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

Course code: VRAAFT8

This is a five-day course that is a follow-on to the VMware vRealize® Automation™ Install, Configure, Manage course. In this course, you go deeper into using the advanced features of vRealize Automation to deploy user systems and interface vRealize Automation with other platforms.

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Course description

This is a five-day course that is a follow-on to the VMware vRealize® Automation™ Install, Configure, Manage course. In this course, you go deeper into using the advanced features of vRealize Automation to deploy user systems and interface vRealize Automation with other platforms. The course covers deploying and enterprise level cluster environment using VMware vRealize® Suite Lifecycle Manager™.

This course makes heavy use of hands-on labs. Students can run 41 labs during the 5-day course.

Target group

Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for using the advanced features of vRealize Automation in enterprise deployments.

Course structure

Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Advanced Blueprints

  • 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

Advanced Networking

  • 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

Using vRealize Orchestrator Workflows for Extensibility

  • 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

Using ABX Actions

  • Determine when to use ABX and when to use vRealize Orchestrator
  • Using ABX to create day-2 Actions
  • Calling PowerShell from ABX

Kubernetes Administration

  • 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

Code Stream Administration

  • Create and use CI/CD pipelines
  • Use the Code Stream user interface
  • Add states and tasks to a Code Stream pipeline

Integrating vRealize Automation with GitLab

  • Define Git, GitLab, and GitHub
  • Configure GitLab to support vRealize Automation blueprints
  • Integrate vRealize Automation with GitLab
  • Manage blueprints using GitLab source control

Configuration Management

  • Describe the use case of Ansible and Ansible Tower
  • Connect to Ansible Tower
  • Use Ansible playbooks
  • Use Puppet in configuration management

Clustered Deployment

  • 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

Clustered Deployment Architecture

  • 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

Troubleshooting vRealize Automation

  • 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

Prerequisites

his 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

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