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7. VMware Cloud Director Content Libraries • Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization • Define catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations • Explain medias in VMware Cloud Director and its usage • Discuss vApp templates • Understand vApp template operations • Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVF) • Discuss organization VDC templates 8. VMware Cloud Director Networking • Discuss organization VDC networks • List the types of organization VDC networks • Describe the edge gateway services • Explore the services offered by the edge gateway • Discuss sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases • Discuss DHCP, NAT, load balancer, and firewall services on the edge gateway • Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT use cases • Discuss vApp networks • List the various types of vApp networks • Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks 9 VMware Cloud Director Storage and Compute • Describe named disks and shared named disks • Demonstrate how to attach and detach a named disk and a shared named disk • Describe methods of sharing the named disk • Discuss the implications of deleting VMs that have an attached named disk • Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted • Explain the storage policy capabilities • Demonstrate how VM sizing and placement policies are published • Discuss vCenter server and VMware Cloud Director IOPS storage policies usage • Discuss how to enable and use the storage IOPS limitation in VMware Cloud Director • Describe the storage policy supported entities 10. Extensibility and UI Additional Features • Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts, and quick search • Understand vcd-cli supported commands • Discuss various vcd-cli tools 11. VMware Cloud Director Resource Monitoring • Identify log locations for VMware Cloud Director • Manage vSphere and cloud resources from VMware Cloud Director • Understand monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director portals • Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager • Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager • Configure VMware Cloud Director Management Pack • Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports

VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage

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9. VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Management • Identify vSAN architecture and components • Recognize storage options for VMware Cloud Foundation • Recognize the supported storage options for each domain • Recognize the connectivity options for supplemental storage • Explain why vSAN is the best option for VMware Cloud Foundation storage • Recognize vSAN design considerations • Identify sizing and performance considerations that impact the storage design • Describe vSAN requirements for the management and workload domains • Define deduplication and compression • Discuss how to scale vSAN clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation • Explain how storage policies work with VMware Cloud Foundation vSAN clusters • Explain storage policy failure tolerance rules • Identify a VM storage policy compliance status • Relate storage policies to Kubernetes storage classes • Describe persistent volumes • Monitor Cloud Native Storage in the vSphere Client 10. Availability and Business Continuity • Identify steps in the SDDC Manager backup and restore process • Recognize the importance of external service availability • Describe native vSphere availability options • Identify steps in the NSX backup and restore process • Identify stretched cluster use cases • Identify stretched cluster components • Recognize stretched cluster requirements in VMware Cloud Foundation • Prepare and deploy a vSAN stretched cluster using APIs 11. VMware Cloud Foundation Certificate Management • Describe public key infrastructure (PKI) • Explain the purpose of certificate signing requests (CSRs) • List the available CA options in SDDC Manager • Describe how to view certificates • Explain how to generate a CSR • Describe how to replace and install certificates for VMware Cloud Foundation components • List the available CA options in SDDC Manager • Explain how to configure the Microsoft CA server • Describe how to install certificates issued by the Microsoft CA server • Explain how to add OpenSSL CA in SDDC Manager • Describe how to install certificates issued by OpenSSL CA • Explain how to install certificates issued by thirdparty CAs 12. VMware Cloud Foundation Life Cycle Management • Describe Life Cycle Management • List products that you can upgrade using VMware Cloud Foundation Lifecycle Manager • Describe the available options for online and offline bundle download using VMware Cloud Foundation Lifecycle Manager • Describe the role of vSphere Lifecycle Management in VMware Cloud Foundation • Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager Baselinebased and Image-based Clusters • Detail how and when to use cluster images • Explain how to import a cluster image • Explain how to extract a cluster image • Describe the importance of hardware support managers • Describe the upgrade prerequisites • Outline the upgrade precheck process • Describe the order of upgrade for VMware Cloud Foundation components • Explain how to upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation software and components 13. VMware Imaging Appliance • Identify the requirements for starting a deployment • List the options to image a host • Identify the key capabilities of the VMware Imaging Appliance • Explain how to use the VMware Imaging Appliance to image hosts 14. VMware Cloud Foundation Multisite Instance Federation • Recognize the benefits of the federation feature in VMware Cloud Foundation • Describe the federation feature and multisite management • Recognize ways a federation helps manage resources and provide visibility in a multi-instance implementation of VMware Cloud Foundation • Describe how to create, join, leave, and dismantle a federation • Recognize the design considerations for a federation 15. VMware Cloud Foundation Troubleshooting • Explain how to perform checks and create log bundles with the SoS tool • List VMware Cloud Foundation services • Identify VMware Cloud Foundation log files • Describe the use of reference token IDs to troubleshoot failed 2workflows

