
  • Configure GitLab to support vRealize Automation blueprints
  • Integrate vRealize Automation with GitLab
  • Manage blueprints using GitLab source control
  • Describe the use case of Ansible and Ansible Tower
  • Connect to Ansible Tower
  • Use Ansible playbooks
  • Use Puppet in configuration management
  • Use vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager in a clustered deployment
  • Configure External Certificates
  • Configure NSX-T Data Center load balancer
  • Install or scale out VMware Identity Manager to support High Availability
  • Install or scale vRealize Automation using clustered deployment
  • List of Kubernetes Pods
  • The vRealize Automation Kubernetes architecture
  • Relationship of Kubernetes pods to services
  • Logs and their locations
  • Blueprint deployment workflow with Kubernetes service interaction
  • Backup strategies and potential problems
  • vracli commands and when to use them
  • Check the status of Kubernetes pods and services
  • Correct the state of pods and services
  • Diagnose and solve vRealize Automation infrastructure problems
  • Diagnose and solve vRealize Automation failures to deploy blueprints and services
  • Use vRealize Log Insight to troubleshoot

This course requires completion of the following course:

  • VMware vRealize Install Configure Manage [V8.x]
  • 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 VMware vSphere® DRS cluster with resource pools.
  • Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster.
  • Create and deploy a simple blueprint in vRealize Automation 8.x
  • Use cloudConfig in vRealize Automation blueprints
  • Configure infrastructure in vRealize Automation 8.x

Recommended Training Courses

  • VMware vRealize Automation: Orchestration and Extensibility [V8.1]
  • VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.0]
  • VMware Horizon 7: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.10]

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