VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V9.7]

Intended 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 [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.

Outline

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
• Create 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

• Identify key components in the architecture of VMware NSX® Data Center for vSphere®
• Describe how logical switches and distributed logical routers work
• Discuss edge services like NAT, DHCP, load balancer, and firewall
• Discuss the architecture of NSX- TTM Data Center
• Discuss vCloud Director supported features of NSX-T Data Center
• Discuss Multisite
• Configure Cross VDC Networking.

8. Resource Management and Monitoring

• Manage and monitor vSphere resources
• Manage and monitor Cloud resources
• Monitor vCloud Director environment using VMware vRealize® Operations ManagerTM
• Monitor vCloud Director environments with vRealize Operations Manager and vRealize Log Insight
• Manage billing and reports of vCloud Director objects using Tenant vApp

9. vCloud Extensibility

• Discuss Container Service Extension
• Explore vCD, CLI, and Container Service Extension
• Discuss Python SDK for vApp Deployment
• Discuss Terraform and vCloud Director
• Discuss VMware vRealize® OrchestratorTM 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 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
• List the key services in vCloud Director
• Navigate through vCloud Director logs
• Capture vCloud Director log bundles
• Describe the troubleshooting approach for common vCloud Director issues