Duration 5 Days
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this five-day course, you will focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director® 9.x for service providers. You will learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), and catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX® networks, as well as the integrated use of VMware vSAN™. This course also covers interfacing vCloud Director with other systems through the use of various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud® Availability for vCloud Director® and VMware vCloud® Director Extender™.
Product Alignment
- vCloud Director 9.x
- vCloud Availability for vCloud Director 2.0
- vCloud Director Extender 1.0
- vSphere 6.x and later
- NSX 6.x and later
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Deploy vCloud Director
- Manage vCloud Director to satisfy service provider needs
- Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and vApps to satisfy business needs
- Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs
- Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere® into and out of vCloud Director
- Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
- Use NSX to create hybrid cloud connectivity between public clouds and private clouds
- Discuss various customer onboarding scenarios involving vCloud Director
- Configure the integration with vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
- Use vCloud Director Extender for hybrid cloud setup and onboarding
COURSE OUTLINE
- Course Introduction
- Software-Defined Data Center
- vCloud Director Concepts
- Organization VDCs
- Virtual Machines and vApps
- Catalogs
- Users and Role-Based Access
- Advanced Networking
- Resource Management and Monitoring
- Customer Onboarding and Hybrid Cloud
- vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
- vCloud Director Installation
- Cloud Director API and Metadata
PREREQUISITES
This course requires completion of the following course:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] or equivalent knowledge
This course recommends completion of the following e-learning courses:
- VMware vCloud Director: Fundamentals [V8.x]
- VMware Virtual SAN: Fundamentals [V6.x]
- VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals
Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in a service provider or managed services environment
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