VMware vSphere Foundation Bootcamp: VCP-VVF Admin in 5 Days

VMware vSphere Foundation: Build, Manage, and Operate [V9.0] Bootcamp Overview

This vSphere Foundation bootcamp is an accelerated, instructor-led delivery of the official VMware vSphere Foundation: Build, Manage, and Operate [V9.0] course (VSFBMO). Over five days with hands-on labs you learn to deploy, configure and run a VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 platform end to end: the architecture and licensing model, compute, networking and storage, provisioning and managing virtual machines, building clusters with vSphere DRS and vSphere HA, running vSAN, standing up vSphere Kubernetes Service through Supervisor, and operating the platform through VCF Operations metrics, views, reports, dashboards and alerts. The week closes on the deployment workflow itself and on lifecycle management with vSphere Lifecycle Manager and vCenter Update Planner.

Included is the exam voucher for VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Administrator (2V0-16.25), the exam behind VMware Certified Professional, VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator. Broadcom lists this course as the recommended course for that certification. The exam runs 135 minutes and 60 questions in English, using multiple choice and multiple choice multiple selection formats, with a passing score of 300. VCP-VVF Administrator is a current Broadcom certification on the VMware Cloud Foundation track, and it is the credential a vSphere administrator moves to now rather than the older data center virtualization path.

Who This vSphere Foundation Course Is For

VMware writes this course for system administrators, solution engineers, consultants, architects and support personnel. Broadcom is more specific about the certification: VCP-VVF Administrator is designed for IT professionals expanding from traditional infrastructure roles into cloud administration, responsible for implementing and maintaining VVF infrastructure so that it meets organisational service level objectives for availability, performance and security. In practice that means the vSphere administrators whose platform is being modernised to vSphere Foundation 9.0 around them, infrastructure engineers picking up vSAN and Kubernetes responsibilities alongside traditional virtualization, and operations staff who now live in VCF Operations and need a current credential rather than one tied to the previous generation of the product.

What You'll Learn in This VSFBMO Training

The camp follows the official VMware course outline. VMware publishes module objectives rather than percentage weightings for this course, so the modules below are the syllabus itself:

• vSphere Foundation overview and architecture: the key features and use cases of vSphere Foundation, its architecture and components, an introduction to VCF Operations, and navigating both the VCF Operations and vSphere user interfaces.
• License management: managing and assigning licenses, enabling VCF Operations integration for vCenter, and understanding license usage by product.
• vSphere Foundation compute: virtualization concepts and where vSphere sits in the software-defined data centre, vSphere architecture and use cases, the interfaces for accessing it, installing and configuring an ESXi host, and creating and organising vCenter inventory objects.
• vSphere Foundation networking: creating and configuring standard and distributed switches, the differences between them, and setting networking policies.
• vSphere Foundation storage: vSphere storage technologies and datastore types, Fibre Channel and iSCSI components and addressing, configuring iSCSI storage on ESXi, and creating and managing VMFS and NFS datastores.
• Deploying virtual machines: creating and provisioning VMs, the role of VMware Tools, managing VMs and their resources from the vSphere Client, cloning and guest customization specifications, and building local, published and subscribed content libraries.
• Virtual machine management: migrating VMs with vSphere vMotion and Storage vMotion, snapshot operations, and specifying CPU and memory shares, reservations and limits.
• Deploying and configuring vSphere clusters: creating a cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA, how DRS decides VM placement, the use cases for DRS settings, how HA responds to different failure types, network redundancy options, HA design considerations, and configuring an HA cluster.
• vSAN management: the features of vSAN, the key differences between vSAN OSA and vSAN ESA, the roles of the performance leg and capacity leg in ESA, ESA object health states, comparing RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6 space consumption, and identifying vSAN component states.
• vSphere Kubernetes Service overview: vSphere Supervisor architecture, use cases and deployment options, installing Supervisor, Supervisor storage, vSphere Zones and networking, configuring and managing a Supervisor, configuring vSphere Namespaces to host VKS clusters, and managing those clusters.
• VCF Operations metrics: the role of metrics in VCF Operations, creating and configuring views, reports and dashboards, configuring widget interactions, the purpose of alerts, the components of an alert definition, and creating static symptom definitions.
• vSphere Foundation deployment: preparing the infrastructure, the information the Planning and Preparation Workbook requires, the high-level deployment steps, downloading software in online and offline modes, the deployment workflow through the VCF Installer UI and JSON spec file, deploying and enabling the VCF Operations collector, VCF Operations for Logs and VCF Operations Orchestrator, and deploying the vCenter Server Appliance.
• Managing the vSphere Foundation lifecycle: the features of vCenter Update Planner, running vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, validating and updating ESXi hosts with it, and using it to upgrade VMware Tools and VM hardware.

Why Choose This vSphere Foundation Camp

vSphere Foundation 9.0 is not last year's vSphere with a new label: licensing, VCF Operations, vSAN ESA and the Kubernetes layer all work differently, and experience on the older product does not transfer cleanly. This camp teaches the current platform from the official courseware, and puts the certification that names it in reach in a single week.

• 5-day accelerated format, delivering the full official VMware course in one week.
• 95% first-attempt pass rate, with a retake voucher if you need it.
• Official VMware courseware (VSFBMO) and official VMware labs, taught by a certified instructor.
• VMware test voucher included, with no hidden exam fees.
• The recommended course for 2V0-16.25, the exam behind VMware Certified Professional, VMware vSphere Foundation Administrator.
• Vetted practice exam resources alongside the official hands-on labs.
• Live online delivery, so you certify without travelling.
• Classes run as scheduled, with no cancellations, so you can book time off with confidence.