Objective

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
• Understand the features and benefits of VMware Cloud Director
• Deploy the 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

Outline

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Software-Defined Data Center and VMware Validated Solution

• Discuss VMware Validated Solution
• Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
• Discuss multitenancy with VMware Cloud Director
• Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment on the SDDC using VMware Cloud Foundation™

3 VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration

• Describe the VMware Cloud Director cell and server group
• Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
• Demonstrate backing up and restoring a VMware Cloud Director appliance
• Discuss VMware Cloud Director Appliance Clustering
• Discuss failover mechanisms (automatic and manual) with VMware Cloud Director cells
• Define the switchover, and promote options of the VMware Cloud Director appliance

4 VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration

• Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware vCenter Server® and VMware NSX
• 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 Data Centers (VDCs)
• Discuss network pools, external networks, and provider gateways
• Describe VMware Cloud Director organizations
• Understand organization policies
• Explain how to access an organization using various portals
• Understand the use cases of Allocation Models
• Understand organization VDC
• Discuss Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning

5 VMware Cloud Director User, Roles, and Quota Management

• Discuss rights bundle
• Describe role-based access
• Explain custom roles and rights
• Describe and configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
• Discuss OIDC integration with VMware Cloud Director
• Discuss configuring the SAML identity provider in VMware Cloud Director
• Discuss API Access Token and Service Accounts
• Explain Quota Management and its use cases

6 VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps

• Understand standalone VMs
• Discuss deployment methods of virtual machines
• Explain VM properties
• Discuss deployment methods of vApps
• Discuss the vApp lease policies
• Understand the vApps and VM actions
• Explain vApp and VM badges
• Demonstrate auto scaling groups

7 VMware Cloud Director Content Libraries

• Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog
• Discuss catalog management and sharing catalogs
• Understand media files in VMware Cloud Director and their usage
• Discuss vApp templates
• Understand vApp template operations
• Discuss organization VDC templates
• Discuss Fast Cross vCenter Server vApp Instantiation Utilizing Shared Storage

8 VMware Cloud Director Networking

• Discuss provider gateway, external networks
• Describe edge gateway
• Discuss organization VDC networks
• List the types of organization VDC networks
• Discuss vApp networks
• List the various types of vApp networks

9 Edge Gateway Services and Additional Networking Features

• List the edge gateway services
• Discuss DHCP, NAT, and firewall services on the edge gateway
• Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT use cases
• Explain routing and distributed firewall services
• Understand IP space and its types
• Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
• Describe the segment profile template

10 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
• Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted
• 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
• Demonstrate VM sizing and placement in VMware Cloud Director
• Discuss vGPU implementation in VMware Cloud Director

11 Additional Features of VMware Cloud Director

• Describe the usage and functionality of advisories
• Demonstrate quick search
• Discuss guided tours and use cases
• Discuss Transfer Server Storage Monitoring
• Demonstrate the VMware Cloud Director branding themes
• Explain the Solution Add-Ons feature in Vmware Cloud Director

12 VMware Cloud Director Integrated Solutions

• 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
• Terraform
• VMware Workspace ONE