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

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Software-Defined Data Center

• Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
• Cloud computing overview
• Characteristics of cloud services
• Categories of cloud computing
• Describe the VMware product stack for the software-defined data center

vCloud Director Concepts

• Explain vCloud Director concepts
• Configure and manage provider VDCs
• Identify storage, compute, and network resources for vCloud Director
• Create and manage organizations
• vCloud Director organization VDCs

Organization VDCs

• 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

Virtual Machines and vApps

• Discuss the use of virtual machines
• Design and manage vApps

Catalogs

• Create and manage catalogs
• Manage vApp templates

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

Advanced Networking

• Describe the use and placement of NSX edge services gateways in relation to vCloud Director
• Review routing with the distributed logical router and edge services gateways in combination with vCloud Director
• Firewall management in vCloud Director with edge services gateways and the distributed firewall

Resource Management and Monitoring

• Manage provider and organization VDCs
• Manage VMware vCenter Server® instances and VMware ESXi&trade hosts
• Manage vSphere datastores
• Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
• Monitor usage information at provider and organization VDCs
• Analyze vCloud Director logs
• Monitor vCloud Director environments with VMware vRealize® Operations Manager&trade and VMware vRealize® Log Insight&trade
• Use VMware vRealize® Business&trade for cost management

Customer Onboarding and Hybrid Cloud

• Tenant layer 2 VPN access
• Tenant SSL VPN access
• Review options for external connectivity with VPN
• Import existing infrastructure managed by vCenter Server into vCloud Director
• Use vCloud Director Extender for hybrid cloud setup and onboarding

vCloud Availability for vCloud Director

• Architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Prerequisites of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Implementation of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director

vCloud Director Installation

• vCloud Director network, hardware, and software requirements
• vCloud Director setup overview
• vCloud Director cell design
• Install and configure the vCloud Director database (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle database, or PostgreSQL)
• Create SSL certificates
• Configure VMware NSX® Manager&trade for a new vCloud Director installation
• Install and configure an AMQP broker
• Download and install the VMware public key
• Use and set up vCloud Director federation

vCloud Director API and Metadata

• Describe tools to access the API of vCloud Director API
• Use of REST API in VMware vRealize® Orchestrator&trade
• Describe access to vCloud Director using VMware PowerCLI&trade
• Create and update metadata on objects