VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure: Install, Configure, Manage [V2.0]

Introductions and course logistics

Course objectives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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