LUMIFY VMware Cloud Director App User Guide

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

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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.
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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

The s upply of this cours e by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Pleas e read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this cours e, as enrolment in the cours e is conditional on acceptance of thes e terms and conditions.
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