VMware vCloud Director: Tenant Operations [V10.x]

In this five-day course, you focus on configuring and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 10.x Tenant Operations. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of certain organization virtual data center networks, vApp and its networks, catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks.

This course covers integrating vCloud Director with VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ and the use of VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director®. You will understand how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director. You will also understand how to use Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) for tenant users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™.

 

Objectives

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

• Understand role-based access control and custom roles
• Manage a vCloud Director organization’s VDC and vApps
• Manage virtual machines using sizing and placement policies
• Create and share vCloud Director catalogs and vApp templates
• Describe and use CPOM to view dedicated VMware vSphere® datacenters in the tenant portal
• Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of VMware NSX®
• Configure the integration with vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Transfer virtual machine workloads from vSphere into and out of vCloud Director sites and between vCloud Director sites for customer onboarding
• Manage multisite deployment as a tenant administrator
• Know how to integrate vRealize Orchestrator and use the existing workflows
• Monitor vCloud Director using vRealize Operations Manager
• Know the new features of vCloud Director 10.x tenant operations

Obsah školení

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

 

2 Introduction to vCloud Director, Service Provider, and Tenant Portal

• Explain vCloud Director concepts
• Outline the preconfigured tasks by the service provider
• Describe and understand the tenant portal use cases

 

3 User Access Control

• Discuss users and groups
• Understand the custom roles
• List the user roles
• Discuss role-based access control (RBAC)

 

4 Administering Virtual Machines

• Create a standalone virtual machine
• Perform virtual machine operations
• Manage virtual machine properties

 

5 Working with vApps

• Create virtual machines in a vApp
• Manage catalogs
• Share catalogs
• Discuss vApp templates

 

6 Organization VDC Networking

• Understand organization VDC networks
• List the types of organization VDC networks
• Describe the edge gateway services
• List the enhanced NSX-T supported features from the tenant portal

 

7 vApp Networking

• Create and manage vApp networks
• List the various types of vApp networks
• Discuss vApp fencing
• Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks

 

8 vCloud Extensibility

• Discuss vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Migrate virtual machines from cloud to cloud
• Migrate virtual machines from on-premises to cloud
• Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with vCloud Director
• Work with swagger, vCloud API, vCD CLI, and VMware PowerCLI™

 

9 Multisite Deployment and CPOM

• Discuss multisite deployments
• Configure cross VDC networking
• Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
• Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy
• Use enhanced Central Point of Management (CPOM) through tenant portal

 

10 Monitoring vCloud Director Resources

• Monitor resources from the tenant portal
• Monitor vCloud Director objects with vRealize Operations Manager
• Understand dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reports

 

11 vCloud Director 10.x Tenant New Feature

• Describe name disk feature
• Describe VM sizing and VM placement policies
• Describe object storage extension