VCDICM101: VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.1]

Overview

Duration: 5.0 days

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® Operations™ and discusses administering tenant facing applications using vRealize® Operations Tenant App™.

Product Alignment

• VMware vSphere 6.7 U3
• VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.6
• VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.6
• VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.5.1
• VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ 8.1
• VMware vRealize Operations Manager Tenant App 2.4
• VMware vCloud® Availability 4.0

Objectives

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 vSphere™ 
• 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

Content

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 
• Discuss VMware Validated Design™ 
• Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC

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

Audience

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

Prerequisites

Completion of the following course is required:

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

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

Certification

This course is not associated with any Certification.