VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.3]
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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® 10.3. 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-T™ Data Center networks.
This course also covers interfacing VMware Cloud Director with other systems and the integration and use of VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ for VMware Cloud Director. You learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines (VMs). This course also discusses how to monitor various VMware Cloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™. This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.3] - On Demand. Product Alignment • VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 • VMware Cloud Director 10.3 • VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1.1 • VMware vRealize Operations Manager 8.3 |
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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 • Managing resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console and using VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ • Enabling VM and Named Disk Encryption • Creating VM sizing and placement policies • Understand vApps and VM operations and actions |
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| Intended Audience: | Cloud architects, systems engineers, datacenter administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment. | |
| Prerequisites: | Completion of the following courses and equivalent knowledge is required: • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.x] or equivalent knowledge The following experience is helpful: • Working at the Linux command line • Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts |
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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 (SDDC) • Discuss VMware offerings for cloud-based services • Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director • Discuss VMware Validated Design™ • Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC using VMWare Cloud Foundation™ 3 VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration • Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director • Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells • Discuss failover mechanisms (automatic and manual) with VMware Cloud Director cells • Define switchover, promote, and fencing options of the VMware Cloud Director appliance • Understand the VMware Cloud Director appliance enhancements 4 VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration • 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) • Briefly discuss network pools, external networks, and Tier-0 Gateways • Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with vCenter Server® and NSX-T Data Center • Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations • Understand organization policies • Explain how to access an organization using various portals • Understand organization VDC • Discuss what is Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning • Understand the use cases of Allocation Models 5 VMware Cloud Director User, Roles and Quota Management • Discuss user-bundle • Describe role-based access • Explain custom roles and rights • Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory • Discuss OIDC authentication methods • Describe SAML identity provider 6 VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps • Understand standalone VMs • Discuss the VM managing operations • Explain VM properties • Discuss deployment methods of vApps • Discuss the vApp managing operations • Discuss the vApp lease policies • Understand the vApps and VM actions • Explain vApp and VM badges 7 VMware Cloud Director Content Libraries • Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization • Define catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations • Explain medias in VMware Cloud Director and its usage • Discuss vApp templates • Understand vApp template operations • Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVF) • Discuss organization VDC templates 8 VMware Cloud Director Networking • Discuss organization VDC networks • List the types of organization VDC networks • Describe the edge gateway services • Explore the services offered by the edge gateway • Discuss sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases • Discuss DHCP, NAT, load balancer, and firewall services on the edge gateway • Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT use cases • Discuss vApp networks • List the various types of vApp networks • Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks 9 VMware Cloud Director Storage and Compute • Describe named disks and shared named disks • Demonstrate how to attach and detach a named disk and a shared named disk • Describe methods of sharing the named disk • Discuss the implications of deleting VMs that have an attached named disk • Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted • Explain the storage policy capabilities • Demonstrate how VM sizing and placement policies are published • Discuss vCenter server and VMware Cloud Director IOPS storage policies usage • Discuss how to enable and use the storage IOPS limitation in VMware Cloud Director • Describe the storage policy supported entities 10 Extensibility and UI Additional Features • Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts, and quick search • Understand vcd-cli supported commands • Discuss various vcd-cli tools 11 VMware Cloud Director Resource Monitoring • Identify log locations for VMware Cloud Director • Manage vSphere and cloud resources from VMware Cloud Director • Understand monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director portals • Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager • Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager • Configure VMware Cloud Director Management Pack • Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports |
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