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
- 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
- Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts, and quick search
- Understand vcd-cli supported command
- 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