VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0] – FT — Lesson 2: Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions

Learning Objectives

• Break down the prerequisites, components, roles, and decision points involved in Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions.
• Complete a controlled activity for Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions and capture catalog service deployment and approval audit trail.
• Challenge the result with an approval policy not triggering because the deployment property is mis-scoped, then justify the corrective action.

Detailed Topics

• Images
• Flavors
• Networks
• Storage
• Templates
• Catalog items
• Deployments
• Approvals
• Leases
• Policies
• And day-two actions
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor configures and tests Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions within a scenario aimed at a focused VCF automation capability that delivers policy-controlled catalog services, repeatable deployment workflows, extensible day-two operations, and operational accountability. The walkthrough contrasts a valid setup with a flawed one and uses catalog service deployment and approval audit trail to make the difference explicit.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a guided task covering Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions. Establish a working baseline, reproduce “an approval policy not triggering because the deployment property is mis-scoped,” isolate the responsible configuration or dependency, apply a reversible fix, and update catalog service deployment and approval audit trail with before-and-after proof.

1. Record the starting state, assumptions, identities, topology, and expected outcome.
2. Execute the planned workflow and collect evidence at each material checkpoint.
3. Test one valid path, one boundary condition, and the stated failure scenario.
4. Document the correction, retest result, rollback option, and follow-up owner.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how catalog service deployment and approval audit trail should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Diagnose Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions by checking effective state, ownership, dependencies, health, logs, and recent changes. Use catalog service deployment and approval audit trail to locate the earliest divergence. Treat “an approval policy not triggering because the deployment property is mis-scoped” as a hypothesis until the same test passes after correction and under a boundary condition.

Validation Checklist

• Prerequisites and role permissions for Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions are confirmed before execution.
• The observed result agrees with expected values documented in catalog service deployment and approval audit trail.
• Exceptions are explained with evidence instead of being hidden by manual correction.
• The final record names the approver, monitoring point, and next improvement action.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Images, flavors, networks, storage, templates, catalog items, deployments, approvals, leases, policies, and day-two actions, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with catalog service deployment and approval audit trail.