VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V10.3] for Partners

;Cloud architects, systems engineers, datacenter 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:
• ; Deploy VMware Cloud Director
• ; Manage VMware Cloud Director to meet the service provider needs
• ; Create and manage VMware Cloud Director organizations and vApps to fulfill business needs
• ; Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
• ; Transfer virtual machine workloads from VMware vSphere® into and out of VMware Cloud Director
• ; Configure networking for organizations and vApps with the help of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center
• ; Managing resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console and using VMware vRealize® Operations ;Manager™
• ; Enabling VM and Named Disk Encryption ;
• ; Creating VM sizing and placement policies
• ; Understand vApps and VM operations and actions

Completion of the following courses and equivalent knowledge is required:
• ; VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.x] or equivalent knowledge

The following experience is helpful:
• ; Working at the Linux command line
• ; Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts

1 ; Course Introduction
• ; Introductions and course logistics
• ; Course objectives

2 ; Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Design
• ; Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
• ; Discuss VMware offerings for cloud-based services
• ; Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
• ; Discuss VMware Validated Design™
• ; Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC using VMWare
; ; Cloud Foundation™

3 ; VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration
• ; Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
• ; Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
• ; Discuss failover mechanisms (automatic and manual) with VMware Cloud Director cells
• ; Define switchover, promote, and fencing options of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
• ; Understand the VMware Cloud Director appliance enhancements

4 ; VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration
• ; Describe how the compute resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director
• ; Describe how storage is provided to VMware Cloud Director
• ; Configure and manage storage for Virtual Datacenters (VDCs)
• ; Briefly discuss network pools, external networks, and Tier-0 Gateways
• ; Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with vCenter Server® and NSX-T Data Center
• ; Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
• ; Understand organization policies
• ; Explain how to access an organization using various portals
• ; Understand organization VDC
• ; Discuss what is Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning
• ; Understand the use cases of Allocation Models

5 ; VMware Cloud Director User, Roles and Quota Management
• ; Discuss user-bundle
• ; Describe role-based access
• ; Explain custom roles and rights
• ; Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
• ; Discuss OIDC authentication methods
• ; Describe SAML identity provider

6 ; VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps
• ; Understand standalone VMs
• ; Discuss the VM managing operations
• ; Explain VM properties
• ; Discuss deployment methods of vApps
• ; Discuss the vApp managing operations
• ; Discuss the vApp lease policies
• ; Understand the vApps and VM actions
• ; Explain vApp and VM badges

7 ; VMware Cloud Director Content Libraries
• ; Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organization
• ; Define catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organizations
• ; Explain medias in VMware Cloud Director and its usage
• ; Discuss vApp templates
• ; Understand vApp template operations
• ; Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
• ; Discuss organization VDC templates

8 ; VMware Cloud Director Networking
• ; Discuss organization VDC networks
• ; List the types of organization VDC networks
• ; Describe the edge gateway services
• ; Explore the services offered by the edge gateway
• ; Discuss sub-allocation IP pool and its use cases
• ; Discuss DHCP, NAT, load balancer, and firewall services on the edge gateway
• ; Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT use cases
• ; Explain routing and distributed firewall services
• ; Discuss vApp networks
• ; List the various types of vApp networks
• ; Discuss routed, isolated, and direct vApp networks

9 ; VMware Cloud Director Storage and Compute
• ; Describe named disks and shared named disks
• ; Demonstrate how to attach and detach a named disk and a shared named disk
• ; Describe methods of sharing the named disk
• ; Discuss the implications of deleting VMs that have an attached named disk
• ; Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted
• ; Explain the storage policy capabilities
• ; Demonstrate how VM sizing and placement policies are published
• ; Discuss vCenter server and VMware Cloud Director IOPS storage policies usage
• ; Discuss how to enable and use the storage IOPS limitation in VMware Cloud Director
• ; Describe the storage policy supported entities

10 ; Extensibility and UI Additional Features
• ; Briefly discuss enhanced CPOM through the tenant portal
• ; Briefly discuss VMware Cloud Availability plugin for VMware Cloud Director portal
• ; Integrate vRealize Orchestrator with VMware Cloud Director
• ; Execute VMware Cloud Director workflows using vRealize Orchestrator
• ; Briefly discuss Container Service Extension
• ; Briefly explain the main usage and purpose of the NSX migration of VMware Cloud Director tool
• ; Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts, and quick ;search
• ; Understand vcd-cli supported commands
• ; Discuss various vcd-cli tools

11 ; VMware Cloud Director Resource Monitoring
• ; Identify log locations for VMware Cloud Director
• ; Manage vSphere and cloud resources from VMware Cloud Director
• ; Understand monitoring of objects from VMware Cloud Director portals
• ; Briefly introduce vRealize Operations Manager
• ; Integrate VMware Cloud Director with vRealize Operations Manager
• ; Configure VMware Cloud Director Management Pack
• ; Understand dashboard, metrics, alerts, alert definition, and reports