Administering Cloud Foundation Systems

As an SDDC administrator, you use the information in the VMware Cloud Foundation Operations and Administration document to understand how to administer and operate your installed Cloud Foundation system.

An administrator of a Cloud Foundation system performs tasks such as:

• Manage certificates and passwords.
• Add capacity to your system.
• Configure and provision the systems and the workload domains that are used to provide service offerings.
• Manage provisioned workload domains.
• Monitor alerts and the health of the system.
• Troubleshoot issues and prevent problems across the physical and virtual infrastructure.
• Perform life cycle management on the Cloud Foundation software components.

Note: Perform all Cloud Foundation operations in the SDDC Manager UI. Do not use the vSphere Client/Web Client or VMware Host Client to modify or delete resources which Cloud Foundation has deployed and configured, unless specifically instructed to do so in the Cloud Foundation documentation.

See the Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation document for a high-level overview of the Cloud Foundation product and the VMware Cloud Foundation Deployment Guide for information on deploying the product.