Duration
5 days.
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you must complete at least one of the following courses:
- VMware Telco Cloud Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V1.8]
- VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance: Install, Configure, Manage [V2.0]
- VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure: Install, Configure, Manage [V2.0]
- VMware Telco Cloud Platform: Install, Configure, Manage [V2.0]
- 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:
- List the operational challenges for rolling out and operating telco services including 5G.
- Identify the role of VMware Telco Cloud products in supporting telco services.
- Discuss the role of VMware technologies such as vSphere, NSX, and Tanzu etc. in implementing telco services.
- Outline the role of native tools and other VMware monitoring tools such as vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight in maintaining network services.
- Choose the VMware Telco Cloud products that meet your application requirements.
- Deploy a solution architecture that meet VMware best practices for delivering services using VMware Telco Cloud products.
- Implement and maintain VMware Telco Cloud products in a secure manner.
- Identify the tools and remediation pathways for maintaining the availability and performance of your applications and infrastructure using VMware Telco Cloud and vRealize Suite products.
- Follow specific steps to resolve application performance and availability problems
- Scale your VMware Telco Cloud products to meet operational requirements in line with VMware best practices.
- Optimize the operation of VMware Telco Cloud products to ensure SLAs are met.
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: Day 2 Operate and Scale [V2.x] Training
Outline
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Overview of Network Transformation
- Reviews the technologies that enable modern networks
- Lists the components of modern service provider networks
- Outlines characteristics of modern service provider networks in meeting customer application needs
Service Delivery with VMware Telco Cloud
- Outlines the components of the VMware Telco Cloud portfolio
- Reviews the role each VMware Telco Cloud product plays in delivering telco services
- Specifies the dependencies each product has on underlying technologies
Supporting VMware Telco Cloud Service Delivery
- Reviews the products that implements the virtualization, management, platform, and orchestration layers
- Outlines the role played by other VMware products such as NSX in delivering cloud services
- Outline opensource integration options with VMware Telco Cloud products
Securing VMware Telco Cloud
- Reviews security threats that affect telco services
- Identifies the critical telco assets that are prone to attack
- Outlines best practice for securing VMware Telco Cloud products and underlying technology
- Provides overview of appropriate security controls for VMware Telco Cloud products
Assessing Service Provision
- Reviews tools and methodologies used to gather requirements
- Outlines how to assess cloud-native capabilities
- Documenting findings
- Identifying security vulnerabilities with Helm.
- Reviews VMware’s Customer Engagement process
- Capturing infrastructure requirements from TCA
Designing a VMware Telco Cloud Solution
- Selecting appropriate deployment topology
- Pros and cons of design choices
- How a design choice might be affected by other factors such as NSX and TKG deployment, or data center architecture
- Outlines typical scenarios where specific products align with identified requirements
- Documenting a design
- Designing for availability
- Ensuring a design aligns with best practice
- Specifying monitoring options
Implementing VMware Telco Cloud Products
- Review deployment options for VMware products
- Integrating new products with existing ones
- Outline post-installation tasks
- Adding the new products as data sources in monitoring tools such as vRealize Operations and vRealize Operations Network Insight
- Ensuring products meet security requirements
- Configuring monitoring software
- Outlines the xNF onboarding process in TCA
Maintaining Telco Services
- Outlines typical administrative tasks in ensuring services are maintained
- Use of native and other VMware performance monitoring tools
- Reviewing performance data
- Role of SLAs in service maintenance
- Reviews scenarios where known behaviors indicate problems
Troubleshooting Deployed Telco Services
- Reviews the troubleshooting tools available
- Using tools to gather useful data
- Outlines how event correlation can be used to isolate problems
- Using a methodology to determine the root cause of a problem
- Steps to identify and resolve a problem
- Reviews scenarios where known problems are isolated and resolution steps identified
Scaling VMware Telco Cloud Products
- Assessing if operations are impacted by lack of resources now or will be in the future
- Reviews performance optimization options
- Identifies implications for other products if you scale VMware Telco Cloud products
- Reviews VMware sizing guidelines
Product Alignment
- VMware Telco Cloud Automation [V2.1]
- VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance [V2.1]
- VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure [V2.2]
- VMware Telco Cloud Platform [V2.2]