VMware Cloud Foundation: Planning, Management, Operations

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7. Storage on VMware Cloud on AWS • vSAN storage in VMware Cloud on AWS • Attaching external storage to a VM running on an SDDC 8. Working with On-Premises vSphere • Hybrid linked mode • Migration solutions for VMware Cloud on AWS • VM migration with VMware HCX® 9. Maintaining and Troubleshooting VMware Cloud on AWS • Accessing API with VMware Cloud on AWS • Maintenance and support • Common troubleshooting steps 10. Disaster Recovery Solution • Site Recovery add-on service • VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery™ 11. Using Other VMware Products with the SDDC • VMware vRealize® Log Insight Cloud™ • VMware Horizon® with VMware Cloud on AWS • VMware vRealize® Automation Cloud™ add-on • Using VMware vRealize® Operations™ with VMware Cloud on AWS • Using VMware vRealize® Network Insight™ with VMware Cloud on AWS

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6. Storage • Storage in VMware Cloud on Dell EMC 7. Working with On-Premises vSphere • Hybrid linked mode • Migration Solutions for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC • VM Migration with VMware HCX 8. Maintaining and Troubleshooting • Maintenance, Support, and Common Troubleshooting Steps 9. Working with other VMware Products • VMware vRealize® Log Insight Cloud™ • VMware Horizon® with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC • VMware vRealize® Automation • Using VMware vRealize® Operations with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC • Using VMware vRealize® Network Insight™ with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

VMware Cloud on Dell: Deploy and Manage 2022

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8. Managing Instances with Nova • Understand Nova use cases and services • Understand regions, availability zones, and host aggregates • Understand the concept of tenant VDC • Nova support for multiple vCenter instances • How to deploy an instance using Nova • How to resize an instance and view the console logs • Configuration and logs related to Nova service 9. Cinder Block Storage • Understand Cinder use cases and services • List the features offered by Cinder • Adding a persistent volume to an instance • Explain the Snapshot of a Cinder volume and attach it to another instance • List the custom resources, log files, and database tables related to Cinder 10. Monitoring with Ceilometer • List the Telemetry use cases and services • How to enable Ceilometer in VIO • How to monitor the VIO environment using Ceilometer • Configuration and log files related to Ceilometer service 11. Automating with Heat • Define Heat use cases, templates, and services • Describe use cases of Heat 12. Troubleshooting Concepts • List common issues in VMware Integrated OpenStack • Use troubleshooting tools • Describe simple troubleshooting procedures • List and explain Day-2 operations 13. Advanced Features • Describe Load Balancer as a Service (Octavia) • Explain Firewall as a Service • Describe Designate (DNS as a Service) • Describe automating scaling • Describe selective vCPU pinning • Explain SRIOV network redundancy support • Describe network trunk services support • Describe Live resize • Describe hardware passthrough (GPU pass through) • Describe external REST API

VMware Integrated OpenStack: Install, Configure, Manage

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7. Replicating Virtual Machines with vSphere Replication • Configure vSphere Replication for virtual machines • Explain the importance of datastore mappings • Describe vSphere Replication recovery point objective scheduling • Describe the vSphere Replication disk transfer protocol 8 Building Protection Groups • Define protection group functionality • Examine the differences between array-based protection groups, protection groups based on vSphere Replication, and storage profile protection groups • Create a protection group • Discuss protection group settings • Remove protection from a virtual machine • Create a storage profile protection group 9. Building Recovery Plans • Discuss recovery plan concepts • List recovery plan steps • Discuss network planning • Discuss customization options in recovery planning • Outline how to implement a recovery plan • Investigate recovery plan options 10. Testing and Running a Recovery Plan • Discuss use cases for Site Recovery Manager • Describe planned migration • Identify Site Recovery Manager workflows • Discuss the importance of VMware vSphere® VMFS resignaturing • Examine Site Recovery Manager integration with various vSphere technologies • Outline how to conduct a recovery plan test • Perform recovery plan test execution • Identify the effects on the storage layer during recovery steps • Explain a recovery plan execution in planned migration or disaster recovery mode • Understand storage layer changes for plan execution types • Identify the recovery steps for each execution type • Describe how to reprotect a data center • Examine failback steps 11. Monitoring and Troubleshooting • Discuss Site Recovery Manager alarms • Explore Site Recovery Manager history reports • Configuring advanced Site Recovery Manager settings • Describe how to modify logging levels • Explain how to collect log bundles • Identify key log locations

VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage

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7. Day One Operations: Network Functions ad Network Services • Describe the roles of network services and network functions • List the types of descriptors • Describe the role of TOSCA • Describe the role of onboarding • List the steps to onboard network functions and network services • Examine the results of the onboarding process • List the steps to instantiate network functions and network services • Examine the results of the instantiation process 8. Day Two Operations: Authorization Model • Explain the resources that can be accessed in vSphere • Define the role of a VMware vCenter Server® system in credential management • Describe the procedures to create, delete, and modify rules using vCenter Server • Explain how to control and verify access to vSphere resources • List roles in VMware Telco Cloud Automation • Explain the tasks and list the levels of permissions needed in VMware Telco Cloud Automation • List all the permissions and filters that can be implemented in VMware Telco Cloud Automation • Summarize the role-based access control model of VMware Telco Cloud Automation 9. Day Two Operations: Platform Life Cycle Management • Explain the life cycle stages in VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane • Explain the life cycle stages in VMware Telco Cloud Automation • Define an upgrade schedule • Apply an upgrade schedule to manage life cycle management of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane • Apply an upgrade schedule to manage life cycle management of VMware Telco Cloud Automation • Describe network function and network service life cycle management events • Execute network function and network service healing • Set up Network Function and Network Service monitoring • Perform Network Function and Network Service termination 10. Day Two Operations: Troubleshooting • List the components of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation dashboard • Explain the features of fault management in VMware Telco Cloud Automation • Explain the features of performance management in VMware Telco Cloud Automation • Describe the use of fault management of VMware Telco Cloud Automation for VNFs and CNFs • Describe the use of performance management of VMware Telco Cloud Automation for VNFs and CNFs • Troubleshoot using tcf_manager, app.log, and web.log • Define the procedures to integrate VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ with VMware Telco Cloud Automation • Usage of VMware vRealize® Operations™ 11. Day Two Operations: API Management • Define the VMware Telco Cloud Automation API • Explain the API architecture • Describe VMware Telco Cloud Automation API use cases • Explain how to configure an external REST API • Describe how to request security tokens for implementation • Explain how to implement commands through external systems using APIs 12. Day Two Operations: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery • Describe continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) • List the benefits and challenges of CICD • Describe how VMware Telco Cloud Automation can be used in a CICD environment • Explore VMware Telco Cloud Automation CICD examples

