VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.1]

In this five-day course, you will focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director® 10.x for service providers. You will learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), and catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks, as well as the integrated use of VMware vSAN™. This course also covers interfacing vCloud Director with other systems through the use of various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director® and VMware vCloud® Director Extender™.

Obsah školení

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Deploy vCloud Director
• Manage vCloud Director to satisfy service provider needs
• Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
• Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
• Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere&reg into and out of vCloud Director
• Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
• Use NSX to create hybrid cloud connectivity between public clouds and private clouds
• Discuss various customer onboarding scenarios involving vCloud Director
• Configure the integration with vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Use vCloud Director Extender for hybrid cloud setup and onboarding

 

Outline:

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Software-Defined Data Center

• Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
• Cloud computing overview
• Characteristics of cloud services
• Categories of cloud computing
• Describe the VMware product stack for the software-defined data center

3 vCloud Director Concepts

• Explain vCloud Director concepts
• Configure and manage provider VDCs
• Identify storage, compute, and network resources for vCloud Director
• Create and manage organizations
• vCloud Director organization VDCs

4 Organization VDCs

• Organization VDC allocation models
• Recognize resource allocations for an organization
• Describe the network types available in vCloud Director (external, organization, and vApp)
• Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
• Examine the function of network pools

5 Virtual Machines and vApps

• Discuss the use of virtual machines
• Design and manage vApps 

6 Catalogs

• Create and manage catalogs
• Manage vApp templates

7 Users and Role-Based Access

• 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

8 Advanced Networking

• Describe the use and placement of NSX edge services gateways in relation to vCloud Director
• Review routing with the distributed logical router and edge services gateways in combination with vCloud Director
• Firewall management in vCloud Director with edge services gateways and the distributed firewall

9 Resource Management and Monitoring

• Manage provider and organization VDCs
• Manage VMware vCenter Server&reg instances and VMware ESXi&trade hosts
• Manage vSphere datastores
• Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
• Monitor usage information at provider and organization VDCs
• Analyze vCloud Director logs
• Monitor vCloud Director environments with VMware vRealize&reg Operations Manager&trade and VMware vRealize&reg Log Insight&trade
• Use VMware vRealize&reg Business&trade for cost management

10 Customer Onboarding and Hybrid Cloud

• Tenant layer 2 VPN access
• Tenant SSL VPN access
• Review options for external connectivity with VPN
• Import existing infrastructure managed by vCenter Server into vCloud Director
• Use vCloud Director Extender for hybrid cloud setup and onboarding

11 vCloud Availability for vCloud Director

• Architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Prerequisites of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Implementation of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director

12 vCloud Director Installation

• vCloud Director network, hardware, and software requirements
• vCloud Director setup overview
• vCloud Director cell design
• Install and configure the vCloud Director database (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle database, or PostgreSQL)
• Create SSL certificates
• Configure VMware NSX&reg Manager&trade for a new vCloud Director installation
• Install and configure an AMQP broker
• Download and install the VMware public key
• Use and set up vCloud Director federation

13 vCloud Director API and Metadata

• Describe tools to access the API of vCloud Director API
• Use of REST API in VMware vRealize&reg Orchestrator&trade
• Describe access to vCloud Director using VMware PowerCLI&trade
• Create and update metadata on objects