Architecting on AWS with VMware Cloud Fast Track
COURSE OUTLINE:
This 5-day class combines Architecting on AWS with VMware Cloud on AWS: Deploy and Manage to give you a broad overview of AWS capabilities and how it relates to VMware Cloud.
The Architecting on AWS portion of this course will focus on teaching all the essential skills to architect your IT solutions on AWS. Gain in-depth knowledge of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform and how to leverage AWS services for your specific cloud-based application. As an emerging technology course, this hands-on training provides current AWS cloud best practices and AWS architecture principles covering the entire process of designing IT infrastructure from beginning to end. Since AWS introduces an average of 200 new features and services annually, it is critical that you study the most recent innovations. To reinforce this material, you will also explore pertinent case studies with a variety of AWS infrastructure designs and strategies. Upon completion, you will be fully equipped to build and scale a more efficient and reliable IT solution on the AWS cloud environment.
The VMware Cloud portion of this class will focus on teaching skills for deploying and managing a VMware Cloud on AWS infrastructure. Through a mix of 85% lecture and 15% hands-on labs, you deploy and manage the VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware vSphere� features that build a foundation for a hybrid infrastructure. You also discuss when and where these features have the greatest effect. Anyone planning to migrate, build, or hybridize with VMware Cloud on AWS can benefit from this course.
Audience
Experienced System Administrators, System Integrators and Individuals responsible for designing cloud infrastructure and reference architectures
Additionally, Systems engineers and developers responsible for designing and implementing architectures on AWS should also take this course.
Prerequisites
Attended AWS Essentials or have equivalent experience
Working knowledge of distributed systems
Familiarity with general networking concepts
Working knowledge of multi-tier architectures
Familiarity with cloud computing concepts
Learning Objectives
Architecting on AWS:
Making decisions based on the AWS-recommended architectural principles and best practices
Leveraging AWS services to make your infrastructure scalable, reliable, and highly available
Leveraging AWS managed services to enable greater flexibility and resiliency in an infrastructure
Making an AWS-based infrastructure more efficient in order to increase performance and reduce costs
Using the Well-Architected Framework to improve architectures with AWS solutions
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VMware Cloud on AWS: Deploy and Manage:
Describe the architecture of VMware Cloud on AWS
Access and deploy a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
Differentiate between on-premises VMware vSAN� and vSAN for VMware Cloud on AWS
Configure internal, external, and inter-SDDC networking
Configure a connection between an on-premises vSphere SDDC and a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC Describe how to right size a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
Configure the scale-up and scale-down of a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
Migrate virtual machines between on-premises vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs
Create and configure virtual machines in VMware Cloud on AWS
Connect and use other AWS solutions with VMware Cloud on AWS
Connect and use other VMware solutions with VMware Cloud on AWS
Configure access and permissions for VMware Cloud on AWS
Identify best practices for security hardening of a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
Identify best practices for the maintenance of a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
Identify patching considerations, requirements, and best practices for VMware Cloud on AWS when connected to an on-premises vSphere SDDC
Access support, documentation, and diagnostic information for VMware Cloud on AWS
Discuss failure and troubleshooting scenarios for a VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
Architecting on AWS:
Core AWS Knowledge
Designing Your Environment
Making Your Environment Highly Available
Forklifting an Existing Application onto AWS
Event-Driven Scaling
Automating and Decoupling Your Infrastructure
Designing Storage at Scale
Hosting a New Web Application on AWS
The Four Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework
Disaster Recovery and Failover Strategies
Troubleshooting Your Environment
Large-Scale Design Patterns and Case Studies
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VMware Cloud on AWS: Deploy and Manage:
Course Introduction
Introductions and Course Logistics
Course Objectives
Identify Additional Resources for after this Course
Identify Other VMware Education Offerings
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2 Introduction to VMware Cloud on AWS
Why Choose VMware Cloud on AWS
Overview of VMware Cloud on AWS
Integrations with AWS
Licensing, Pricing, and Billing
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3 Managing the SDDC and creating Virtual Machines
Creating and Managing Users in VMware Cloud on AWS
Deploying and Accessing an SDDC
Transferring Content to the SDDC
Creating Virtual Machines
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4 VMware Cloud on AWS: Networking
Overview of VMware Cloud on AWS Networking
Configure Management Gateway Networking
Configure Compute Gateway Networking Inter-SDDC Networking
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5 VMware Cloud on AWS: Storage
VMware vSAN in VMware Cloud on AWS
Using Amazon S3 with VMware Cloud on AWS
Using Amazon EFS with VMware Cloud on AWS
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6 Working with On-Premises VMware vSphere
Hybrid Linked Mode
Hybrid Cloud Extension
Migrating Virtual Machines
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7 VMware Cloud on AWS Permissions and Security
Understand VMware Cloud on AWS Permissions
Security Hardening for VMware Cloud on AWS
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8 Scaling the SDDC and Host Management
Sizing the SDDC
Cluster Management
Add and Remove Hosts
Host Remediation
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9 Resource Management and Availability
vSphere DRS and Elastic DRS
HA and vSphere FT
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10 Using Other VMware Products with the SDDC
Site Recovery Add-On Service � VMware Horizon�
VMware vRealize� Automation
Using APIs and VMware vSphere� PowerCLI
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11 Maintaining and Troubleshooting VMware Cloud on AWS
Best Practice Maintenance
Support and Staying Up-to-Date
Common Troubleshooting Steps
Next Steps to use VMware Cloud on AWS