In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director® 10.3. You learn about workload provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX-T™ Data Center networks.

This course also covers interfacing VMware Cloud Director with other systems and the integration and use of VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ for VMware Cloud Director. You learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines (VMs). This course also discusses how to monitor various VMware Cloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™.

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

• • Deploy VMware Cloud Director
• • Manage VMware Cloud Director to meet the service provider needs
• • Create and manage VMware Cloud Director organizations and vApps to fulfill business needs
• • Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
• • Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere® into and out of VMware Cloud Director
• • Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center
• • Managing resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console and using VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
• • Enabling VM and Named Disk Encryption
• • Creating VM sizing and placement policies
• • Understand vApps and VM operations and actions

Cloud architects, systems engineers, datacenter administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment

Completion of the following courses and equivalent knowledge is required:

• • VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent knowledge

The following experience is helpful:

• • Working at the Linux command line
• • Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts

Course Modules

1 Course Introduction

• • Introductions and course logistics
• • Course objectives

2 Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Design

• • Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
• • Discuss VMware offerings for cloud-based services
• • Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
• • Discuss VMware Validated Design

3 VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration

• • Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
• • Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
• • Discuss failover mechanisms (automatic and manual) with VMware Cloud Director cells
• • Define switchover, promote, and fencing options of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
• • Understand the VMware Cloud Director appliance enhancements

4 VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration

• • 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)
• • Briefly discuss network pools, external networks, and Tier-0 Gateways
• • Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with vCenter Server

5 VMware Cloud Director User, Roles and Quota Management

• • Discuss user-bundle
• • Describe role-based access
• • Explain custom roles and rights
• • Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
• • Discuss OIDC authentication methods
• • Describe SAML identity provider

6 VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps

• • Understand standalone VMs
• • Discuss the VM managing operations
• • Explain VM properties
• • Discuss deployment methods of vApps
• • Discuss the vApp managing operations
• • Discuss the vApp lease policies
• • Understand the vApps and VM actions
• • Explain vApp and VM badges

7 VMware Cloud Director Content Libraries

• • Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization
• • Define catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations
• • Explain medias in VMware Cloud Director and its usage
• • Discuss vApp templates
• • Understand vApp template operations
• • Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
• • Discuss organization VDC templates

8 VMware Cloud Director Networking

• • Discuss organization VDC networks
• • List the types of organization VDC networks
• • Describe the edge gateway services
• • Explore the services offered by the edge gateway

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Discuss sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases
• • Discuss DHCP, NAT, load balancer, and firewall services on the edge gateway
• • Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT use cases
• • Discuss vApp networks
• • List the various types of vApp networks
• • Discuss routed, isolated, and direct 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 methods of sharing the named disk
• • Discuss the implications of deleting VMs that have an attached named disk
• • Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted
• • Explain the storage policy capabilities
• • Demonstrate how VM sizing and placement policies are published
• • Discuss vCenter server and VMware Cloud Director IOPS storage policies usage
• • Discuss how to enable and use the storage IOPS limitation in VMware Cloud Director
• • Describe the storage policy supported entities

10 Extensibility and UI Additional Features

• • Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts, and quick search
• • Understand vcd-cli supported commands
• • Discuss 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 monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director portals
• • Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager
• • Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager
• • Configure VMware Cloud Director Management Pack
• • Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports