Duration

30 days.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you must complete the following courses: • VMware Telco Cloud Service Operations (TCOps) Fundamentals 2020 and VMware Telco Cloud Operations v1.1. You should also have understanding or knowledge of these technologies:

  • Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
  • Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking
  • Substantial knowledge of containers and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
  • Experience with working at the Linux command line

Skills Gained

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Deploy VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Manage VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance to satisfy Telco cloud provider needs
  • Discuss configurable options for VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Identify and configure different data sources which are used with VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Configure different collectors in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Identify the Root Cause Analysis options with VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Discuss data collection in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Explain root cause analysis in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Navigate through the logs for troubleshooting

Who Can Benefit?

  • Experienced system administrators and network administrators
  • Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators
  • Network administrators with experience in managed services or managing a Telco Cloud environment

Outline for VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance: Install, Configure, Manage [V2.0]-On Demand Training

Outline

Course Introduction

  • Introduction and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Introduction to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

  • Describe the features of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • List the capabilities of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Discuss the use cases of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Describe the role played by VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance components in delivering service assurance
  • List the architecture components of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

Deploying VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

  • Explain different deployment options of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Identify different deployment methods of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Discuss different phases in deploying VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Identify different footprints available for HA based and non-HA based installation of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Describe the Smarts components of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Deploy VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

User Access Control

  • Describe the features Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
  • Outline the role of Keycloak in implementing RBAC in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Configure user federation in Keycloak
  • Use the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance UI to manage RBAC
  • Create policies in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance that align with job roles

Services and User Interface Configurations

  • Describe the core services on a TCSA cluster
  • Discuss the Global Manager or Service Assurance Manager (SAM), IP Domain Manager, Server Manager (ESM)
  • Discuss VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance UI Overview
  • Discuss 5G integration options in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Explain Working with Notifications
  • Explain Viewing and configuring Topologies
  • Describe Topology Explorer
  • Explain Collecting Troubleshooting Information
  • Discuss Custom models
  • Describe how compute resources are provided to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Describe how storage is provided to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Configure and manage VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Discuss configurable options for VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

Day 1 and Day 2 Operations

  • Identify different data sources to be used with VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Configure different collectors with VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Describe Alarms and Thresholds
  • Demonstrate how to configure alarms with VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Explain how to setup thresholds and timelines in VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

Logs and Troubleshooting

  • Identify the installation logs of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
  • Discuss VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance installations logs
  • List Smarts installation logs
  • List the Kubernetes CLI commands that are used for troubleshooting
  • Identify the approach for troubleshooting containerized services
  • Discuss monitoring services

Product Alignment

  • VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance™ v2.0