In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 9.x. You learn about self-service 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 vCloud Director® with other systems using various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director®. You will also understand how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director and configuring Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a Software-defined Datacenter (SDDC) for tenant and provider users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™, Tenant vApp, and VMware vRealize® Log Insight™.

Product Alignment
•  vCloud Director 9.x
•  vCloud Availability for vCloud Director 3.0
•  vSphere 6.x and later
•  NSX 6.x and later

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
•  Deploy vCloud Director
•  Manage vCloud Director to satisfy service provider needs
•  Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
•  Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
•  Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere® into and out of vCloud Director
•  Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
•  Use NSX to create hybrid cloud connectivity between public clouds and private clouds
•  Discuss various customer onboarding scenarios involving vCloud Director
•  Configure the integration with VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director®
•  Use VMware vCloud® Availability for hybrid cloud setup and onboarding

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 [V6.x] or equivalent knowledge

Completion of the following eLearning courses is recommended:
•  VMware vCloud Director: Fundamentals [V8.x]
•  VMware vSAN and HCI Fundamentals
•  VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

1  Course Introduction
•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Course objectives

2  vCloud Director Deployment and Configuration
•  Define Software Defined Datacenter
•  Discuss VMware offerings for Cloud-Based Services
•  Understand the prerequisite to install vCloud Director
•  Discuss the deployment options for vCloud Director
•  Differentiate different deployment options, benefits, and disadvantages
•  Discuss VMware Validated Design

3  vCloud Director Provider and Organization
•  Configure and manage provider VDCs
•  Identify storage, compute, and network resources for vCloud Director
•  Create and manage organizations, including vCloud Director organization VDCs
•  Discuss vCloud Director HTML5 UI
•  Discuss HTML5-based Provider Portal and Tenant Portal

4  vCloud Director Organization VDC
•  Organization VDC allocation models
•  Recognize resource allocations for an organization
•  Describe the network types available in vCloud Director (external, organization, and vApp)
•  Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
•  Examine the function of network pools
•  Discuss Compute Profiles

5  vApps and Catalogs
•  Discuss the use of virtual machines
•  Design and manage vApps
•  Create and manage catalogs
•  Manage vApp templates
•  Create and Manage vApp Networks
•  Discuss vApp Network Traffic Choices

6  Users and Role-based Access
•  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

7  vCloud Director Networking
•  Describe the use and placement of NSX edge services gateways in relation to vCloud Director
•  Review routing with the distributed logical router and edge services gateway in combination with vCloud Director
•  Discuss edge services like NAT, DHCP, load balancer, and firewall
•  Discuss the architecture of VMware NSX-T™
•  Discuss vCloud Director supported features of NSX-T
•  Discuss Multisite
•  Configure Cross VDC Networking.

8  Resource Management and Monitoring
•  Manage provider and organization VDCs
•  Manage VMware vCenter Server® instances and VMware ESXi™ hosts
•  Manage vSphere datastores
•  Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
•  Monitor usage information at provider and organization VDCs
•  Analyze vCloud Director logs
•  Monitor vCloud Director environments with vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Log Insight
•  Managing billing and reports of vCloud Director objects using Tenant vApp

9  vCloud Extensibility
•  Discuss Container Service Extension
•  Explore vCD CLI
•  Discuss Python SDK for vApp Deployment
•  Discuss Terraform vCloud Director capabilities
•  Discuss VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ Plug-in for vCloud Director

10  vCloud Director APIs
•  Describe access to vCD objects using REST API calls
•  Describe tools to access the API of vCloud Director objects
•  Discuss different third-party API client tools
•  Describe access to vCloud Director using Postman, Curl
•  Describe access to vCloud Director using OpenAPI
•  Create and update metadata on objects
•  Access different vCloud Objects using vCloud API

11  Customer Onboarding and Hybrid Cloud
•  Discuss architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
•  Review prerequisites of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
•  Discuss implementation of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
•  Discuss vCloud Availability for vCloud Director portal
•  Review fail-over Virtual Machine options
•  Discuss Virtual Machine replication to the Cloud
•  Discuss On-prem to Cloud migration

12  vCloud Director Troubleshooting
•  Identify log locations for vCloud Director
•  Navigate through vCloud Director logs
•  Capture vCloud Director log bundles