VMware vCloud Director: Tenant Operations [V10.x]

In this five-day course, you focus on configuring and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 10.x Tenant Operations. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of certain organization virtual data center networks, vApp and its networks, catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks.This course covers integrating vCloud Director with VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ and the use of VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director®. You will understand how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director. You will also understand how to use Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) for tenant users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™.

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

Understand role-based access control and custom roles
Manage a vCloud Director organization’s VDC and vApps
Manage virtual machines using sizing and placement policies
Create and share vCloud Director catalogs and vApp templates
Describe and use CPOM to view dedicated VMware vSphere® datacenters in the tenant portal
Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of VMware NSX®
Configure the integration with vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
Transfer virtual machine workloads from vSphere into and out of vCloud Director sites and between vCloud Director sites for customer onboarding
Manage multisite deployment as a tenant administrator
Know how to integrate vRealize Orchestrator and use the existing workflows
Monitor vCloud Director using vRealize Operations Manager
Know the new features of vCloud Director 10.x tenant operations

Course Outline

1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 - INTRODUCTION TO VCLOUD DIRECTOR, SERVICE PROVIDER, AND TENANT PORTAL

Explain vCloud Director concepts
Outline the preconfigured tasks by the service provider
Describe and understand the tenant portal use cases

3 - USER ACCESS CONTROL

Discuss users and groups
Understand the custom roles
List the user roles
Discuss role-based access control (RBAC)

4 - ADMINISTERING VIRTUAL MACHINES

Create a standalone virtual machine
Perform virtual machine operations
Manage virtual machine properties

5 - WORKING WITH VAPPS

Create virtual machines in a vApp
Manage catalogs
Share catalogs
Discuss vApp templates

6 - ORGANIZATION VDC NETWORKING

Understand organization VDC networks
List the types of organization VDC networks
Describe the edge gateway services
List the enhanced NSX-T supported features from the tenant portal

7 - VAPP NETWORKING

Create and manage vApp networks
List the various types of vApp networks
Discuss vApp fencing
Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks

8 - VCLOUD EXTENSIBILITY

Discuss vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
Migrate virtual machines from cloud to cloud
Migrate virtual machines from on-premises to cloud
Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with vCloud Director
Work with swagger, vCloud API, vCD CLI, and VMware PowerCLI™

9 - MULTISITE DEPLOYMENT AND CPOM

Discuss multisite deployments
Configure cross VDC networking
Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy
Use enhanced Central Point of Management (CPOM) through tenant portal

10 - MONITORING VCLOUD DIRECTOR RESOURCES

Monitor resources from the tenant portal
Monitor vCloud Director objects with vRealize Operations Manager
Understand dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reports

11 - VCLOUD DIRECTOR 10.X TENANT NEW FEATURE

Describe name disk feature
Describe VM sizing and VM placement policies
Describe object storage extension

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