In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director 10.6. You will learn how to set up and manage VMware Cloud Director, including the provisioning of workloads, creating organizations and Virtual Data Centers (VDCs), and use catalog services that include predefined virtual machines. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines and vApps.
Cloud architects
Systems engineers
Data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Describe the architecture and main components of VMware Cloud Director
Explain the features and benefits of VMware Cloud Director
Deploy high availability VMware Cloud Director cluster
Create VMware Cloud Director provider virtual data centers and organizations
Configure and create vApps and VMs
Create users and role-based access control
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director networks
Create VM sizing and placement policies
Discuss additional features of VMware Cloud Director
Course Introduction
Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration
Describe VMware Cloud Director features and functions
Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture
List the prerequisites for deploying VMware Cloud Director
Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment
Describe various VMware Cloud Director deployment methods and options
Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
Back up and restore a VMware Cloud Director appliance
Describe the appliance failover methods
Describe failover, switchover, and promote in the VMware Cloud Director appliance
Monitor the VMware Cloud Director appliance services and cluster status
VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration
Describe the provider portal
Define a provider VDC, an organization, and organization VDCs
Configure VMware Cloud Director objects from the VMware Cloud Director provider portal as a system administrator
Describe provider VDCs and their role in resource allocation
Explain the configuration of resource pools and storage containers in a provider VDC
Configure organizations and access the tenant portal
Identify allocation models for organization VDCs
Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of allocation models
Describe how organization VDCs work
VMware Cloud Director User, Roles, and Quota Management
Configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
Enable a SAML and an OIDC identity provider
Identify the various types of users in VMware Cloud Director
Create and import users from the provider portal and the tenant portal
Describe the options for managing users and groups
Describe how role-based access control works in VMware Cloud Director
Explain provider roles
Recognize the function of the rights bundles
Explain global roles and their usage in VMware Cloud Director
Create custom tenant roles
Explain Quota Management and its use cases
Configure VMware Cloud Director as an OpenID Provider Proxy Server
VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps
Explain standalone VMs and VMs in a vApp
Describe VM actions
List the properties of a VM
Create and manage VMs
Explain vApp deployment methods
Explain vApp actions and functions
Describe VM encryption and how VMs and disks are encrypted
Describe named disks and shared named disks
Create multiple snapshots for vApps and VMs
Describe Auto Scale Groups and their advantages
Explain VM placement, VM sizing, and vGPU policies
Describe NVIDIA vGPU and NVIDIA AI Enterprise
Explain the NVIDIA GRID vGPU requirements
Implement vGPU in VMware Cloud Director
Managing Catalogs and Templates
Describe Content Hubb and their advantages
Create and manage VMware Marketplace Resource
Create and manage External Helm Chart Repository Resource
Explain the purpose and use of catalogs
Create and manage catalogs
Describe, how catalogs are shared between and within organizations
Describe vApp templates and their advantages
Create and manage the vApp template
Create and manage the organization VDC template
VMware Cloud Director Networking
Discuss the integration of VMware Cloud Director with VMware NSX
Describe VMware Cloud Director networks
Perform provider networking tasks
Discuss organization VDC networks
List the types of organization VDC networks
Discuss vApp networks
List the various types of vApp networks
Describe the segment profile template
Configure edge gateway services
Sub-Provider in VMware Cloud Director
Explain the concept of Sub-Providers
Explain the configuration of resources to a SubProvider
Manage a Sub-Provider organization
Use the Sub-Provider organization to configure identity provider and manage users
Configure quotas and policies to a Sub-Provider • Perform common catalog tasks in the Sub-Provider organization
Perform common networking tasks in the SubProvider organization
VMware Avi Load Balancer
Discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer components
Configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer in the provider portal
Configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer in the tenant portal
Edge Data Center Group Networking
Describe Data Center Group network
Create Data Center Group
Add a NSX Edge gateway to a Data Center Group • Activate Distributed Firewall for a Data Center Group
Configure Data Center Groups using NSX Federation
Additional Features of VMware Cloud Director
Explain the purpose and features of advisories.
Describe the Guided Tour feature and its use cases
Configure VMware Cloud Director branding
Explain the Solution Add-Ons feature in Vmware Cloud Director
Briefly discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with the following solutions:
VMware Cloud Director Availability
VMware Cloud Director App Launchpad
VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension
VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
VMware vCloud Usage Meter
VMware Aria Operations for Logs
VMware Aria Operations
VMware Chargeback
VMware Aria Automation
VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions
VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
VMware Workspace ONE
This course requires completion of the following course and equivalent knowledge:
