Overview
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 environmen
Skills Covered
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
Who Should Attend
- vSphere administrators and platform operators who are responsible for deploying and managing workloads and services in vSphere with Tanzu
Course Curriculum
Prerequisites
- Experience deploying and managing vSphere
- Understanding of Kubernetes and the Kubernetes cluster architecture
Attending one of the following courses is recommended:
Course Modules
Exam & Certification
The VMware Certified Professional – Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations (VCP-TKO) certification validates an individual’s skills in areas such as deploying and configuring Kubernetes clusters, managing containerized workloads, troubleshooting common issues, and using VMware Tanzu products and technologies to manage Kubernetes environments.
This certification is designed for IT professionals who specialize in managing and operating Kubernetes environments using VMware Tanzu. Job-roles associated with this certification include Kubernetes administrators, platform operators, and cloud administrators.
