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VMware Telco Cloud Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V1.8] - On Demand

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VMware Telco Cloud Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V1.8] - On Demand

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$4,250 USD GSA $3,639.80

Course Code EDU-TCAICM18-EL

Duration 30 days

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This course, equivalent to 5 days of training, provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware Telco Cloud Automation™ environment. In this course, you are introduced to VMware Telco Cloud Automation infrastructure settings, deployment options, and procedures. You explore Containers as a Service and understand the workflow details of Partner Integration processes. You are introduced to zero-touch provisioning and its importance in VMware Telco Cloud Automation. You onboard and instantiate network functions and network services using hands-on lab exercises. In addition, you are presented with life cycle management workflows as well as various types of technical problems in VMware Telco Cloud Automation, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic process.

Skills Gained

List VMware Telco Cloud Automation deployment options and procedures
Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Automation infrastructure settings
Configure Containers as a Service (CaaS) functionality
Describe partner integration options and procedures
Define zero-touch provisioning and describe infrastructure deployment
Instantiate network services and network functions
Describe the authorization model of VMware Telco Cloud Automation
Define platform life cycle management (LCM) for VMware Telco Cloud Automation
Enumerate troubleshooting concepts and day-two operations for VMware Telco Cloud Automation
Describe the use of APIs within VMware Telco Cloud Automation
List examples of how VMware Telco Cloud Automation can be used in a CICD environment

Who Can Benefit

Telco cloud system administrators and telco network operations engineers
Professionals who work with telco or enterprise and data center networks
Designers and operations engineers who manage telco workloads

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have completed the VMware Telco Cloud Automation Fundamentals course. You should also have the following understanding or knowledge:

Good understanding of VMware products like VMware vSphere®, VMware NSX®, VMware vSAN™, TKG, and VMware vCloud Director®
Knowledge and working experience of network functions virtualization, including:
ETSI NFV framework, virtualized network functions, and related Interfaces
Kubernetes, Helm, cloud-native network functions, and CNI

Course Details

VMware Telco Cloud Automation Installation

Describe day-zero operations for VMware Telco Cloud Automation
Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Automation architecture
List the steps to perform VMware Telco Cloud Automation deployment
List the steps to perform VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane integration
Describe VMware Telco Cloud Automation control plane scaling
Describe the requirements on other applications such as VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ and Harbor
Describe where, when, and how to use VMware Telco Cloud Automation tagging

Day One Operations: Infrastructure Settings

Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Automation infrastructure options
Describe VMware Telco Cloud Automation infrastructure requirements
Outline the role of virtual infrastructure and TCA
Identify the benefits of public versus private infrastructure
List the steps to integrate a VM-based virtual infrastructure
List the steps to integrate a container-based virtual infrastructure
Describe private infrastructure requirements

Day One Operations: Containers as a Service

Define Containers as a Service (CaaS)
List the challenges of CNF deployment without automation
Describe the Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu™ Kubernetes Grid™ architectures
Describe supporting technologies like Cluster API
List steps to create a Kubernetes cluster template
Describe the process for deploying node pools and groups
Describe cluster monitoring
List CaaS scale options

Day One Operations: Partner Integration

Describe partner integration and the types of partners
Describe Harbor and the various Harbor platforms
List the steps to interface with a Harbor platform
Compare and contrast specialized VNF managers (S-VNFMs) and generic VNF managers (G-VNFMs)
Explain how to add an S-VNFM
Define S-VNFM use cases

Day One Operations: Zero Touch Provisioning and Infrastructure Deployment

Describe zero-touch provisioning
List the use cases of zero-touch provisioning
List the benefits of zero-touch provisioning
Describe the infrastructure requirements of zero-touch provisioning
Describe the zero-touch provisioning domains
List the steps to deploy an infrastructure using zero-touch provisioning

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

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

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

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™

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

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

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