VMware vCloud Director: Tenant Operations [V10.x]

Experienced service provider customers, system engineers, data center administrators, and tenant administrators with experience in a managed services environment

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Understand role-based access control and custom roles
• Manage vCloud Director organizations' VDC and vApps
• Manage VMs using sizing and placement policies
• Create and share vCloud Director catalogs and vApp templates
• Describe and use CPOM to view dedicated VMware vSphere datacenters in the tenant portal
• Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
• Configure the integration with vCloud Availability
• Transfer VM workloads from vSphere into and out of vCloud Director sites and between vCloud Director sites for customer onboarding
• Manage multisite deployment as a tenant administrator
• Know how to integrate vRealize Orchestrator and use the existing workflows
• Monitor vCloud Director using VMware vRealize Operations ManagerTM
• Know the new features of vCloud Director 10.x tenant operations

This course requires completion of one of the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage

1- Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2- Introduction to vCloud Director, Service Provider, and Tenant Portal

• Explain vCloud Director concepts
• Outline the preconfigured tasks by the service provider
• Describe and understand the tenant portal use cases

3- User Access Control

• Discuss users and groups
• Understand the custom roles
• List the user roles
• Discuss role-based access control (RBAC)

4- Working with Virtual Machines

• Create a standalone VM
• Perform VM operations
• Manage VM properties

5- Working with vApps

• Create VMs in a vApp
• Manage catalogs
• Share catalogs
• Discuss vApp templates

6- Organization VDC Networking

• Understand organization VDC networks
• List the types of organization VDC networks
• Describe the edge gateway services
• List the enhanced NSX-T supported features from the tenant portal

7- vApp Networking

• Create and manage vApp networks
• List the various types of vApp networks
• Discuss vApp fencing
• Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks

8- vCloud Availability

• Discuss vCloud Availability and its integration with vCloud Director
• Migrate VMs from cloud to cloud
• Migrate VMs from on-premises to cloud

9- vCloud Extensibility

• Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with vCloud Director
• Work with swagger, vCloud API, vCD CLI, and VMware PowerCLI

10- Multisite Deployment and CPOM

• Discuss multisite deployments
• Configure cross VDC networking
• Define SDDC
• Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy
• Use enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal

11- Monitoring and Managing vCloud Director Resources

• Monitor resources from the tenant portal
• Monitor vCloud Director objects with vRealize Operations Manager
• Understand dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reports

12- vCloud Director 10.x Tenant New Feature

• Describe name disk feature
• Describe VM sizing and VM placement policies
• Describe object storage extension