Course Outline
1.Course Introduction
2.Design Principles and Process
3.Service Definition and Standardization
4.vCloud Director Architecture and Components
5.vCloud Director Virtual Data Center Design
6.Cloud Management and Resource Components
7.vCloud Director Integrations
8.vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
9.Customer Onboarding
1.Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2.Design Principles and Process
- Follow a proven process to design and deploy a cloud solution
- Define customer business objectives
- Gather and analyze business and application requirements
- Document design requirements, constraints, assumptions, and risks
- Use a systematic method to evaluate and document design decisions
- Explain the differences between conceptual, logical, and physical designs
3.Service Definition and Standardization
- Describe the technical foundation of cloud computing
- Explain the deployment models of cloud computing
- Describe the essential characteristics of cloud computing
- Describe the fundamental service characteristics of a VMware vCloud® solution
- Explain IT service concepts
- Describe a structured service development process
- List the potential components of a service-level agreement
- Describe a service catalog offered within a vCloud Director platform
4.vCloud Director Architecture and Components
- Describe the vCloud Director architecture
- Define sites and availability zones
- Review the vCloud Director components and explain their functions
5.vCloud Director Virtual Data Center Design
- Describe the design of a provider virtual data center and its relationship to the underlying vSphere infrastructure
- Define organizations, organization virtual data centers, networks, storage, catalogs, and vApps
6.Cloud Management and Resource Components
- Identify the management components in a vCloud Director environment
- Describe the use of management cluster concepts
- Design the vSphere, NSX, and necessary storage infrastructure
- Define the resource cluster design and use cases
- Link definitions to requirements
7.vCloud Director Integrations
- Describe the integration with VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™, vRealize Business for Cloud, and VMware vRealize® Operations™
- Design integrations with third-party products
8.vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
- Describe the vCloud Availability for vCloud Director architecture
- List the prerequisites of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
- Implement vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
9.Customer Onboarding
- Describe tenant layer 2 VPN access
- Describe tenant SSL VPN access
- Import existing VMware vCenter Server® managed infrastructure into vCloud Director
Who Can Benefit
Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in a service provider or managed services environment