VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage

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DDLS - VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage

Length

5 days

Price

$5830.00 inc GST

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Overview

During this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vRealize® Automation™. You learn about how vRealize Automation can be used to automate the delivery of virtual machines, applications, and personalized IT services across different data centers and hybrid cloud environments.

The course covers how to manage both on-premise systems and cloud services. The course covers how vRealize Automation Service Broker can aggregate content in native formats from multiple clouds and platforms into a common catalog. This course also covers interfacing vRealize Automation with other systems using VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ and how to use vRealize Automation to manage Kubernetes systems and leverage systems like Ansible.

Product Alignment
• VMware vSphere® 6.7 U2
• VMware vRealize Automation 8.0
• VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.0
• VMware vRealize® Lifecycle Manager™ 8.0
• VMware NSX-T™ Data Center 2.4

Key Topics

Detailed Info

vRealize Automation Overview and Architecture
vRealize Automation Installation
Authentication and Authorization
Basic Initial Configuration
Creating and Deploying a Basic Blueprint
Tags and Storage Configuration
Advanced Blueprints
Integrating NSX-T Data Center
Cloud Accounts
Service Broker
Customization of Blueprints
vRealize Automation Extensibility

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Skills Gained

Key Topics

Target Audiences

Prerequisites

Skills Gained

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

Describe the vRealize Automation architecture and use cases in cloud environments
Manage vRealize Automation entities on VMware and third-party virtual and cloud infrastructures
Configure and manage Cloud Accounts, Projects, Flavor Mappings, Image Mappings, Network Profiles,
Storage Profiles, Volumes, Tags, and Services
Create, modify, manage, and deploy Blueprints
Connect to a Kubernetes Cluster and manage images and deployments
Customize services with CloudConfig
Configure and manage the Service Broker
Configure and manage ABX actions, custom properties, event broker subscriptions, and vRealize
Orchestrator workflows
Integrate with vRealize Orchestrator
Install vRealize Automation with Lifecycle Configuration Manager
Describe Cloud Automation Services (Cloud Assembly and Code Stream).
Use logs and CLI commands to monitor and troubleshoot vRealize Automation

Key Topics

1. Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2. vRealize Automation Overview and Architecture

Describe the purpose and functionality of vRealize Automation
Describe the vRealize Automation architecture
Describe the use of VMware Workspace ONE® AccessTM
Describe the relationship between Kubernetes clusters, containers, and vRealize Automation services
Describe CLI commands for vRealize Automation 8 cluster management
Describe Cloud Assembly
Describe Service Broker
Describe Code Stream

3. vRealize Automation Installation

List the different vRealize Automation deployment types
Explain the purpose of vRealize easy installer
Recognize the vRealize Automation installation process

4. Authentication and Authorization

Identity the steps involved in integrating Workspace One with Active Directory
Recognize features of Workspace One
Recognize the user roles available in vRealize Automation
Identify the key tasks performed by each user role

5. Basic Initial Configuration

Quickly create a basic configuration with a cloud account, cloud zone, project, flavor mapping, and image
mapping.

6. Creating and Deploying a Basic Blueprint

Configure a basic blueprint
Deploy a basic blueprint

7. Tags and Storage Configuration

Configure tags
Configure storage profiles
Describe volumes
Use tags and storage profiles in a blueprint

8. Advanced Blueprints

Use YAML coding in blueprints, including user inputs, text formatting, and conditional expressions
Create a blueprint for multiple clouds
Use iterative design and version control in blueprints
Use Cloud-Config

9. Integrating NSX-T Data Center

List the capabilities and use cases of NSX-T Data Center
Describe the NSX-T Data Center architecture and components
Integrate NSX-T Data Center with vRealize Automation
List the supported network profiles in vRealize Automation
Use NSX-T Data Center components to design a multitier application blueprint
Identify the network and security options available in design canvas

10. Cloud Accounts

Configure and use an AWS cloud account
Configure and use an Azure cloud account
Configure and use a Google Cloud Platform cloud account
Use VMware Marketplace

11. Service Broker

Describe the use case of Service Broker
Define content source and content sharing
Define Service Broker policy enforcement
Use custom forms for catalog items

12. Customization of Blueprints

Use CloudConfig and Cloud-Init
Customize the hostname
Create users
Install software
Manage the power state

13. vRealize Automation Extensibility

Describe ABX actions
Set custom properties
Create event topics
Create subscriptions
Create and use workflows
Integrate vRealize Automation with vRealize Orchestrator

Target Audiences

Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing vRealize Automation.

Prerequisites

This class requires completion of one of the following:

Experience with working at the command line is helpful.

The course material presumes that a student can 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 vSphere DRS cluster with resource pools.
Configure and manage a VMware vSphere® High Availability cluster.

If you cannot perform all of these tasks, VMware recommends that you complete one of the prerequisite courses before enrolling in VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage.

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