Formation VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage

VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage (05 jours)

Summary

In this course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.x. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX networks. This course covers interfacing VMware vCloud Director with other systems using various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director. You will understand how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director. You will also understand how to configure Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a Software-defined Datacenter (SDDC) for tenant and provider users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize Operations, Tenant vApp, and VMware vRealize Log Insight.

Prerequisites

Completion of the following course is required:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] or equivalent knowledge

Completion of the following eLearning courses is recommended:

• VMware vCloud Director: Fundamentals [V8.x]

• VMware vSAN and HCI Fundamentals

• VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

Duration

5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience

This course is designed for Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.

Topics

VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V9.7]

In this course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware vCloud Director for Service Providers 9.x. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX networks. This course covers interfacing VMware vCloud Director with other systems using various APIs and the integration and use of VMware vCloud Availability for vCloud Director. You will understand how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director. You will also understand how to configure Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a Software-defined Datacenter (SDDC) for tenant and provider users of vCloud Director. This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize Operations, Tenant vApp, and VMware vRealize Log Insight.

Prerequisites

Completion of the following course is required:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.x] or equivalent knowledge

Completion of the following eLearning courses is recommended:

• VMware vCloud Director: Fundamentals [V8.x]

• VMware vSAN and HCI Fundamentals

• VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

Duration

5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience

This course is designed for Customers, cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.

Topics

• Course Introduction

• vCloud Director Deployment and Configuration

• vCloud Director Provider and Organization

• vCloud Director Organization VDC

• vApps and Catalogs

• Users and Role-based Access

• vCloud Director Networking

• Resource Management and Monitoring

• vCloud Extensibility

• vCloud Director APIs

• Customer Onboarding and Hybrid Cloud

• vCloud Director Troubleshooting

Chapter 1, Setting Up Networks, walks you through the creation of the different networks that exist in vCloud. We will go from External Networks, through VXLANs, and the Cisco 1000v to Edge networks.

Chapter 2, vCloud Networks, plays with all the vCloud networking, routing, and isolation possibilities. Accessing isolated network, working with vCloud routers, as well as Edge and fencing will be investigated.

 Chapter 3, Better vApps, delves into all that you can do with vApps. We will discuss the import and export of vApps as well as Guest Customization.

Chapter 4, Datastores and Storage Profiles, focuses on Datastores, storage profiles, and linked clones

Chapter 5, Working with the vCloud API, introduces you to working with the vCloud API. We will be using PowerShell, PHP, vCenter Orchestrator as well as the REST API to build VMs. Chapter 6, Improving the vCloud Design, will give you a new understanding of how to design a productive and effective vCloud environment.

 Chapter 7, Operational Challenges, introduces you to solutions to combat common and uncommon operational problems. This chapter is a collection of all kinds of useful recipes that will provide you with tips and tricks on how to be more efficient with vCloud Director. Chapter

 Chapter 8, Troubleshooting vCloud, focuses on logfiles, error finding, and recovery