This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in operating and troubleshooting the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure environment. In this course, you are introduced to VMware Cloud Director as a virtualized infrastructure manager. You will examine ETSI NFV requirements, deployment options, and procedures. You will also deploy virtualized network functions and understand their detailed configuration settings. You will learn how to support organizations as well as set up networking and security using hands-on lab exercises. In addition, you are presented with various types of technical problems in VMware Cloud Director, which you will identify, analyze, and solve through a systematic troubleshooting process.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure™ architecture
Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture
List the infrastructure requirements of ETSI NFV
Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture as Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)
Describe the options associated with VMware cloud providers
Explain how organizations are supported in VMware Cloud Director
Describe the security model in VMware Cloud Director
Configure key networking elements of VMware Cloud Director
Manage and monitor resources in VMware Cloud Director
Enumerate troubleshooting concepts and Day 2 operations using VMware Cloud Director

1

  • Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
    Course objectives
2

  • Day 0 Operations: VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure Installation

  • Describe the challenges of the telco cloud
    Describe the key functions of the telco cloud
    List the benefits of the VMware Cloud Director based VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
    Describe the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure architecture
    Describe the role of VMware Cloud Director in the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure architecture
    List the VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure deployment options
    Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture
    List the key VMware components that are part of VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the key use cases for the VMware Cloud Director based VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure
3

  • Day 0 Operations: ETSI NFV Requirements for Cloud Platforms

  • Compare physical and virtual infrastructures
    List the benefits and challenges of physical infrastructure
    Describe the types of virtual infrastructure
    Describe the advantages and components of the NFV infrastructure (NFVI)
    Explain the role of network virtualization in the NFVI
    List the requirements of NFVI for VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the networking options of VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the key networking use cases
    Describe requirements of VMware Telco Cloud Automation™ for networking
    Describe the storage options of VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the key storage use cases
4

  • Day 1 Operations: Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) Configuration

  • Explain basic concepts related to VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the components of the VMware Cloud Director architecture
    Describe the basic configuration of the VMware Cloud Director architecture
    Describe virtual data centers or VDCs
    Explain the role of organization VDCs
    Describe the relationship between provider VDCs and organization VDCs
    Describe resources in VMware Cloud Director
    List the key resource organization
    Create resource pools
    Describe how vSAN integrates with VMware Cloud Director
5

  • Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Providers

  • Describe how compute resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director
    Describe how storage resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director
    Describe provider VDC requirements and best practices
    List the requirements of creating VDCs
    Describe the VNF on-boarding process
    Create provider VDCs
6

  • Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Organizations

  • Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
    Create VMware Cloud Director organizations
    Navigate through the VMware Cloud Director HTML5 provider portal
    Describe the VMware Cloud Director organization VDC
    Navigate through the tenant portal
    List use cases for a VMware Cloud Director organization VDC
    List the organization VDC allocation models
    Describe the types of resources that can be allocated
    Describe how resources are allocated for an organization
    Examine the function and requirements of network pools
    Describe the network types available in VMware Cloud Director (external, organization, and vApp)
    Create and manage organization VDC networks
    Describe catalogs
    Manage an organization’s catalog
    Populate, share, and publish catalogs
    Describe vApps
    Manage access to vApps and catalogs
    Modify the configuration of vApps and their virtual machines (VMs)
    Manage organization VDC networking
    Create affinity and anti-affinity rules
7

  • Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Security

  • Describe role-based access
    Create custom security roles
    Describe the directory services in VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the role of LDAP, SAML, SSL, Kerberos, and OAuth2 with VMware Cloud Director
    Explain the use of VMware Cloud Director with SSO
8

  • Day 1 Operations: Configuring VMware Cloud Director Networking

  • List networking options in VMware Cloud Director
    Describe key networking use cases in VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the use and placement of VMware NSX® Edge™ services gateways in relation to VMware Cloud Director
    Review routing with the distributed logical router and edge services gateways in combination with VMware Cloud Director
    Describe firewall management in VMware Cloud Director with edge services gateways and the distributed firewall
    Describe an overview of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center
    Explain the architecture of NSX-T Data Center
    Describe VMware Cloud Director supported features of NSX-T Data Center
    Describe the benefits and challenges of multisite networking
    List the requirements for multisite networking
    Describe the benefits and challenges of networking between VDCs
    List the requirements for networking between VDCs
    Configure cross-VDC networking
9

  • Day 2 Operations: VMware Cloud Director Resource Management and Monitoring

  • Identify the key resources that need to be managed with VMware Cloud Director
    List monitoring options with VMware Cloud Director
    Explain the resource management and monitoring architecture in VMware Cloud Director
    Monitor objects from the VMware Cloud Director portal
    Identify features of VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™
    Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager
    Configure VMware vRealize® Operations Management Pack for VMware Cloud Director™
    Outline the monitoring features of vRealize Operations Manager in VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the purpose of the vRealize Operations Tenant App for VMware Cloud Director
    Integrate VMware Cloud Director with the Tenant App
    Configure the Tenant App for VMware Cloud Director
    Monitor objects with the Tenant App
    List the steps to monitor VMware Cloud Director environments with vRealize Operations Manager
    List the steps to monitor VMware Cloud Director environments with VMware vRealize® Log Insight™
    List the steps to review historical virtual machine metrics in VMware Cloud Director
    Examine VMware Cloud Director logs
10

  • Day 2 Operations: VMware Cloud Director Troubleshooting

  • Identify the features of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation dashboards
    List the components of the VMware Telco Cloud Automation dashboards
    Explain the features of fault management in VMware Telco Cloud Director
    Describe the use of fault management in VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the use of performance management in VMware Cloud Director
    Describe the use of logs in VMware Cloud Director
    Troubleshoot using VMware Cloud Director

Audience

This course is for Telco cloud system administrators and telco network operations engineers, professionals who work with telco or enterprise and data center networks, and designers and operations engineers who manage telco workloads.

Language

English

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have completed the Telco Cloud Automation Fundamentals and Telco Cloud Platform Fundamentals courses. You should also have the following understanding or knowledge: Good understanding of VMware products like VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, VMware vSAN, and VMware Cloud Director Knowledge and working experience of network functions virtualization, including: ETSI NFV framework, virtualized network functions, and related Interfaces VMs and virtual data centers

$4,250

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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