In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director® 10.3. You learn about workload provisioning, the creation of organisations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX-T™ Data Center networks.
This course also covers interfacing VMware Cloud Director with other systems and the integration and use of VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ for VMware Cloud Director. You learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organisation administrator can configure and use with virtual machines (VMs). This course also discusses how to monitor various VMware Cloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™.
Product Alignment • VMware vSphere 7.0 U2 • VMware Cloud Director 10.3 • VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.1.1 • VMware vRealize Operations Manager 8.3
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What you’ll learn
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Deploy VMware Cloud Director
Manage VMware Cloud Director to meet the service provider needs
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director organisations and vApps to fulfill business needs
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere® into and out of VMware Cloud Director
Configure networking for organisations and vApps with the help of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center
Managing resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console and using VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
Enabling VM and Named Disk Encryption
Creating VM sizing and placement policies
Understand vApps and VM operations and actions
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From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
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No matter your chosen technologies or platforms, we can help you stay one step ahead.
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
30 years driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions
More Courses, More Often
When you train with DDLS you get more courses, more often, in more locations and from more vendors.
Quality instructors and content
Expert instructors with real world experience and the latest vendor- approved in-depth course content.
Partner-Preferred Supplier
Chosen and awarded by the world’s leading vendors as preferred training partner.
Ahead of the technology curve
No matter your chosen technologies or platforms, we can help you stay one step ahead.
Train Anywhere
From our state-of-the-art classrooms to telepresence to your offices, our instructor-led training caters to your needs.
Track Record
30 years driving innovative, award-winning learning solutions
More Courses, More Often
When you train with DDLS you get more courses, more often, in more locations and from more vendors.
Who is the course for?
Cloud architects, systems engineers, datacenter 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. Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Design
Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
Discuss VMware offerings for cloud-based services
Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
Discuss VMware Validated Design™
Recognise the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC using VMWare Cloud Foundation™
3. VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration
Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
Discuss failover mechanisms (automatic and manual) with VMware Cloud Director cells
Define switchover, promote, and fencing options of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
Understand the VMware Cloud Director appliance enhancements
4. VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration
Describe how the compute resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director
Describe how storage is provided to VMware Cloud Director
Configure and manage storage for Virtual Datacenters (VDCs)
Briefly discuss network pools, external networks, and Tier-0 Gateways
Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with vCenter Server® and NSX-T Data Center
Describe VMware Cloud Director organisations
Understand organisation policies
Explain how to access an organisation using various portals
Understand organisation VDC
Discuss what is Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning
Understand the use cases of Allocation Models
5. VMware Cloud Director User, Roles and Quota Management
Discuss user-bundle
Describe role-based access
Explain custom roles and rights
Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
Discuss OIDC authentication methods
Describe SAML identity provider
6. VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps
Understand standalone VMs
Discuss the VM managing operations
Explain VM properties
Discuss deployment methods of vApps
Discuss the vApp managing operations
Discuss the vApp lease policies
Understand the vApps and VM actions
Explain vApp and VM badges
7. VMware Cloud Director Content Libraries
Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organisation
Define catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organisations
Explain medias in VMware Cloud Director and its usage
Discuss vApp templates
Understand vApp template operations
Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualisation Format (OVF)
Discuss organisation VDC templates
8. VMware Cloud Director Networking
Discuss organisation VDC networks
List the types of organisation VDC networks
Describe the edge gateway services
Explore the services offered by the edge gateway
Discuss sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases
Discuss DHCP, NAT, load balancer, and firewall services on the edge gateway
Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT use cases
Discuss vApp networks
List the various types of vApp networks
Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks
9. VMware Cloud Director Storage and Compute
Describe named disks and shared named disks
Demonstrate how to attach and detach a named disk and a shared named disk
Describe methods of sharing the named disk
Discuss the implications of deleting VMs that have an attached named disk
Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted
Explain the storage policy capabilities
Demonstrate how VM sizing and placement policies are published
Discuss vCenter server and VMware Cloud Director IOPS storage policies usage
Discuss how to enable and use the storage IOPS limitation in VMware Cloud Director
Describe the storage policy supported entities
10. Extensibility and UI Additional Features
Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts, and quick search
Understand vcd-cli supported commands
Discuss various vcd-cli tools
11. VMware Cloud Director Resource Monitoring
Identify log locations for VMware Cloud Director
Manage vSphere and cloud resources from VMware Cloud Director
Understand monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director portals
Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager
Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager
Configure VMware Cloud Director Management Pack
Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of the following course:
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