VMware Cloud Foundation: Automate and Operate [V9.0] – FT — Lesson 4: Operational dashboards, deployment health, logs, alerts, cost awareness, capacity, support ownership, failure recovery, and service improvement

Learning Objectives

• Identify the architecture and operational choices that shape Operational dashboards, deployment health, logs, alerts, cost awareness, capacity, support ownership, failure recovery, and service improvement.
• Run normal and boundary tests and record the outcome in automation service dashboard and ownership runbook.
• Separate root cause from symptom when investigating a deployment failure being closed without removing partially created infrastructure.

Detailed Topics

• Operational dashboards
• Deployment health
• Logs
• Alerts
• Cost awareness
• Capacity
• Support ownership
• Failure recovery
• And service improvement
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for Operational dashboards, deployment health, logs, alerts, cost awareness, capacity, support ownership, failure recovery, and service improvement
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

Using realistic infrastructure, identities, and workloads, the instructor demonstrates Operational dashboards, deployment health, logs, alerts, cost awareness, capacity, support ownership, failure recovery, and service improvement. Checkpoints are captured in automation service dashboard and ownership runbook, with discussion of alternatives, side effects, and acceptance conditions.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a guided task covering Operational dashboards, deployment health, logs, alerts, cost awareness, capacity, support ownership, failure recovery, and service improvement. Establish a working baseline, reproduce “a deployment failure being closed without removing partially created infrastructure,” isolate the responsible configuration or dependency, apply a reversible fix, and update automation service dashboard and ownership runbook with before-and-after proof.

1. Confirm scope, access, sample workloads, and acceptance criteria.
2. Perform the configuration or operation using a controlled sequence.
3. Inspect outputs and downstream effects rather than relying on task status alone.
4. Close with a support note, preventive action, and reproducible validation step.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for Operational dashboards, deployment health, logs, alerts, cost awareness, capacity, support ownership, failure recovery, and service improvement.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how automation service dashboard and ownership runbook should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

When Operational dashboards, deployment health, logs, alerts, cost awareness, capacity, support ownership, failure recovery, and service improvement produces an unexpected result, reproduce the issue with the same scope, identity, workload, and time context. Inspect automation service dashboard and ownership runbook, test whether “a deployment failure being closed without removing partially created infrastructure” explains the evidence, apply the smallest reversible correction, and retest an unaffected path for regression.

Validation Checklist

• Prerequisites and role permissions for Operational dashboards, deployment health, logs, alerts, cost awareness, capacity, support ownership, failure recovery, and service improvement are confirmed before execution.
• The observed result agrees with expected values documented in automation service dashboard and ownership runbook.
• 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 Operational dashboards, deployment health, logs, alerts, cost awareness, capacity, support ownership, failure recovery, and service improvement, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with automation service dashboard and ownership runbook.