CMDBID: 111322 | Course Code: NFV | Duration: 5 Days
Overview>
This five-day, hands-on training course discusses Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), a network architecture concept that specifies how virtualization technologies can be used to virtualize network service functions.
This course also covers interfacing VMware vCloud Director with other systems using various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director . You will also understand how to manage multisite, cross-VDC (Virtual Data Center) networking for vCloud Director and how to configure Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) for tenant and provider users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize Operations , Tenant vApp, and VMware vRealize Log Insight .
This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware vCloud NFV with vCloud Director [V9.7] - On Demand.
Product Alignment
vCloud Director 9.x
VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director 3.0
VMware vSphere 6.x and later
NSX 6.x and later
Audience>
Intended Audience: Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment
Skills Gained>
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>
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>
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
Our Clients
Our clients have included prestigious national organisations such as Oxford University Press, multi-national private corporations such as JP Morgan and HSBC, as well
as public sector institutions such as the Department of Defence and the Department of Health.