VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.1]
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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
vFlex-ILT,
Onsite
- Length: 5 Days
Overview:
In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director™ 10.x. You learn about workload provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks.
This course also covers interfacing VMware Cloud Director with other systems and the integration and use of VMware Cloud Director Availability™. You also learn how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking, and configuring Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a Software-defined Data Center (SDDC) for a tenant and provider users of VMware Cloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various VMware Cloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™ and discusses administering tenant facing applications using vRealize® Operations Tenant App™. Product Alignment • VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 • VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.6 • VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.6 • VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.5.1 • VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.1 • VMware vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App 2.4 • VMware vCloud® Availability 4.0 |
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| Objectives: | By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: • Deploy VMware Cloud Director • Manage VMware Cloud Director to meet the service provider needs • Create and manage VMware Cloud Director organizations and vApps to fulfill business needs • Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs • Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere® into and out of VMware Cloud Director • Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center and VMware NSX® Data Center for vSphere™ • Discuss customer onboarding scenario using VMware Cloud Availability for on premises-to-cloud workload migration • Enable a layer 2 stretched network that spans across multiple VMware Cloud Director sites and organization VDCs within the same site • Manage resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console and use VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ • Manage a dedicated VMware vCenter Server® and publish proxies to the tenant • Onboard developer applications to the tenant using VMware Cloud Director® App Launchpad™ • Enable VM and Named Disk Encryption • Create VM sizing and placement policies |
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| Intended Audience: | Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment | |
| Prerequisites: | Completion of the following course is required: • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful. |
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| Outline: | 1 Course Introduction • Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives 2 Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Design • Define Software-Defined Data Center • Discuss VMware offerings for Cloud-Based Services • Understand the main components of the Software-Defined Data Center • Discuss the deployment options for vCloud Director • Discuss VMware Validated Design™ • Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC 3 Deploying and Configuring VMware Cloud Director • Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director • Explain different deployment options of VMware Cloud Director. • Define automatic failover, switchover, and fencing in the VMware Cloud Director appliance • Describe the API-only supported features of the VMware Cloud Director appliance • Familiarize with the multiple API endpoints of the VMware Cloud Director appliance 4 VMware Cloud Director Provider and Tenant • Describe how the compute resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director • Describe how storage is provided to VMware Cloud Director • Configure and manage storage for Virtual Datacenters (VDCs) • Discuss the use of External Networks • Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations • Describe the purpose of VMware Cloud Director organizations • Configure organizations • Enumerate organization policies • Allocate resources to an organization • Discuss Cloud Director organizations • Create Cloud Director organizations • Understand organization policies • How to access an organization using various portals • Understand organization VDC • Discuss what is linked clone and fast provisioning • Explore cross datastore provisioning 5 User Access Control • User bundle and role-based access control • Describe role-based access • Create custom security roles • Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory • Describe single sign-on • Enable a SAML identity provider • Describe two-factor authentication • Discuss user-bundle and role-based access control 6 Working with Virtual Machines • Discuss the use of virtual machines • Create a standalone VM • Perform VM operations • Manage VM properties • Discuss the use of App Launchpad • Onboard applications using App Launchpad 7 Working with vApps • Create and manage vApps • Deploy a vApp using various methods • Build a vApp using best practices • Discuss the vApp lease policies • Discuss the implications of deleting a VM that has a named disk attached to it • Describe VM encryption • Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted • Demonstrate how to use VM sizing and placement policies 8 Managing Catalogs and Templates • Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization. • Manage catalogs • Share catalogs • Discuss vApp templates • Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and Custom vApp or VM Properties • Define Catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations 9 VMware Cloud Director Networking • Discuss Container Service Extension • Discuss organization VDC networks • List the types of organization VDC networks • Describe the edge gateway services • Explain NSX Datacenter for vSphere architecture • Discuss NSX-T Datacenter architecture • List the enhanced VMware NSX-T Data Center supported features of VMware Cloud Director • Explore the services offered by the edge services gateway • Recognize the sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases • Discuss DHCP, NAT, and high availability services on the edge services gateway • Recognize SNAT and DNAT use cases • Explain load balancing, routing, and distributed firewall services • Create and manage vApp networks • List the various types of vApp networks • Discuss vApp fencing • Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks 10 Advanced Networking • Describe the multisite feature in Cloud Director • Associate Cloud Director sites • Associate organizations • Access multiple sites from a single user interface • Configure cross-VDC networking and L2 stretched networks • Configure data center groups • Explain the main usage and purpose of the NSX Migration of Cloud Director tool • Explain the environmental prerequisites and how to prepare the edge cluster for bridging 11 Additional Features • Discuss multisite deployments • Configure cross VDC networking • Define SDDC • Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy • Discuss enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal • Discuss architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director • Discuss vCloud Availability for vCloud Director portal • Review fail-over Virtual Machine options • Discuss on premises-to-cloud migration • Discuss enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal • Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with Cloud Director. • Execute Cloud Director workflows using vRealize Orchestrator. • Integrate vCloud Availability with Cloud Director • Understand Container Service Extension 12 Resource Monitoring and Feature Preview • Identify log locations for vCloud Director • Manage vSphere resources from vCloud Director • Manage cloud resources from vCloud Director • Understand monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director HTML5 Portal • Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager • Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager • Configure Cloud Director Management Pack • Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports • Introduce VMware vRealize Operations Tenant App • Integrate VMware Cloud Director with Tenant App • Configure Tenant App with VMware Cloud Director • Monitoring and billing objects with Tenant App • List the upcoming features |
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