VMware vCloud Director: Tenant Operations
Price
$5,300.00 (AUD)
Duration
5 Days
Modality
Live Online
Course code
EDU-VCDTO10-OE
Course Overview
In this five-day course, you focus on configuring and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 10.x Tenant Operations. You learn about self-service provisioning, the creation of virtual datacenter networks, vApp and its networks, catalog services that include predefined virtual machines (VMs), and on-demand VMware NSX® networks.
This course covers integrating VMware vCloud Director® with VMware vRealize® OrchestratorTM and the use of VMware vCloud® Availability. You learn how to manage multisite, cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director. You also learn how to use Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) for tenant users of vCloud Director.
This course also discusses how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations ManagerTM.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Understand role-based access control and custom roles
- Manage vCloud Director organizations’ VDC and vApps
- Manage VMs using sizing and placement policies
- Create and share vCloud Director catalogs and vApp templates
- Describe and use CPOM to view dedicated VMware vSphere® datacenters in the tenant portal
- Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of NSX
- Configure the integration with vCloud Availability
- Transfer VM workloads from vSphere into and out of vCloud Director sites and between vCloud Director sites for
- customer onboarding
- Manage multisite deployment as a tenant administrator
- Know how to integrate vRealize Orchestrator and use the existing workflows
- Monitor vCloud Director using VMware vRealize® Operations ManagerTM
- Know the new features of vCloud Director 10.x tenant operations
Target Audience
Experienced service provider customers, system engineers, data center administrators, and tenant administrators with experience in a managed services environment
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere® 6.7 U2
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.6
- VMware NSX® Data Center for vSphere® 6.46 • VMware NSX-TTM Data Center 2.4
- VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5
- VMware vCloud Availability 3.5
Target Audience
Experienced service provider customers, system engineers, data center administrators, and tenant administrators with experience in a managed services environment
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage
Product Alignment
- VMware vSphere® 6.7 U2
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator 7.6
- VMware NSX® Data Center for vSphere® 6.46 • VMware NSX-TTM Data Center 2.4
- VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.5
- VMware vCloud Availability 3.5
Module Breakdown - For a course module breakdown click here
Module 1
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 2
Introduction to vCloud Director, Service Provider, and Tenant Portal
- Explain vCloud Director concepts
- Outline the preconfigured tasks by the service provider
- Describe and understand the tenant portal use cases
Module 3
User Access Control
- Discuss users and groups
- Understand the custom roles
- List the user roles
- Discuss role-based access control (RBAC)
Module 4
Working with Virtual Machines
- Create a standalone VM
- Perform VM operations
- Manage VM properties
Module 5
Working with vApps
- Create VMs in a vApp
- Manage catalogs
- Share catalogs
- Discuss vApp templates
Module 6
Organization VDC Networking
- Understand organization VDC networks
- List the types of organization VDC networks
- Describe the edge gateway services
- List the enhanced NSX-T supported features from the tenant portal
Module 7
vApp Networking
- Create and manage vApp networks
- List the various types of vApp networks
- Discuss vApp fencing
- Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks
Module 8
vCloud Availability
- Discuss vCloud Availability and its integration with vCloud Director
- Migrate VMs from cloud to cloud
- Migrate VMs from on-premises to cloud
Module 9
vCloud Extensibility
- Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with vCloud Director
- Work with swagger, vCloud API, vCD CLI, and VMware PowerCLITM
Module 10
Multisite Deployment and CPOM
- Discuss multisite deployments
- Configure cross VDC networking
- Define SDDC
- Familiarize with SDDC and SDDC proxy
- Use enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal
Module 11
Monitoring and Managing vCloud Director Resources
- Monitor resources from the tenant portal
- Monitor vCloud Director objects with vRealize Operations Manager
- Understand dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reports
Module 12
vCloud Director 10.x Tenant New Feature
- Describe name disk feature
- Describe VM sizing and VM placement policies
- Describe object storage extension