In this five-day course, you will focus on designing, installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director® 8.10 for service providers. You will learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers, and catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks as well as the integrated use of VMware Virtual SAN™. This course also covers interfacing vCloud Director with other systems through the use of various APIs.
Product Alignment• vCloud Director 8.10• Virtual SAN 6.2• NSX 6.2
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
- Describe vSphere
- Describe NSX
- Describe Virtual SAN
- Cloud computing overview
- Characteristics of cloud services
- Categories of cloud computing
- VMware offering to enable cloud-based services
- Cloud deployment environments
- VMware vCloud® Air™ network program overview
- Describe vCloud Director in relation to service provider or managed services environments
- vCloud Director architecture
- Review vCloud Director components and explain their functions
- Examine integration with other VMware products, such as VMware vRealize® Business for Cloud, VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™, NSX, and Virtual SAN
- vCloud Director terms: vApp and catalog
- vCloud Director terms: organization and virtual data center
- Network concepts
- vCloud Director supported storage
- Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
- Configure and manage storage for providers
- Examine provider space allocation to an organization
- Manage storage requirements for linked clones and shadow virtual machines
- Describe the use cases for Virtual SAN, VMware vSphere® Virtual Volumes™, and legacy storage
- Create and manage organizations
- Organization virtual data center allocation models
- Recognize resource allocations for an organization
- Create and manage catalogs
- Manage vApps and vApp templates
- Describe the basic NSX components in relation to vCloud Director
- Describe the network types available in vCloud Director (external, org, vApp)
- Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
- Examine the function of network pools
- Explain how to share content between organizations and vApps
- Describe options to connect a private cloud to a public cloud
- Review options for external connectivity with VPN
- 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
- Identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
- Manage provider and organization virtual data centers
- Manage VMware vCenter Server® instances
- Manage VMware ESXi™ hosts
- Manage vSphere datastores
- Manage stranded items
- Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
- Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual data centers
- Analyze vCloud Director logs to mirror vCloud Director cells
- Monitor vCloud Director environments with vRealize Operations Manager and VMware vRealize® Log Insight™
- Leverage vRealize Business for cost management
- Describe tools to access the API of vCloud Director
- Use of REST API in VMware vRealize Orchestrator
- Describe access to vCloud Director using VMware vSphere PowerCLI
- Create and update metadata on objects
- vCloud Director setup overview
- vCloud Director hardware and software requirements
- vCloud Director supported platforms
- Network configuration prerequisites
- Install and configure the vCloud Director database
- Configure an Oracle database and a Microsoft SQL Server database
- Create SSL certificates
- Configure VMware NSX® Manager™ for a new vCloud Director installation
- Install and configure an AMQP broker
- Download and install the VMware public key
- vRealize Business integration with vCloud Director
- vCloud Director upgrade overview
- Upgrade prerequisites
- NSX requirements
- Additional information
- Best practice for upgrades
Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in a service provider or managed services environment
This course requires completion of the following course:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6] or equivalent knowledge
This course recommends completion of the following e-learning courses:
• VMware vCloud Director: Fundamentals [V8.10]
• VMware Virtual SAN: Fundamentals [V6.2]
• VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals
Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Design a vCloud Director environment
- Deploy vCloud Director
- Manage vCloud Director to satisfy service provider needs
- Configure Virtual SAN and VMware vSphere® storage to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual data centers
- Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
- Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
- Transfer virtual machine workloads from vSphere into and out of vCloud Director
- Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
- Use NSX to create hybrid cloud connectivity between a public cloud and a private cloud
- Create an interface between vCloud Director and Microsoft Active Directory servers
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