VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.3]
This five-day course focuses on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director® 10.3. You learn about workload provisioning, organization creation, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services including pre-built virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX-T™ Data Center networks.
This course also covers interfacing VMware Cloud Director with other systems and integrating and using VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ for VMware Cloud Director. Explains the different networks that a system administrator and an enterprise administrator can set up and use with virtual machines (VMs). The course also demonstrates how to monitor various VMware Cloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™.
COD: VCDICM103
Categorie: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.
Prerequisites
Completion of the following courses or equivalent knowledge is required:
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
Also, it is welcome but not necessary:
- Know how to work at the Linux command line
- Substantial knowledge of general network concepts
Outgoing knowledge/skills
At the end of the course, the user should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Implementare VMware Cloud Director
- Manage VMware Cloud Director to meet the needs of service providers.
- Create and manage VMware Cloud Director organizations and vApps to meet your business needs.
- Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
- Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere® to and from VMware Cloud Director.
- Set up networking for organizations and vApps with help from VMware NSX-T™ Data Center.
- Manage resources from the VMware Cloud Director console and using VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™.
- Enable encryption of virtual machines and named disks
- Create virtual machine sizing and placement policies
- Understand vApp and VM operations and actions
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Design
- Defining the software-defined data center (SDDC)
- Discuss VMware offerings for cloud-based services
- Discuss VMware Cloud Director deployment options.
- Discuss VMware Validated Design™.
- Recognize design considerations when building a cloud environment on the SDDC using VMWare Cloud Foundation™
3 VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration
- Discuss VMware Cloud Director deployment options.
- Explain the two-phase deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells.
- Discuss failover mechanisms (automatic and manual) with VMware Cloud Director cells.
- Define switchover, promotion, and shielding options for the VMware Cloud Director appliance.
- Understand the VMware Cloud Director appliance enhancements
4 VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration
- Describe how compute resources are provisioned 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.
- Discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with vCenter Server® and NSX-T Data Center.
- Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
- Understand the organization’s policies
- Explain how to access an organization using various portals.
- Understand your organization’s VDCs
- Discuss what Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning are
- Understand the use cases of allocation models
5 VMware Cloud Director User, Roles and Quota Management
- Discuss the user package
- Describe role-based access
- Explain custom roles and rights
- Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
- Discuss OIDC authentication methods
- Describe the SAML identity provider
6 VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps
- Understand standalone virtual machines
- Discuss the operations of managing virtual machines
- Explain the properties of virtual machines
- Discuss vApp deployment methods
- Discuss vApp management operations
- Discuss vApp leasing policies
- Understand the actions of vApps and virtual machines
- Explain vApp and virtual machine badges
7 VMware Cloud Director content libraries
- Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization.
- Define the management of catalogs and their sharing within and between organizations.
- Explain the media in VMware Cloud Director and their usage.
- Discuss vApp templates
- Understand vApp template operations
- Describe the purpose and use of Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
- Discuss your organization’s VDC models
8 VMware Cloud Director Networking
- Discuss your organization’s VDC networks
- List the types of organization VDC networks
- Describe the edge gateway services
- Explore the services offered by the edge gateway
- Discuss suballocation IP pool and its use cases
- Discutere i servizi DHCP, NAT, load balancer e firewall sull’edge gateway
- Discusse i casi d’uso di SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT e NO DNAT
- Discuss vApp networks
- List the various types of vApp networks
- Discuss routed, isolated, and directed 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 named disk sharing methods
- Discuss the implications of deleting VMs that have a named disk attached.
- Discuss how to encrypt VMware Cloud Director virtual machines and disks.
- Explain the functionality of archiving policies
- Demonstrate how VM sizing and placement policies are published.
- Discuss the use of vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Director storage IOPS policies.
- Discuss enabling and using storage IOPS throttling in VMware Cloud Director.
- Describe the entities supported by the storage policy
10 Extensibility and UI Additional Features
- Explain personalized recommendations, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts and quick search.
- Understand the commands supported by vcd-cli
- Discuss the 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 object monitoring from VMware Cloud Director portals.
- Introdurre brevemente vRealize Operations Manager
- Integrare VMware Cloud Director con vRealize Operations Manager
- Configurare VMware Cloud Director Management Pack
- Understand the dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition and reports
Duration – 5 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Instructor: English
Labs: English
Slides: English
