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