In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director 10.6. You will learn how to set up and manage VMware Cloud Director, including the provisioning of workloads, creating organizations and Virtual Data Centers (VDCs), and use catalog services that include predefined virtual machines. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines and vApps

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Describe the architecture and main components of VMware Cloud Director
• Explain the features and benefits of VMware Cloud Director
• Deploy high availability VMware Cloud Director cluster
• Create VMware Cloud Director provider virtual data centers and organizations
• Configure and create vApps and VMs
• Create users and role-based access control
• Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
• Create and manage VMware Cloud Director networks
• Create VM sizing and placement policies
• Discuss additional features of VMware Cloud Director

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

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

This course requires completion of the following course and equivalent knowledge:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8]
• VMware NSX: Install, Configure, Manage [V4.0]

Module 1: Course Introduction