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VMware Cloud Foundation: Troubleshooting [V9.0]
This comprehensive five-day hands-on training is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) 9.0...
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$4,250 USD
Duration
5 days
Course Code
EDU-VCFT9
Available Formats
Classroom, Virtual
Upcoming Course Dates
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Mar 23, 2026 - Mar 27, 2026 (5 days)
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Apr 20, 2026 - Apr 24, 2026 (5 days)
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May 18, 2026 - May 22, 2026 (5 days)
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Overview
This comprehensive five-day hands-on training is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in troubleshooting the VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF) 9.0 environments. This course blends lecture and hands-on lab exercises to deliver advanced skills to diagnose and resolve problems in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 environments. This course also focuses on investigating and resolving problems and analyzing log files to help you recognize log file entries that identify root causes.
Skills Gained
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the VCF solution
- Describe the VCF architecture and components
- Describe the deployment model based on the existing infrastructure
- Explain the troubleshooting methodology to resolve common validation precheck errors
- Identify and use the correct logs to troubleshoot VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Installer
- Describe the license assignment process for connected and disconnected deployments
- Identify the log file and log locations for VCF licensing components
- Explain the workload domain creation workflow
- Troubleshoot network pool creation
- Troubleshoot VMware® ESX® host commissioning
- Monitor VMware vSAN™ health using the VMware Cloud Foundation® Operations console
- Monitor vSAN Health using vSphere Client
- Monitor network operations
- Analyze flows and network performance
- Describe central password management in VCF Operations
- Monitor password expiration
- Describe the architecture and components of the VMSP cluster
- Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VMSP cluster provisioning
- Identify key kubectl commands and logs to check the health status of the VMSP cluster
- Generate, download, and review the structure of the VMware Cloud Foundation® Automation support log bundle
Who Can Benefit
System Administrators, Solution Engineers, Consultants, and Support Personnel.
Prerequisites
- Before taking this course, students should have completed the VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals for Technical Support training from Support Learning Path Stage-1.
- Familiarity with command-line interfaces is strongly recommended.
Course Details
Course Introduction
- Introduction and course logistics
- Course objectives
Troubleshooting VCF Deployment
- Describe the VCF solution
- Describe the VCF architecture and components
- Describe the sequence of steps that occur during the VCF installation process
- Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VCF installation
- Describe the VMware vSphere® Foundation solution
- Describe the vSphere Foundation architecture and components
Troubleshooting Upgrades
- Understand the deployment model based on the existing infrastructure
- Explain the troubleshooting methodology to resolve common validation precheck errors
- Identify and use the correct logs to troubleshoot VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Installer
- Explain the key components and features of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
- Understand the architecture of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 Private Cloud
- Identify and analyze the supported upgrade paths to vSphere Foundation 9.0 private cloud
- Identify the prerequisites to deploy vSphere Foundation
Troubleshooting License
- Describe the license assignment process for connected and disconnected deployments
- Identify the log file and log locations for VCF licensing components
- Run commands on the ESX host to verify licensing status
Workload Domain Troubleshooting
- Describe the workload domain architecture and components
- Explain the workload domain creation workflow
- Troubleshoot network pool creation
- Troubleshoot ESX host commissioning
- Troubleshoot the different steps in workload domain creation
Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Compute
- Monitor compute environments using VMware Cloud Foundation
- Troubleshoot ESX hosts and vCenter issues effectively
- Diagnose and resolve virtual machine problems efficiently
- Describe vSphere cluster features and related issues
- Describe diagnostic findings to identify and remediate issues
Troubleshooting VCF vSAN Storage
- Monitor vSAN health using the VCF Operations console
- Monitor vSAN Health using VCF Operations diagnostics Health in the vSphere Client
- Monitor object health in the vSphere Client
Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Networking
- Monitor network operations
- Deploy the Operations Network appliance
- Analyze flows and network performance
Troubleshooting VCF Operations Fleet Management
- Describe central password management in VCF Operations
- Implement password management
- Monitor password expiration
- Update VCF component passwords
Troubleshooting VMware Cloud Foundation Automation
- Describe the architecture and components of the VMSP cluster
- Identify key log files to troubleshoot the VMSP cluster provisioning
- Identify key kubectl commands and logs to check the health status of the VMSP cluster
- Generate, download, and review the structure of the VCF Automation support log bundle
Schedule
4 options available
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Mar 23, 2026 - Mar 27, 2026 (5 days)
Live Virtual | 9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT Language English Select from 1 options below Live Virtual |9:00AM – 5:00PM EDT- Enroll
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Apr 20, 2026 - Apr 24, 2026 (5 days)
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May 18, 2026 - May 22, 2026 (5 days)
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Jun 15, 2026 - Jun 19, 2026 (5 days)
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