vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage

Overview

After completing this course, you should understand the features and operation of vCloud Director and be able to do the following:

– Deploy vCloud Director.
– Manage vCloud Director to satisfy small private cloud business needs.
– Configure VMware vSphere® storage to enable multiple tiers in provider virtual datacenters.
– Create and manage vCloud Director organizations and VMware vSphere vApps (“vApps”) to satisfy business needs.
– Create and manage vCloud Director catalogs.
– Configure networking for organizations and vApps.
– Interface vCloud Director to Microsoft Active Directory servers.
– Understand the interactions between VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler clusters and vCloud Director.

 

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Course Details

Course Introduction
– Review course goals
– Review course objectives
– Review the course outline
– Recognize vCloud Director Essentials/Fundamentals course elements

VMware vCloud Director Architecture

– Describe how VMware products use the cloud computing approach

–  Review vCloud Director components and explain their functions
– Examine integration with other VMware products such as VMware vCenter Chargeback and VMware vCenter Operations Manager
– Determine the licensing needs

VMware vCloud Networking
– Describe the network types available in vCloud Director
– Discuss the organization and VMware vSphere vApp network traffic choices
– Describe the function of network
– Explain how to share content between organizations and vApps

VMware vCloud Providers
– Identify storage resources for vCloud Director
– Configure and manage storage for providers
– Examine provider space allocation to an organization
– Recognize VMware vSphere Storage vMotion issues
– Manage storage requirements for linked clones and shadow virtual machines

VMware vCloud Director Organizations
– Create and manage organizations
– Recognize resource allocations for an organization
– Create and manage catalogs

Basic Security
– Describe role-based access
– Create custom security roles
– Describe and configure LDAP integration with Microsoft Active Directory
– Describe single sign-on

Managing Cloud Resources
– Understand and identify how vSphere fulfills vCloud Director requests
– Manage provider and organization virtual datacenters

Managing VMware vSphere Resources
– Manage VMware vCenter Server instances
– Manage VMware ESX hosts
– Manage vSphere datastores
– Manage stranded items
– Configure and manage resource pools at the vSphere level

Monitoring VMware vCloud Components
– Monitor usage information at provider and organization virtual datacenters
–  Analyze vCloud Director logs to monitor vCloud Director cells

Organization Users
– Describe the catalog tasks available to organization users of various roles
– Describe the vApp tasks available to organization users of various roles

VMware vCloud Director Installation
– Describe the required prerequisites for a vCloud Director installation
– Install vCloud Director

 

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Prerequisites

– VMware vSphere: Install, Configure,Manage

– VMware vCloud Director:Essentials/Fundamentals

– Solid understanding of TCP

 

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