1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
2 Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Design
- Define Software-Defined Data Center
- Discuss VMware offerings for Cloud-Based Services
- Understand the main components of the SoftwareDefined Data Center
- Discuss the deployment options for vCloud Director
- Discuss VMware Validated Design™
- Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC
3 Deploying and Configuring VMware Cloud Director
- Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
- Explain different deployment options of VMware Cloud Director.
- Define automatic failover, switchover, and fencing in the VMware Cloud Director appliance
- Describe the API-only supported features of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
- Familiarize with the multiple API endpoints of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
4 VMware Cloud Director Provider and Tenant
- 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 Datacenters (VDCs)
- Discuss the use of External Networks
- Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
- Describe the purpose of VMware Cloud Director organizations
- Configure organizations
- Enumerate organization policies
- Allocate resources to an organization
- Discuss Cloud Director organizations
- Create Cloud Director organizations
- Understand organization policies
- How to access an organization using various portals
- Understand organization VDC
- Discuss what is linked clone and fast provisioning
- Explore cross datastore provisioning
5 User Access Control
- User bundle and role-based access control
- 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
- Discuss user-bundle and role-based access control
6 Working with Virtual Machines
- Discuss the use of virtual machines
- Create a standalone VM
- Perform VM operations
- Manage VM properties
- Discuss the use of App Launchpad
- Onboard applications using App Launchpad
7 Working with vApps
- Create and manage vApps
- Deploy a vApp using various methods
- Build a vApp using best practices
- Discuss the vApp lease policies
- Discuss the implications of deleting a VM that has a named disk attached to it
- Describe VM encryption
- Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted
- Demonstrate how to use VM sizing and placement Policies
8 Managing Catalogs and Templates
- Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization.
- Manage catalogs
- Share catalogs
- Discuss vApp templates
- Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and Custom vApp or VM Properties
- Define Catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations
9 VMware Cloud Director Networking
- Discuss Container Service Extension
- Discuss organization VDC networks
- List the types of organization VDC networks
- Describe the edge gateway services
- Explain NSX Datacenter for vSphere architecture
- Discuss NSX-T Datacenter architecture
- List the enhanced VMware NSX-T Data Center supported features of VMware Cloud Director
- Explore the services offered by the edge services gateway
- Recognize the sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases
- Discuss DHCP, NAT, and high availability services on the edge services gateway
- Recognize SNAT and DNAT use cases
- Explain load balancing, routing, and distributed firewall services
- Create and manage vApp networks
- List the various types of vApp networks
- Discuss vApp fencing
- Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks
10 Advanced Networking
- Describe the multisite feature in Cloud Director
- Associate Cloud Director sites
- Associate organizations
- Access multiple sites from a single user interface
- Configure cross-VDC networking and L2 stretched networks
- Configure data center groups
- Explain the main usage and purpose of the NSX Migration of Cloud Director tool
- Explain the environmental prerequisites and how to prepare the edge cluster for bridging
11 Additional Features
- Discuss multisite deployments
- Configure cross VDC networking
- Define SDDC
- Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy
- Discuss enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal
- Discuss architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
- Discuss vCloud Availability for vCloud Director portal
- Review fail-over Virtual Machine options
- Discuss on premises-to-cloud migration
- Discuss enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal
- Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with Cloud Director.
- Execute Cloud Director workflows using vRealize Orchestrator.
- Integrate vCloud Availability with Cloud Director
- Understand Container Service Extension
12 Resource Monitoring and Feature Preview
- Identify log locations for vCloud Director
- Manage vSphere resources from vCloud Director
- Manage cloud resources from vCloud Director
- Understand monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director HTML5 Portal
- Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager
- Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager
- Configure Cloud Director Management Pack
- Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports
- Introduce VMware vRealize Operations Tenant App
- Integrate VMware Cloud Director with Tenant App
- Configure Tenant App with VMware Cloud Director
- Monitoring and billing objects with Tenant App
- List the upcoming features
