VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance: Install, Configure, Manage V2.x

This three-day, hands-on course provides the knowledge, skills, and tools to master the installation, configuration, and management of the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance environment. This course will familiarize you with VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance™ installation methods for various supported platforms and troubleshooting tools to help you install, manage, and troubleshoot your VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance environment. In addition, you will be introduced to different types of configuration options that you will identify, analyze, and navigate through as you explore the product's user interface and configurable options.

Course Contents

Course Introduction
Introduction to VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
Deploying VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance
User Access Control
Services and User Interface Configurations
Day 1 and Day 2 Operations
Logs and Troubleshooting

Target Group

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

Knowledge Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you must complete the following course:

VMware Telco Cloud Service Operations (TCOps) Fundamentals
VMware Telco Cloud Operations

In addition, you should understand or know these technologies:
Good knowledge of TCP/IP services and protocols
Basic knowledge of TCP/IP networking
Basic knowledge of containers and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
Experience working on the Linux command line

1 Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics

• Course objectives

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 Services and User Interface Configurations

• Describe the architecture of logical switching

• 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

• Explain Working with Notifications

• Elaborate Configuring Summary's

• Describe Accessing Notification Details

• Explain Viewing and configuring Topologies

• List Customizing 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

6 Day 1 and Day 2 Operations

• Review the architecture of logical routing and NSX Edge nodes

• 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

• Define Catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations.

• Identify the steps to import or upload data into catalogs.

• Explain the purpose of catalogs and How to Create a catalog organization.

• Describe the Purpose and Usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVA) and Custom vApp or VM Properties.

• Discuss vApp Templates

7 Logs and Troubleshooting

• Review the architecture of the Distributed Firewall

• Discuss VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance installations logs

• List Smarts installation logs

• Explain backup and restore options of VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance

• Identify the approach for troubleshooting containerized services

• Discuss monitoring services

Classroom training: Do you prefer the classic training method? A course in one of our Training Centers, with a competent trainer and the direct exchange between all course participants? Then you should book one of our classroom training dates!
Online training: You wish to attend a course in online mode? We offer you online course dates for this course topic. To attend these seminars, you need to have a PC with Internet access (minimum data rate 1Mbps), a headset when working via VoIP and optionally a camera. For further information and technical recommendations, please refer to.
Tailor-made courses: You need a special course for your team? In addition to our standard offer, we will also support you in creating your customized courses, which precisely meet your individual demands. We will be glad to consult you and create an individual offer for you.

You can find the complete description of this course with dates and prices ready for download at as PDF.