VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.1]

• Customers
• Cloud architects, systems engineers
• Data center administrators and Cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment

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

• Completion of the following course is required: VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (VSICM) or equivalent knowledge

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

•   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