LUMIFY VMware Cloud Director App User Guide

: June 16, 2024
: LUMIFY

Table of Contents

VMware Cloud Director App
WHY STUDY THIS COURSE
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
COURSE SUBJECTS
WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?
PREREQUISITES
References
Read User Manual Online (PDF format)
Download This Manual (PDF format)

CLOUD COMPUTING AND VIRTUALISATION
VMware Cloud Director: Install,
Configure, Manage

VMware Cloud Director App

VMWARE AT LUMIFY WORK
VMware is the world leader in server virtualisation technolog ies. Lumify Work is a VMware Education Reseller Partner (VERP), offering training in vSphere, vRealize, vSAN, Horizon, NSX-T, Workspace ONE, Carbon Black, and other VMware technolog ies and
platforms.

LENGTH
5 days| PRICE (Excl. GST)
NZD 6000| VERSION
10.4
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WHY STUDY THIS COURSE

In this f ive-day course, you focus on installing, conf iguring, and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director™ 10.4. You will learn about workload provisioning, the creat ion of organisat ions, virtual data centers (VDCs), catalog services that include predef ined virtual machines, and on-demand VMware NSX-T™ Data Center networks. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organisat ion administrator can conf igure and use with virtual machines (VMs).
This course also covers the UI enhancements of VMware Cloud Director, the new licensing model and UI enhancements with NSX Advanced Load Balancer™, and the L2 and L3 VPN enhancements in VMware Cloud Director. You will learn about def ining segment prof ile templates to organisat ion VDC networks and vApp networks and conf iguring DHCP, stat ic routes, and no distributed rout ing in VMware Cloud Director. This course explains how to integrate and implement vGPU in VMware Cloud Director as well as how to use API access tokens and service accounts for programmat ic access to VMware Cloud Director.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following object ives:

Deploy VMware Cloud Director
Manage VMware Cloud Director to meet the service provider needs
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director organisat ions and vApps to fulf ill business needs
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
Conf igure networking for organisat ions and vApps with the help of NSX-T Data Center

My instructor was great being able to put scenarios into real world instances that related to my specific situation.
I was made to feel welcome from the moment I arrived and the ability to sit as a group outside the classroom to discuss our situations and our goals was extremely valuable.
I learnt a lot and felt it was important that my goals by attending this course were met.
Great job Lumify Work team.
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Manage resources from the VMWare Cloud Director console
Enable VM and Named Disk
Create VM siz ing and placement policies
Create vApps and perform VM operat ions and act ions
Manage vGPU resources with VMware Cloud Director
Discuss how VMware Cloud Director can be integrated with other solut ions

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We can also deliver and customise this training course for larger groups saving your organisation time, money and resources.
For more information, please contact us on 0800 835 835.

COURSE SUBJECTS

1. Course Int roduct ion

Introduct ions and course logist ics
Course object ives

2. Sof t ware-Def ined Dat a Cent er and VMware Va lidat ed So lut ion

Def ine software-def ined data center (SDDC)
Discuss VMware offerings for cloud-based services
Discuss the deployment opt ions for VMware Cloud Director
Discuss VMware Validated Solut ion
Recognise the design considerat ions when creat ing a cloud environment on the SDDC using VMware Cloud Foundat ion™

3. VMware Cloud Direct or Deployment and Conf igurat ion

Discuss the deployment opt ions for VMware Cloud Director
Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
Discuss failover mechanisms (automat ic and manual) with VMware
Cloud Director cells
Def ine the switchover, promote, and fencing opt ions of the VMware
Cloud Director appliance
Understand the VMware Cloud Director appliance enhancements

4. VMware Cloud Direct or Provider Conf igurat ion

Describe how the compute resources are provided to VMware Cloud
Director
Describe how storage is provided to VMware Cloud Director
Conf igure and manage storage for Virtual Data Centers (VDCs)
Discuss network pools, external networks, and T ier-0 gateways
Showcase VMware Cloud Director integrat ion with VMware vCenter
Server® and NSX-T Data Center
Describe VMware Cloud Director organisat ions
Understand organisat ion policies
Explain how to access an organisat ion using various portals
Understand organisat ion VDC
Discuss Linked Clone and Fast Provisioning
Understand the use cases of Allocat ion Models

5. VMware Cloud Direct or User, Ro les, and Quot a Management

Discuss user bundle
Describe role-based access
Explain custom roles and rights
Describe and conf igure LDAP integrat ion with Act ive Directory
Discuss OIDC authent icat ion methods
Describe SAML ident ity provider
Discuss API Access Token and Service Accounts
Explain Quota Management and its use cases

6. VMware Cloud Direct or Virt ua l Machines and vApps

Understand standalone VMs
Discuss the VM managing operat ions
Explain VM propert ies
Discuss deployment methods of vApps
Discuss the vApp managing operat ions
Discuss the vApp lease policies
Understand the vApps and VM act ions
Explain vApp and VM badges

7. VMware Cloud Direct or Cont ent Libraries

Explain the purpose of catalogs and how to create a catalog organisat ion
Def ine catalog management and sharing catalogs inside and between organisat ions
Explain media in VMware Cloud Director and its usage
Discuss vApp templates
Understand vApp template operat ions
Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualisat ion Format (OVF)
Discuss organisat ion VDC templates
Discuss Fast Cross vCenter Server vApp Instant iat ion Ut ilising Shared Storage

8. VMware Cloud Direct or Net working

Discuss organisat ion VDC networks
List the types of organisat ion VDC networks
Describe the edge gateway services
Explore the services offered by the edge gateway
Discuss the sub-allocat ion IP pool and its use cases
Discuss DHCP, NAT, load balancer, and f irewall services on the edge gateway
Discuss SNAT, DNAT, NO SNAT, and NO DNAT use cases
Explain rout ing and distributed f irewall services
Discuss vApp networks
List the various types of vApp networks

9. VMware Cloud Direct or St orage 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 implicat ions of delet ing VMs that have an attached named disk
Discuss how VMware Cloud Director VMs and disks are encrypted
Explain the storage policy capabilit ies
Demonstrate how VM siz ing 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 limitat ion in VMware Cloud Director
Describe the storage policy-supported ent it ies
Discuss vGPU in VMware Cloud Director

10. Additlonal UI Features and Integrated Solutions

Explain custom advisories, global search, guided tours, keyboard shortcuts, and quick search
Demonstrate the new branding and theming experience
Briefly discuss how VMware Cloud Director can be integrated with other solut ions

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?

Cloud architects, systems engineers, data center administrators, and cloud administrators with experience in managed services or managing a service provider environment.

PREREQUISITES

This course requires complet ion of the following course:

VMware vSphere: Install, Conf igure, Manage [V8.x] or equivalent knowledge

The following experience is helpful:

Working at the Linux command line
Substant ial knowledge of general networking concepts

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