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
™
• Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC using VMWare Cloud Foundation™
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
® and NSX-T Data Center
• Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
• Understand organization policies
• Explain how to access an organization using various portals
• Understand organization VDC
• Discuss what is Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning
• Understand the use cases of Allocation Models
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