VMware vCloud NFV with vCloud Director [V9.7]

Intended Audience: Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment

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

• Describe the VMware vCloud NFV architecture

• Describe the vCloud Director architecture as Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)

• Secure the deployment of multivendor virtual network functions (VNFs) on the vCloud NFV platform

• Manage vCloud Director to support NFV workloads in a secure, multitenant environment

• Configure VMware vSAN 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

• Use advanced services to manage VMware NSX from vCloud Director

Prerequisites: Completion of the following course is required:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] or equivalent knowledge Completion of the following eLearning courses is recommended:

• VMware vCloud Director: Fundamentals [V8.x]

• VMware vSAN and HCI Fundamentals

• VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

Outline: 1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives 2 vCloud NFV Overview

• Define the benefits of vCloud NFV

• Describe a sample vCloud NFV solution

• Describe the vCloud NFV architecture 3 NFV Infrastructure

• Compare physical and virtual infrastructures

• Describe the advantages and components of the NFV infrastructure (NFVI)

• Explain the role of network virtualization in the NFVI

• Describe the vSAN architecture and the differences between the vSAN hybrid and all-flash architectures

• Explain the purpose of virtual machine storage policies

• Describe network virtualization with NSX 4 Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)

• Describe the VMware products for the VIM layer

• Explain basic concepts related to vCloud Director

• Describe the relationship between provider VDCs (Virtual Data Centers) and organization VDCs

• Describe how vSAN integrates with vCloud Director

• Create vSAN storage policies

• Describe the components and basic configuration of the vCloud Director architecture

• Create resource pools 5 vCloud Providers

• Describe how compute and storage resources are provided to vCloud Director

• Describe provider VDC requirements and best practices

• Create provider VDCs

• Describe the VNF on-boarding process 6 vCloud Director Organizations

• Describe and create vCloud Director organizations

• Discuss vCloud Director HTML5 UI

• Discuss HTML5-based provider portal

• Discuss tenant portal

• Discuss the use cases of a vCloud Director organization VDC

• Discuss organization VDC allocation models

• Recognize resource allocations for an organization

• Examine the function and requirements of network pools.

• Describe the network types available in vCloud Director (external, organization, and vApp)

• Discuss the organization network types

• Create and manage organization VDC networks

• Add a catalog to an organization

• Populate, share, and publish catalogs

• Manage access to vApps and catalogs

• Modify the configuration of vApps and their virtual machines (VMs)

• Manage organization VDC networking

• Create affinity and anti-affinity rules 7 vCloud Director Security

• Describe role-based access

• Create custom security roles

• Integrate Directory Service with vCloud Director

• Integrate LDAP, SAML, SSL, Kerberos, and OAuth2 with vCloud Director

• Configure SSO 8 vCloud Director Networking

• Describe the use and placement of NSX EdgeTM services gateways in relation to vCloud Director

• Review routing with the distributed logical router and Edge services gateways in combination with vCloud Director

• Firewall management in vCloud Director with Edge services gateways and the distributed firewall

• Architecture of VMware NSX-T (Basic)

• vCloud Director supported features of NSX-T

• Discuss multisite

• Configure Cross VDC networking 9 Resource Management and Monitoring

• Manage provider and organization VDCs

• Manage VMware vCenter Server instances and VMware ESXi hosts

• Manage vSphere datastores

• Manage resource pools at the vSphere level

• Monitor usage information at provider and organization VDCs

• Use the cell management tool

• Manage provider VDC and Org-VDC

• Monitor vCloud Director environments with VMware vRealize Operations Manager

• Monitor vCloud Director environments with vRealize Log Insight

• Describe the components for NVFI operations management

• Use VMware vRealize BusinessTM for cost management

• Review historical virtual machine metrics in vCloud Director

• View vCloud Director logs 10 vCloud Extensibility

• Introduce container service extension

• Explore vCloud Director CLI

• Use Python SDK for vApp deployment

• Discuss Terraform vCloud Director capabilities

• Use VMware vRealize OrchestratorTM Plug-in for vCloud Director 11 Day 2 Operations

• Identify log locations for vCloud Director

• Navigate through vCloud Director logs

• Capture vCloud Director log bundles