vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage
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Goals
In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing VMware Cloud Director® 10.3. You learn about workload provisioning, the creation of organizations, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predefined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX-T™ Data Center networks.
This course also covers interfacing VMware Cloud Director with other systems and the integration and use of VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ for VMware Cloud Director. You learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines (VMs). This course also discusses how to monitor various VMware Cloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations™.
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
Duration
5 days (8h/day)
Requirements
This course requires completion of the following course and equivalent knowledge:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8] or equivalent knowledge
The following experience is helpful:
- Working at the Linux command line
- Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts
Contents
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™
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Extensibility and UI Additional Features
- Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, data exporter, keyboard shortcuts, and quick search
- Understand vcd-cli supported commands
- Discuss various vcd-cli tools
- 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
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Training rooms
ALEF operates with training rooms match submarine's style to unexpected, unusual while still being smart and available to work in. We have several type of rooms for small groups and up to larger rooms with modern technical equipment and supportive technologies we provide.
We also deliver the high-quality multimedia sharing for efficient, effective virtual communication on a global scale. In the Competence Center is also available Spark Board. Cisco Sparkboard integrates the most common tools needed for team collaboration in physical meeting rooms into a single elegant device. It also combines white board, video or audio conference features.
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Training rooms – Prague
Team of lecturers
Our team - consisting of more than 50 instructors - offers a full range of technological knowledge in the field of routing, switching, security, collaboration and data centers. The expertise of instructors is evidenced by a range of top-level international certifications.
The uniqueness of our lecturers lies mainly in their extensive experience in connection with each project, allowing them to respond very flexibly to any question or suggestion from students, and to pass on their practical knowledge to the participants of these courses. Thanks to the synergy of the company’s reliable operation and many years of experience, we have been very flexible in responding to the changes prepared in the Cisco field, so we can guarantee you a wide range of certified courses that enable you and your colleagues to acquire the necessary know-how for future certification tests.
Karel Pouzar
Senior Solution Architect - Cloud
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate, AWS Authorized Instructor Champion Cisco CCIE R&S #20198, CCNP Ent, CCNP SP
Karel is a Senior Solution Architect for Cloud at Alef. He has long been involved in infrastructure and its virtualization in large networks and data centres of service providers. In recent years, he has been involved in the design and implementation of hybrid Cloud solutions.
He is an avid user and promoter of new technologies, which he capitalizes on as a Cloud Ambassador for the Expert Centre's Infrastructure Team. At the Alef Group, he is the lead trainer for AWS training, where he’s the AWS Authorised Instructor Champion.
Jan Kopřiva
Team lead CSIRT - incident response and offensive security
Multiple certifications & M.Sc. in Cyber security, Multiple certifications & B.Sc. in Education and teaching, Author of numerous security courses
Jan Kopřiva is the team lead of an incident response and offensive security team at ALEF Group and an Incident Handler with the renowned SANS Internet Storm Center. Jan started his career as a blue teamer, but slowly moved into offensive security as well. His current professional interests lie mainly in the areas of security, which traditionally fall within the purview of purple teams. He has authored multiple security courses as well as numerous research papers and articles focused on different aspects of cyber security and he regularly speaks at security conferences and other industry events.
Jan Janovic
Team Leader, DC-NET
Double CCIE DC|R&S #55858, CCNP DevNet, CCSI #35493, AWS Solution Architect and Developer Associate
Honza is a Datacenter Networking Teamleader at Alef. Together with his team, he specializes in a variety of networking solutions, primarily built on the Cisco Nexus switch platform - traditional vPC architecture, VXLAN BGP EVPN factories, and Cisco ACI. He also focuses on analytical tools, programmability and the automation of all these solutions, as well as their integration with the public cloud. In 2020, he became the Alef Group's first holder of the new CCNP DevNet certification, and also received the DevNet500 award for being among the top 500 DevNet certified engineers worldwide. In 2021 he became the only Double CCIE holder in the ALEF group, and the first in the world to pass any new version of the CCIE exam following changes to Cisco's certification program in February 2020. Honza has logged more than 1,000 hours in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
Jiří Šolc
Enterprise/Solution Architect
CCDA, CCNP Collaboration, AWS, ITIL, TOGAF, ArchiMate, IPMA
Jirka works at Alef as an Enterprise/Solution Architect, and is responsible for the comprehensive development of ICT solutions for key customers. He has over 10 years’ experience in technical, consulting and management practice. He has been involved in the design, implementation and management of a number of infrastructure, security, communications and digital transformation projects.
His specialties include the interconnection of the business and ICT worlds through Enterprise and Solution Architecture. This involves extensive communication with people in different roles across roles and organisational structures, the analysis of complex ICT environments, the preparation of projects including advocacy for their benefits, budgets, and interdependencies, and overall strategic ICT development planning. You will see him regularly speaking at conferences and workshops.
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