VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.4]

Duration

5 Days

30 CPD hours

Overview

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
Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX-T Data Center
Manage resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console
Enable VM and Named Disk
Create VM sizing and placement policies
Create vApps and perform VM operations and actions
Manage vGPU resources with VMware Cloud Director
Discuss how VMware Cloud Director can be integrated with other solutions

Description

In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director 10.4. You will learn about workload provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX-T Data Center networks. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines (VMs).This course also covers the UI enhancements of VMware Cloud Director, the new licensing model and UI enhancements with NSX Advanced Load Balancer , and the L2 and L3 VPN enhancements in VMware Cloud Director. You will learn about defining segment profile templates to organization VDC networks and vApp networks and configuring DHCP, static routes, and no distributed routing in VMware Cloud Director. This course explains how to integrate and implement vGPU in VMware Cloud Director as well as how to use API access tokens and service accounts for programmatic access to VMware Cloud Director.

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Solution

Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
Discuss VMware offerings for cloud-based services
Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
Discuss VMware Validated Solution
Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC using VMware Cloud Foundation

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 the switchover, promote, and fencing options of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
Understand the VMware Cloud Director appliance enhancements

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 Data Centers (VDCs)
Discuss network pools, external networks, and Tier-0 gateways
Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware 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 Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning
Understand the use cases of Allocation Models

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
Discuss API Access Token and Service Accounts
Explain Quota Management and its use cases

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

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 media 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
Discuss Fast Cross vCenter Server vApp Instantiation Utilizing Shared Storage

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
Discuss the 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
Explain routing and distributed firewall services
Discuss vApp networks
List the various types of vApp networks

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
Discuss vGPU in VMware Cloud Director

Additional UI Features and Integrated Solutions

Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, keyboard shortcuts, and quick search
Demonstrate the new branding and theming experience
Briefly discuss how VMware Cloud Director can be integrated with other solutions

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Notes

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