VMware Telco Cloud Automation: Install, Configure, Manage

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6. Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Organizations • Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations • Create VMware Cloud Director organizations • Navigate through the VMware Cloud Director HTML5 provider portal • Describe the VMware Cloud Director organization VDC • Navigate through the tenant portal • List use cases for a VMware Cloud Director organization VDC • List the organization VDC allocation models • Describe the types of resources that can be allocated • Describe how resources are allocated for an organization • Examine the function and requirements of network pools • Describe the network types available in VMware Cloud Director (external, organization, and vApp) • List the organization network types • Create and manage organization VDC networks • Describe catalogs • Manage an organization’s catalog • Populate, share, and publish catalogs • Describe vApps • Manage access to vApps and catalogs • Modify the configuration of vApps and their virtual machines (VMs) • Manage organization VDC networking • Create affinity and anti-affinity rules 7. Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Security • Describe role-based access • Create custom security roles • Describe the directory services in VMware Cloud Director • Describe the role of LDAP, SAML, SSL, Kerberos, and OAuth2 with VMware Cloud Director • Explain the use of VMware Cloud Director with SSO 8. Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Networking • List networking options in VMware Cloud Director • Describe key networking use cases in VMware Cloud Director • Describe the use and placement of VMware NSX® Edge™ services gateways in relation to VMware Cloud Director • Review routing with the distributed logical router and edge services gateways in combination with VMware Cloud Director • Describe firewall management in VMware Cloud Director with edge services gateways and the distributed firewall • Describe an overview of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center • Explain the architecture of NSX-T Data Center • Describe VMware Cloud Director supported features of NSX-T Data Center • Describe the benefits and challenges of multisite networking • List the requirements for multisite networking • Describe the benefits and challenges of networking between VDCs • List the requirements for networking between VDCs • Configure cross-VDC networking 9. Day 2 Operations: VMware Cloud Director Resource Management and Monitoring • Identify the key resources that need to be managed with VMware Cloud Director • List monitoring options with VMware Cloud Director • Explain the resource management and monitoring architecture in VMware Cloud Director • Monitor objects from the VMware Cloud Director portal • Identify features of VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ • Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager • Configure VMware vRealize® Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director™ • Outline the monitoring features of vRealize Operations Manager in VMware Cloud Director • Describe the purpose of the vRealize Operations Tenant App for VMware Cloud Director • Integrate VMware Cloud Director with the Tenant App • Configure the Tenant App for VMware Cloud Director • Monitor objects with the Tenant App • List the steps to monitor VMware Cloud Director environments with vRealize Operations Manager • List the steps to monitor VMware Cloud Director environments with VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ • List the steps to review historical virtual machine metrics in VMware Cloud Director • Examine VMware Cloud Director logs 10 Day 2 Operations: VMware Cloud Director Troubleshooting • Identify the features of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation dashboards • List the components of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation dashboards • Explain the features of fault management in VMware Telco Cloud Director • Describe the use of fault management in VMware Cloud Director • Describe the use of performance management in VMware Cloud Director • Describe the use of logs in VMware Cloud Director • Troubleshoot using VMware Cloud Director

VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure: Install, Configure, Manage

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5. Day 1 Operations: Network Functions and Network Services • Describe the role of a network service • Describe the types of network functions • List the type of descriptors • Describe the requirements of a descriptor • Describe the role of TOSCA • Describe how TOSCA is used to create descriptors • Explore the basics of the TOSCA structure • Examine the types of descriptors • Describe the role of onboarding • List the steps to onboard a virtual network function • List the steps to onboard a cloud-native network function • Examine the results of the onboarding process • Describe the role of Harbor • Explain how to list the contents of a Harbor platform • List the steps to interface with a Harbor platform • List the steps to instantiate a virtual network function • List the steps to instantiate a cloud-native network function • Examine the results of the instantiation process • List the steps to instantiate a network service • Examine the results of the instantiation process 6. Day 2 Operations: Platform Life Cycle Management • Explain the life cycle stages in VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane • Explain the life cycle stages in VMware Telco Cloud Automation • Define an upgrade schedule • Define workflows • Describe how upgrade schedules are used to manage life cycle events for the VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane • Describe how upgrade schedules are used to manage life cycle events for VMware Telco Cloud Automation • Describe network function life cycle management events • Execute healing • Perform a termination • Execute workflows • Perform an upgrade • Describe network service life cycle management events • Execute network service healing • Set up network service monitoring • Perform a network service termination 7. Day 2 Operations: Troubleshooting • Identify the features of the VMware Telco Cloud Platform for RAN dashboards • List the components of the VMware Telco Cloud Platform for RAN dashboards • Explain the features of fault management in VMware Telco Cloud Platform • Describe the use of fault management in VMware Telco Cloud Platform for network functions • Describe the use of performance management in VMware Telco Cloud Platform for network functions • Describe the use of logs in VMware Telco Cloud Platform • Troubleshoot using VMware Telco Cloud Platform logs • List the key CLI tools that can be used for troubleshooting • List the steps to identify common network function deployment problems • Examine key troubleshooting scenarios 8. Day 2 Operations: API Management • Define the VMware Telco Cloud Automation API • Explain the API architecture • Describe the use cases for VMware Telco Cloud Automation API • Explain how to configure an external REST API • Describe how to request security tokens for implementation • Explain how to implement commands through external systems using APIs

