VMware Cloud Director: Deploy, Configure, Manage [V.10.6]
This five-day course provides comprehensive training to install, configure, and manage an on-premises VMware Cloud Director environment. This course covers key features and functionality offered in the VMware Cloud Director. You will learn about workload provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), and catalog services that include predefined virtual machines. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines and vApps.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe the architecture and main components of VMware Cloud Director
- Understand the features and benefits of VMware Cloud Director
- Deploy the high availability VMware Cloud Director cluster
- Create VMware Cloud Director provider virtual data centers and organizations
- Configure and create vApps and VMs
- Create users and role-based access control
- Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
- Create and manage VMware Cloud Director networks
- Create VM sizing and placement policies
- Discuss additional features of VMware Cloud Director
TARGET AUDIENCE
Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment
PREREQUISITES
This course requires completion of the following course and equivalent knowledge:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] or equivalent knowledge
The following experience is helpful:
- Working at the Linux command line
- Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts
About the course
COURSE OUTLINE
MODULE 01 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
MODULE 02 Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Solution
- Discuss VMware Validated Solution
- Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
- Discuss multitenancy with VMware Cloud Director
- Recognize the design considerations when creatinga cloud environment on the SDDC using VMwareCloud Foundation™
MODULE 03 VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration
- Describe the VMware Cloud Director cell and servergroup
- Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware CloudDirector cells
- Demonstrate backing up and restoring a VMwareCloud Director appliance
- Discuss VMware Cloud Director ApplianceClustering
- Discuss failover mechanisms (automatic andmanual) with VMware Cloud Director cells
- Define the switchover, and promote options of theVMware Cloud Director appliance
MODULE 04 VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration
- Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware vCenter Server® and VMware NSX
- Describe how the compute resources are providedto VMware Cloud Director
- Describe how storage is provided to VMware CloudDirector
- Configure and manage storage for Virtual DataCenters (VDCs)
- Discuss network pools, external networks, andprovider gateways
- Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
- Understand organization policies
- Explain how to access an organization using variousportals
- Understand the use cases of Allocation Models
- Understand organization VDC
- Discuss Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning
MODULE 05 VMware Cloud Director User, Roles, and Quota Management
- Discuss rights bundle
- Describe role-based access
- Explain custom roles and rights
- Describe and configure LDAP integration withActive Directory
- Discuss OIDC integration with VMware CloudDirector
- Discuss configuring the SAML identity provider inVMware Cloud Director
- Discuss API Access Token and Service Accounts
- Explain Quota Management and its use cases
MODULE 06 VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps
- Understand standalone VMs
- Discuss deployment methods of virtual machines
- Explain VM properties
- Discuss deployment methods of vApps
- Discuss the vApp lease policies
- Understand the vApps and VM actions
- Explain vApp and VM badges
- Demonstrate auto scaling groups
MODULE 07 VMware Cloud Director Content Libraries
- Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create acatalog
- Discuss catalog management and sharing catalogs
- Understand media files in VMware Cloud Directorand their usage
- Discuss vApp templates
- Understand vApp template operations
- Discuss organization VDC templates
- Discuss Fast Cross vCenter Server vAppInstantiation Utilizing Shared Storage
MODULE 08 VMware Cloud Director Networking
- Discuss provider gateway, external networks
- Describe edge gateway
- Discuss organization VDC networks
- List the types of organization VDC networks
- Discuss vApp networks
- List the various types of vApp networks
MODULE 09 Edge Gateway Services and Additional Networking Features
- List the edge gateway services
- Discuss DHCP, NAT, and firewall services on theedge gateway
- Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT usecases
- Explain routing and distributed firewall services
- Understand IP space and its types
- Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration withVMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
- Describe the segment profile template
MODULE 10 VMware Cloud Director Storage and Compute
- Describe named disks and shared named disks
- Demonstrate how to attach and detach a nameddisk and a shared named disk
- Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disksare encrypted
- Discuss vCenter Server and VMware Cloud DirectorIOPS storage policies usage
- Discuss how to enable and use the storage IOPSlimitation in VMware Cloud Director
- Demonstrate VM sizing and placement in VMwareCloud Director
- Discuss vGPU implementation in VMware CloudDirector
MODULE 11 Additional Features of VMware Cloud Director
- Describe the usage and functionality of advisories
- Demonstrate quick search
- Discuss guided tours and use cases
- Discuss Transfer Server Storage Monitoring
- Demonstrate the VMware Cloud Director brandingthemes
- Explain the Solution Add-Ons feature in VmwareCloud Director
MODULE 12 VMware Cloud Director Integrated Solutions
- Briefly discuss VMware Cloud Director integrationwith the following solutions:
- VMware Cloud Director Availability
- VMware Cloud Director App Launchpad
- VMware Cloud Director ContainerService Extension
- VMware Cloud Director Object StorageExtension
- VMware vCloud Usage Meter
- VMware Aria Operations for Logs
- VMware Aria Operations
- VMware Chargeback
- VMware Aria Automation
- VMware Cloud Director Extension forData Solutions
- VMware Cloud Provider LifecycleManager
- Terraform
- VMware Workspace ONE
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