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

Einführung in den Kurs VMware vRealize Automation: Advanced Features and Troubleshooting [V8.x]

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

vRealize Automation Cluster-Bereitstellung

• Use LCM in a clustered deployment
• Configure External Certificates
• Configure NSX-T Data Center load balancer
• Install vRealize Automation using Clustered Deployment
• Scale VMware Identity Manager to support High Availability

vRealize Automation Cluster-Bereitstellungsarchitektur

• 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

Erweiterte Blaupausen

• 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

Erweiterte Vernetzung

• Use VMware NSX-T Data Center 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

Verwendung von vRealize Orchestrator

• Create 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

ABX-Aktionen verwenden

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

Kubernetes Integration

• Create a Kubernetes namespace from vRealize Automation
• Connect to an existing Kubernetes cluster
• Automate the deployment of an application to a Kubernetes cluster with Code Stream
• Use Kubernetes in Extensibility

Code Stream

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

Verwendung der GitLab-Integration

• Configure the GitLab Integration
• Use Gitlab with blueprints

Konfigurationsmanagement

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

Fehlersuche

• 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 for troubleshooting