This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, managing, operating and securing private cloud using VMware Cloud Foundation® (VCF). You will learn about the architecture of VCF, storage and network management, licensing, and certificates. In addition to workload domains, availability, and life cycle management, the course also covers upgrade scenarios.Updated 22/4/2026 1- Course IntroductionIntroduction and course logisticsCourse objectives2- VCF Private Cloud: Overview and ArchitectureDefine VCF and its key featuresDescribe the use cases of VCFExplain the capabilities of VCFDescribe the integrated security across all layers in VCFExplain the advanced services of VCFExplain the architecture of the VCF private cloudRecognize the components of the VCF private cloudDistinguish between VCF fleet-level components and VCF instance-level componentsDescribe the various roles in VCF private cloud3- VCF Private Cloud DeploymentIdentify the VCF fleet deployment considerationsDescribe the process for planning and preparing a VCF deploymentIdentify the information required for the Planning