VMware Telco Cloud Platform for Radio Access Network: Install, Configure, Manage

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5. Supporting Virtualized Network Functions • Describe the types of network functions • List the type of descriptors • Describe the requirements of a VNF descriptor • Describe the key vSphere operations for VNFs • Describe the key VNF use cases • List the role of vSphere in VNF instantiation • Outline VM onboarding requirements • Describe the VNF requirements for onboarding • List the steps to onboard a VNF • Describe VNF life cycle management • Describe key life cycle management operations 6. Supporting Cloud-native Network Functions • Describe the special requirements of containers on network functions • List the type of descriptors for containers • Describe the requirements of a CNF descriptor • Describe the role of Harbor • Explain how to list the contents of a Harbor platform • List the steps to interface with a Harbor platform • Describe container onboarding requirements for Harbor • Describe the CNF requirements for onboarding • List the steps to onboard a CNF • Describe CNF life cycle management • Describe key life cycle management operations 7. VMware Telco Cloud Platform Troubleshooting • Identify the features of the VMware Telco Cloud Platform dashboards • List the components of the VMware Telco Cloud Platform dashboards • Explain the features of fault management in VMware Telco Cloud Platform • Describe the use of fault management in VMware Telco Cloud Platform for network functions • Describe the use of performance management in VMware Telco Cloud Platform for network functions • Describe the use of logs in VMware Telco Cloud Platform • Troubleshoot using VMware Telco Cloud Platform logs • List the key CLI tools that can be used for Troubleshooting • List the steps to identify common network function deployment problems • Examine key troubleshooting scenarios

VMware Telco Cloud Platform: Install, Configure, Manage

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7. vApp Networking • Create and manage vApp networks • List the various types of vApp networks • Discuss vApp fencing • Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks 8. vCloud Availability • Discuss vCloud Availability and its integration with vCloud Director • Migrate VMs from cloud to cloud • Migrate VMs from on-premises to cloud 9. vCloud Extensibility • Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with vCloud Director • Work with swagger, vCloud API, vCD CLI, and VMware PowerCLI™ 10. Multisite Deployment and CPOM • Discuss multisite deployments • Configure cross VDC networking • Define SDDC • Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy • Use enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal 11. Monitoring and Managing vCloud Director Resources • Monitor resources from the tenant portal • Monitor vCloud Director objects with vRealize Operations Manager • Understand dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reports 12. vCloud Director 10.x Tenant New Feature • Describe name disk feature • Describe VM sizing and VM placement policies • Describe object storage extension

VMware vCloud Director: Tenant Operations

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9. Integrating with Public Clouds • Configure and use VMware Cloud Foundation accounts • Configure and use an AWS cloud account • Configure and use an Azure cloud account • Configure and use a Google Cloud Platform cloud account 10. Using Service Broker for Catalog Management • Release a VMware Cloud Template™ • Define content source and content sharing • Define Service Broker policy enforcement • Use custom forms for catalog items 11 vRealize Automation Extensibility • Describe Extensibility • Use event topics • Create a subscription • Call a vRealize Orchestrator workflow • Create ABX actions 12 Using Code Stream • Introduction to Code Stream • The CI/CD process • Integrate GitLab with Code Stream and Cloud Assembly • Use Code Stream to install software 13 Using Terraform • Integrate Cloud Assembly with Terraform • Use Terraform with a VMware Cloud Template • Use Terraform with Code Stream 14 Using Kubernetes Clusters • Introduction to Kubernetes • Connect to an existing Kubernetes Cluster • Integrate VMware Tanzu™ Grid Integrated Edition • Create a Supervisor Namespace as a catalog item 15 Using SaltStack for Configuration Management • Introduction SaltStack with vRealize Automation • Use SaltStack for software deployment • Use SaltStack for configuration management • Use SaltStack with event-driven orchestration 16 vRealize Automation Troubleshooting and Integration • Location of logs • Using Activity • Monitoring deployment history • Basic troubleshooting • CLI commands • Collecting logs (VAMI console) • Integration with VMware vRealize® Log Insight™ • Integration with vRealize Operations • Migrating vRealize Automation 7.x to 8

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