In this course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director 10.4. You will learn workload provisioning, creation of organizations,,VDCs, and catalog services. You will learn about different networks that you can configure and use with 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.

starstarstarstarstar_half

* Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.

Learning 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
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

1

  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Introductions and course logistics

    Course objectives

2

  • 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™

3

  • 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

4

  • 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

5

  • 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

6

  • 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

7

  • 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

8

  • 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

9

  • 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

10

  • 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

Audience

Language

English

Prerequisites

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

Level:

Not Your Location? Change

For scheduling options, please chat with an expert below.

Course Schedule:

To request a custom delivery, please chat with an expert.

Loading...