VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage (v10.4)

Outline

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Design

• Define Software-Defined Data Center
• Discuss VMware offerings for Cloud-Based Services
• Understand the main components of the Software-Defined Data Center
• Discuss the deployment options for vCloud Director
• Discuss VMware Validated Design™
• Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC

Deploying and Configuring VMware Cloud Director

• Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
• Explain different deployment options of VMware Cloud Director.
• Define automatic failover, switchover, and fencing in the VMware Cloud Director appliance
• Describe the API-only supported features of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
• Familiarize with the multiple API endpoints of the VMware Cloud Director appliance

VMware Cloud Director Provider and Tenant

• 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)
• Discuss the use of External Networks
• Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
• Describe the purpose of VMware Cloud Director organizations
• Configure organizations
• Enumerate organization policies
• Allocate resources to an organization
• Discuss Cloud Director organizations
• Create Cloud Director organizations
• Understand organization policies
• How to access an organization using various portals
• Understand organization VDC
• Discuss what is linked clone and fast provisioning
• Explore cross datastore provisioning

User Access Control

• User bundle and role-based access control
• 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
• Discuss user-bundle and role-based access control

Working with Virtual Machines

• Discuss the use of virtual machines
• Create a standalone VM
• Perform VM operations
• Manage VM properties
• Discuss the use of App Launchpad
• Onboard applications using App Launchpad

Working with vApps

• Create and manage vApps
• Deploy a vApp using various methods
• Build a vApp using best practices
• Discuss the vApp lease policies
• Discuss the implications of deleting a VM that has a named disk attached to it
• Describe VM encryption
• Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted
• Demonstrate how to use VM sizing and placement policies

Managing Catalogs and Templates

• Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization.
• Manage catalogs
• Share catalogs
• Discuss vApp templates
• Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and Custom vApp or VM Properties
• Define Catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations

VMware Cloud Director Networking

• Discuss Container Service Extension
• Discuss organization VDC networks
• List the types of organization VDC networks
• Describe the edge gateway services
• Explain NSX Datacenter for vSphere architecture
• Discuss NSX-T Datacenter architecture
• List the enhanced VMware NSX-T Data Center supported features of VMware Cloud Director
• Explore the services offered by the edge services gateway
• Recognize the sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases
• Discuss DHCP, NAT, and high availability services on the edge services gateway
• Recognize SNAT and DNAT use cases
• Explain load balancing, routing, and distributed firewall services
• Create and manage vApp networks
• List the various types of vApp networks
• Discuss vApp fencing
• Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks

Advanced Networking

• Describe the multisite feature in Cloud Director
• Associate Cloud Director sites
• Associate organizations
• Access multiple sites from a single user interface
• Configure cross-VDC networking and L2 stretched networks
• Configure data center groups
• Explain the main usage and purpose of the NSX Migration of Cloud Director tool
• Explain the environmental prerequisites and how to prepare the edge cluster for bridging

Additional Features

• Discuss multisite deployments
• Configure cross VDC networking
• Define SDDC
• Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy
• Discuss enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal
• Discuss architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Discuss vCloud Availability for vCloud Director portal
• Review fail-over Virtual Machine options
• Discuss on premises-to-cloud migration
• Discuss enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal
• Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with Cloud Director.
• Execute Cloud Director workflows using vRealize Orchestrator.
• Integrate vCloud Availability with Cloud Director
• Understand Container Service Extension

Resource Monitoring and Feature Preview

• Identify log locations for vCloud Director
• Manage vSphere resources from vCloud Director
• Manage cloud resources from vCloud Director
• Understand monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director HTML5 Portal
• Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager
• Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager
• Configure Cloud Director Management Pack
• Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports
• Introduce VMware vRealize Operations Tenant App
• Integrate VMware Cloud Director with Tenant App
• Configure Tenant App with VMware Cloud Director
• Monitoring and billing objects with Tenant App
• List the upcoming features