VMware vCloud Director Install Configure Manage

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DDLS - VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage

Length

5 days

Price

$5830.00 inc GST

Version

9.x

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Overview

In this five-day course, you will focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director® 9.x for service providers.

You will learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), and catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks, as well as the integrated use of VMware vSAN™. This course also covers interfacing vCloud Director with other systems through the use of various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director® and VMware vCloud® Director Extender™.

Product Alignment

vCloud Director 9.x
vCloud Availability for vCloud Director 2.0
vCloud Director Extender 1.0
vSphere 6.x and later
NSX 6.x and later

Key Topics

Detailed Info

Software-Defined Data Center
vCloud Director Concepts
Organization VDC
Virtual Machines and vApps
Catalog
Users and Role-Based Access
AdvancedNetworking
Resource Management and Monitoring
1Customer Onboarding and Hybrid Cloud
vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
vCloud Director Installation
vCloud Director API and Metadata

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Skills Gained

Key Topics

Target Audiences

Prerequisites

Skills Gained

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

Design a vCloud Director environment
Deploy vCloud Director
Manage vCloud Director to satisfy service provider needs
Configure vSAN and VMware vSphere® storage 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
Transfer virtual machine workloads from 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 a public cloud and a private cloud
Create an interface between vCloud Director and Microsoft Active Directory servers
Discuss various customer onboarding scenarios with vCloud Director

Key Topics

1. Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2. Software-Defined Data Center

Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
Cloud computing overview
Characteristics of cloud services
Categories of cloud computing
Describe the VMware product stack for the software-defined data center

3. vCloud Director Concepts

Explain vCloud Director concepts
Configure and manage provider VDCs
Identify storage, compute, and network resources for vCloud Director
Create and manage organizations
vCloud Director organization VDCs

4. Organization VDC

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

5. Virtual Machines and vApps

Discuss the use of virtual machines
Design and manage vApps

6. Catalog

Create and manage catalogs
Manage vApp templates

7. 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

8. AdvancedNetworking

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

9. 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 VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ and VMware vRealize® Log Insight™
Use VMware vRealize® Business™ for cost management

10. Customer Onboarding and Hybrid Cloud

Tenant layer 2 VPN access
Tenant SSL VPN access
Review options for external connectivity with VPN
Import existing infrastructure managed by vCenter Server into vCloud Director
Use vCloud Director Extender for hybrid cloud setup and onboarding

11. vCloud Availability for vCloud Director

Architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
Prerequisites of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
Implementation of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director

12. vCloud Director Installation

vCloud Director network, hardware, and software requirements
vCloud Director setup overview
vCloud Director cell design
Install and configure the vCloud Director database (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle database, or PostgreSQL)
Create SSL certificates
Configure VMware NSX® Manager™ for a new vCloud Director installation
Install and configure an AMQP broker
Download and install the VMware public key
Use and set up vCloud Director federation

13. vCloud Director API and Metadata

Describe tools to access the API of vCloud Director
Use of REST API in VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™
Describe access to vCloud Director using VMware PowerCLI™
Create and update metadata on objects

14. (Optional) vCloud Director Upgrade

vCloud Director upgrade overview
Upgrade prerequisites
NSX requirements
Additional information
Best practice for upgrades

Target Audiences

Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in a service provider or managed services environment

Prerequisites

This course requires completion of the following course:

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] or equivalent knowledge

This course recommends completion of the following e-learning courses:

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

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