VMware vCloud Director® – Install, Configure, Manage V9.7

VMware vCloud Director® - Install, Configure, Manage V9.7

In this course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 9.x. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks.

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

Deploy vCloud Director
Manage vCloud Director to satisfy service provider needs
Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere® into and out of vCloud Director
Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
Use NSX to create hybrid cloud connectivity between public clouds and private clouds
Discuss various customer onboarding scenarios involving vCloud Director
Configure the integration with VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director®
Use VMware vCloud® Availability for hybrid cloud setup and onboarding

Course Outline

1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 - VCLOUD DIRECTOR DEPLOYMENT AND CONFIGURATION

Define Software Defined Datacenter
Discuss VMware offerings for Cloud-Based Services
Understand the prerequisite to install vCloud Director
Discuss the deployment options for vCloud Director
Differentiate different deployment options, benefits, and disadvantages
Discuss VMware Validated Design

3 - VCLOUD DIRECTOR PROVIDER AND ORGANIZATION

Configure and manage provider VDCs
Identify storage, compute, and network resources for vCloud Director
Create and manage organizations, including vCloud Director organization VDCs
Discuss vCloud Director HTML5 UI
Discuss HTML5-based Provider Portal and Tenant Portal

4 - VCLOUD DIRECTOR ORGANIZATION VDC

Organization VDC allocation models
Recognize resource allocations for an organization
Describe the network types available in vCloud Director (external, organization, and vApp)
Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
Examine the function of network pools
Discuss Compute Profiles

5 - VAPPS AND CATALOGS

Discuss the use of virtual machines
Design and manage vApps
Create and manage catalogs
Manage vApp templates
Create and Manage vApp Networks
Discuss vApp Network Traffic Choices

6 - USERS AND ROLE-BASED ACCESS

Describe role-based access
Create custom security roles
Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
Describe single sign-on
Enable a SAML identity provider
Describe two-factor authentication
Discuss User bundle and role-based access control

7 - 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 gateway in combination with vCloud Director
Discuss edge services like NAT, DHCP, load balancer, and firewall
Discuss the architecture of VMware NSX-T™
Discuss vCloud Director supported features of NSX-T
Discuss Multisite
Configure Cross VDC Networking

8 - RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING

Manage provider and organization VDCs
Manage VMware vCenter Server® instances and VMware ESXi™ hosts
Manage vSphere datastores
Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
Monitor usage information at provider and organization VDCs
Analyze vCloud Director logs
Monitor vCloud Director environments with vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Log Insight
Managing billing and reports of vCloud Director objects using Tenant vApp

9 - VCLOUD EXTENSIBILITY

Discuss Container Service Extension
Explore vCD CLI
Discuss Python SDK for vApp Deployment
Discuss Terraform vCloud Director capabilities
Discuss VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ Plug-in for vCloud Director

10 - VCLOUD DIRECTOR APIS

Describe access to vCD objects using REST API calls
Describe tools to access the API of vCloud Director objects
Discuss different third-party API client tools
Describe access to vCloud Director using Postman, Curl
Describe access to vCloud Director using OpenAPI
Create and update metadata on objects
Access different vCloud Objects using vCloud API

11 - CUSTOMER ONBOARDING AND HYBRID CLOUD

Discuss architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
Review prerequisites of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
Discuss implementation of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
Discuss vCloud Availability for vCloud Director portal
Review fail-over Virtual Machine options
Discuss Virtual Machine replication to the Cloud
Discuss On-prem to Cloud migration

12 - VCLOUD DIRECTOR TROUBLESHOOTING

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.