VMware® NFV with vCloud Director v9.7

This 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.

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

Course Outline

1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 - VCLOUD NFV

Define the benefits of vCloud NFV
Describe a sample vCloud NFV solution
Describe the vCloud NFV architecture

3 - NFV INFRASTRUCTURE (NFVI)

Compare physical and virtual infrastructures
Describe the advantages and components of NFVI
Explain the role of network virtualization in the NFVI
Compare physical and virtual infrastructures
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® Edge™ 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 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® Business™ for cost management
Review historical virtual machine metrics in vCloud Director
View vCloud Director logs

10 - VCLOUD EXTENSIBILITY

Introduction to container service extension
Explore vCloud Director CLI
Use Python SDK for vApp deployment
Discuss Terraform vCloud Director capabilities
Use vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in for vCloud Director

11 - DAY 2 VCLOUD NFV OPERATIONS

Identify log locations for vCloud Director
Navigate through vCloud Director logs
Capture vCloud Director log bundles

Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.