In this five-day course, you focus on configuring and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 10.x Tenant Operations. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of virtual datacenter networks, vApp and its networks, catalog services that include predefined virtual machines (VMs), and on-demand VMware NSX® networks.
This course covers integrating VMware vCloud Director® with VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ and the use of VMware vCloud® Availability. You learn how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director. You also learn how to use Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) for tenant users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations Manager
This course requires completion of one of the following courses:
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage
• Understand role-based access control and custom roles
• Manage vCloud Director organizations’ VDC and vApps
• Manage VMs using sizing and placement policies
• Create and share vCloud Director catalogs and vApp templates
• Describe and use CPOM to view dedicated VMware vSphere® datacenters in the tenant portal
• Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
• Configure the integration with vCloud Availability
• Transfer VM workloads from vSphere into and out of vCloud Director sites and between vCloud Director
sites for customer onboarding
• Manage multisite deployment as a tenant administrator
• Know how to integrate vRealize Orchestrator and use the existing workflows
• Monitor vCloud Director using VMware vRealize® Operations ManagerTM
• Know the new features of vCloud Director 10.x tenant operations
1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 Introduction to vCloud Director, Service Provider, and Tenant Portal
• Explain vCloud Director concepts
• Outline the preconfigured tasks by the service provider
• Describe and understand the tenant portal use cases
3 User Access Control
• Discuss users and groups
• Understand the custom roles
• List the user roles
• Discuss role-based access control (RBAC)
4 Working with Virtual Machines
• Create a standalone VM
• Perform VM operations
• Manage VM properties
5 Working with vApps
• Create VMs in a vApp
• Manage catalogs
• Share catalogs
• Discuss vApp templates
6 Organization VDC Networking
• Understand organization VDC networks
• List the types of organization VDC networks
• Describe the edge gateway services
• List the enhanced NSX-T supported features from the tenant portal
7 vApp Networking
• Create and manage vApp networks
• List the various types of vApp networks
• Discuss vApp fencing
• Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks
8 vCloud Availability
• Discuss vCloud Availability and its integration with vCloud Director
• Migrate VMs from cloud to cloud
• Migrate VMs from on-premises to cloud
9 vCloud Extensibility
• Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with vCloud Director
• Work with swagger, vCloud API, vCD CLI, and VMware PowerCLI™
10 Multisite Deployment and CPOM
• Discuss multisite deployments
• Configure cross VDC networking
• Define SDDC
• Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy
• Use enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal
11 Monitoring and Managing vCloud Director Resources
• Monitor resources from the tenant portal
• Monitor vCloud Director objects with vRealize Operations Manager
• Understand dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reports
12 vCloud Director 10.x Tenant New Feature
• Describe name disk feature
• Describe VM sizing and VM placement policies
• Describe object storage extension
Join our public courses in our Switzerland facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.