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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

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 ServerÂ© 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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