In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director™ 10.x. 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® networks.

This course also covers interfacing VMware Cloud Director with other systems and the integration and use of VMware Cloud Director Availability™. You also learn how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking, and configuring Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a Software-defined Data Center (SDDC) for a tenant and provider users of VMware Cloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various VMware Cloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® OperationsTM and discusses administering tenant facing applications using vRealize® Operations Tenant AppTM.

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 and VMware NSX® Data Center for vSphereTM
• • Discuss customer onboarding scenario using VMware Cloud Availability for on premises-to-cloud workload migration
• • Enable a layer 2 stretched network that spans across multiple VMware Cloud Director sites and organization VDCs within the same site
• • Manage resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console and use VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
• • Manage a dedicated VMware vCenter Server® and publish proxies to the tenant
• • Onboard developer applications to the tenant using VMware Cloud Director® App Launchpad™
• • Enable VM and Named Disk Encryption
• • Create VM sizing and placement policies

Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment

Completion of the following course is required:

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

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

1 Course Introduction

• • Introductions and course logistics
• • Course objectives

2 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

3 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

4 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

5 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

6 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

7 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

8 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

9 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

10 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

11 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

12 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