VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure Manage v9 – VMW_VCICM9

Czas trwania: 5 dni

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Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in a service provider or managed services environment

Krótki opis

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

Wymagania

This course requires completion of the following course:
•  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 Virtual SAN: Fundamentals [V6.x] •  VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals

Substantial knowledge of TCP/IP networking is helpful.

Program

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Software-Defined Data Center

• Describe the evolution of the software-defined data center
• Cloud computing overview
• Characteristics of cloud services
• Categories of cloud computing
• Describe the VMware product stack for the software-defined data center

Module 3: vCloud Director Concepts

• Explain vCloud Director concepts
• Configure and manage provider VDCs
• Identify storage, compute, and network resources for vCloud Director
• Create and manage organizations
• vCloud Director organization VDCs

Module 4: Organization VDC

• Organization VDC allocation models
• Recognize resource allocations for an organization
• Describe the network types available in vCloud Director (external, organization, vApp)
• Discuss the organization and vApp network traffic choices
• Examine the function of network pools

Module 5: Virtual Machines and vApps

• Discuss the use of virtual machines
• Design and manage vApps

Module 6: Catalog

• Create and manage catalogs
• Manage vApp templates

Module 7: Users and Role-Based Access

• 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

Module 8: Advanced Networking

• Describe the use and placement of NSX edge services gateways in relation to vCloud Director
• Review routing with the distributed logical router and edge services gateways in combination with vCloud Director
• Firewall management in vCloud Director with edge services gateways and the distributed firewall

Module 9: Resource Management and Monitoring

• Manage provider and organization VDCs
• Manage VMware vCenter Server® instances and VMware ESXi™ hosts
• Manage vSphere datastores
• Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level
• Monitor usage information at provider and organization VDCs
• Analyze vCloud Director logs
• Monitor vCloud Director environments with VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™ and VMware vRealize® Log Insight™
• Use VMware vRealize® Business™ for cost management

Module 10: Customer Onboarding and Hybrid Cloud

• Tenant layer 2 VPN access
• Tenant SSL VPN access
• Review options for external connectivity with VPN
• Import existing infrastructure managed by vCenter Server into vCloud Director 

• Use vCloud Director Extender for hybrid cloud setup and onboarding

Module 11: vCloud Availability for vCloud Director

• Architecture for vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Prerequisites of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director
• Implementation of vCloud Availability for vCloud Director

Module 12: vCloud Director Installation

• vCloud Director network, hardware, and software requirements
• vCloud Director setup overview
• vCloud Director cell design
• Install and configure the vCloud Director database (Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle database, or PostgreSQL)
• Create SSL certificates
• Configure VMware NSX® Manager™ for a new vCloud Director installation
• Install and configure an AMQP broker
• Download and install the VMware public key
• Use and set up vCloud Director federation

Module 13: vCloud Director API and Metadata

• Describe tools to access the API of vCloud Director
• Use of REST API in VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™
• Describe access to vCloud Director using VMware PowerCLI™
• Create and update metadata on objects

Module 14: (Optional) vCloud Director Upgrade

• vCloud Director upgrade overview
• Upgrade prerequisites
• NSX requirements
• Additional information
• Best practice for upgrades