VMware vRealize Automation: Design and Deploy [V7.6]

Intended Audience: VMware consultants and partners who need to deploy vRealize Automation on an enterprise scale

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

• Understand and apply enterprise design principles

• Design and deploy a tiered VMware vSphere resource architecture for CPU, storage, and network resources, including VMware NSX

• Understand and apply VMware Validated Design (VVD) design principles

• Design and deploy a vRealize Automation distributed infrastructure for an enterprise cloud

• Design and deploy an SSO architecture which includes LDAP and Active Directory integration to support the enterprise cloud infrastructure

• Understand the layers in the enterprise cloud

• Design and deploy an authority architecture of roles for an enterprise cloud

• Design and deploy a tenant and business group architecture for an enterprise cloud

• Design and deploy naming conventions related to your tenant and business group design

• Design and deploy compute resources, reservation policies, network profiles, and reservations to support your enterprise cloud

• Design and deploy approval mechanisms to support your authority architecture

• Extend the capabilities of vRealize Automation with VMware vRealize Orchestrator

• Integrate vRealize Automation with external systems such as IP address management systems and asset management systems

• Use VMware vRealize Operations to manage and monitor day 2 operations

• Use VMware vRealize Log Insight to manage and monitor distributed vRealize Automation deployments

• Describe the capabilities and use cases for vRealize Suite Lifecycle manager

Prerequisites: This class requires understanding the concepts and topics presented in the following courses:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x]

• VMware vRealize Automation: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.x]

Outline: 1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives 2 Enterprise Design Principles

• Create a design foundation for an enterprise cloud by identifying business requirements, typical business solutions, constraints, assumptions, and risks

• Create a conceptual design for an enterprise cloud

• Create a logical design for an enterprise cloud

• Use key enterprise design principles to create a vSphere infrastructure for the enterprise cloud

• Understanding the role of VMware Validated Designs in Software-Defined Datacenter 3 Security Infrastructure

• Design a certificate authority architecture

• Create certificate signing requests for your vRealize Automation servers

• Create certificates for your vRealize Automation servers

• Identify the steps required to secure a vRealize Automation deployment

• Use vRealize Automation's embedded VMware Identity Manager 4 vRealize Automation Distributed Architecture

• Design and deploy the vRealize Automation solution in a highly available, distributed architecture

• Identify the components of a distributed vRealize Automation deployment

• Describe the proper configuration of NSX load balancers for a highly available, distributed architecture 5 Administration Role Architecture

• Understand the layers in the enterprise cloud

• Describe the administration role architecture models that can be used in vRealize Automation

• Design an enterprise administration role architecture 6 Tenants and Business Groups

• Design an optimum tenant and business group architecture for your enterprise cloud, using either a single-tenant or a multitenant model

• Design a multitenant cloud architecture with multiple business groups, with infrastructure configuration only in default tenant.

• Design a multitenant cloud architecture with multiple business groups, with infrastructure configuration in each tenant. 7 Cloud Resource Design in vRealize Automation

• Design an enterprise cloud that is based on a multitiered architecture

• Design naming standards in vRealize Automation to support your tenant-and-business group architecture

• Use composite blueprints in an enterprise deployment

• Use data center location in an enterprise deployment to control where systems are provisioned

• Design a unified self-service catalog

• Design service entitlements in an enterprise deployment

• Design and use governance and approvals 8 Extensibility in the Enterprise Cloud

• Describe the role of vRealize Orchestrator in vRealize Automation extensibility

• Create event broker subscriptions

• Configure workflow subscriptions

• Use IaaS extensibility and the vRealize Automation event broker system 9 Enterprise Management

• Use VMware vRealize Operations Manager and the vRealize Automation management pack

• Use vRealize Log Insight in vRealize Automation enterprise management

• Describe the capabilities and use cases for VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

• Replace expired security certificates