In this five-day instructor-led course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director 10.5.1. You will learn how to set up and manage VMware Cloud Director, including the provisioning of workloads, creating organisations and Virtual Data Centers (VDCs), and use catalog services that include predefined virtual machines. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organisation administrator can configure and use with virtual machines and vApps.
Product alignment:
VMware Cloud Director 10.5.1
VMware vSphere® 8.0U2
VMware NSX 4.1.2
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer 22.1.5
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What you’ll learn
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe the architecture and main components of VMware Cloud Director
Explain the features and benefits of VMware Cloud Director
Deploy high availability VMware Cloud Director cluster
Create VMware Cloud Director provider virtual data centers and organisations
Configure and create vApps and VMs
Create users and role-based access control
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director networks
Create VM sizing and placement policies
Discuss additional features of VMware Cloud Director
VMware at Lumify Work
VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technologies. Lumify Work is the largest VMware Authorized Training Center (VATC) in Australia and New Zealand, offering training in vSphere, Aria Suite, vRealize, vSAN, NSX, and VMware Cloud Foundation courses.
Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.
Course subjects
1. Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
2. VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration
Describe VMware Cloud Director features and functions
Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture
List the prerequisites for deploying VMware Cloud Director
Recognise the design considerations when creating a cloud environment
Describe various VMware Cloud Director deployment methods and options
Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
Backup and restore a VMware Cloud Director appliance
Describe the appliance failover methods
Describe failover, switchover, and promote in the VMware Cloud Director appliance
Monitor the VMware Cloud Director appliance services and cluster status
3. VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration
Describe the provider portal
Define a provider VDC, an organisation, and organisation VDCs
Configure VMware Cloud Director objects from the VMware Cloud Director provider portal as a system administrator
Describe provider VDCs and their role in resource allocation
Explain the configuration of resource pools and storage containers in a provider VDC
Configure organisations and access the tenant portal
Identify allocation models for organisation VDCs
Recognise the advantages and disadvantages of allocation models
Describe how organisation VDCs work
4. VMware Cloud Director User, Roles, and Quota Management
Configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
Enable a SAML and an OIDC identity provider
Identify the various types of users in VMware Cloud Director
Create and import users from the provider portal and the tenant portal
Describe the options for managing users and groups
Describe how role-based access control works in VMware Cloud Director
Explain provider roles
Recognise the function of the rights bundles
Explain global roles and their usage in VMware Cloud Director
Create custom tenant roles
Explain Quota Management and its use cases
Configure VMware Cloud Director as an OpenID Provider Proxy Server
5. VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps
Explain standalone VMs and VMs in a vApp
Describe VM actions
List the properties of a VM
Create and manage VMs
Explain vApp deployment methods
Explain vApp actions and functions
Describe VM encryption and how VMs and disks are encrypted
Describe named disks and shared named disks
Describe storage IOPS management in VMware Cloud Director
Create and manage vCenter Server managed IOPS
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director managed IOPS
Describe Auto Scale Groups and their advantages
Explain VM placement, VM sizing, and vGPU policies
Describe NVIDIA vGPU and NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Explain the NVIDIA GRID vGPU requirements
Implement vGPU in VMware Cloud Director
6. Managing Catalogs and Templates
Describe Content Hubb and their advantages
Create and manage VMware Marketplace Resource
Create and manage External Helm Chart Repository Resource
Explain the purpose and use of catalogs
Create and manage catalogs
Describe, how catalogs are shared between and within organisations
Describe vApp templates and their advantages
Create and manage the vApp template
Create and manage the organisation VDC template
7. VMware Cloud Director Networking
Discuss the integration of VMware Cloud Director with VMware NSX
Describe VMware Cloud Director networks
Perform provider networking tasks
Discuss organisation VDC networks
List the types of organisation VDC networks
Discuss vApp networks
List the various types of vApp networks
Describe the segment profile template
8. Edge Gateway Services and Additional Networking Features
Identify the services offered by an edge gateway
Configure DHCP, NAT, and firewall services on the edge gateway
Explain distributed firewall services on an edge gateway
Describe DNS, routing, and DHCP services on an edge gateway
Configure and verify NAT services on the edge gateway
Discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer components.
Discuss the Data Center Group Networking in VMware Cloud Director
Discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware NSX Federation
9. Additional Features of VMware Cloud Director
Explain the purpose and features of advisories.
Describe the Guided Tour feature and its use cases
Configure VMware Cloud Director branding
Explain the Solution Add-Ons feature in Vmware Cloud Director
Briefly discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with the following solutions:
VMware Cloud Director Availability
VMware Cloud Director App Launchpad
VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
VMware vCloud Usage Meter
VMware Aria Operations for Logs
VMware Aria Operations
VMware Chargeback
VMware Aria Automation
VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions
VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of the following course:
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