LUMIFY WORK VMware Cloud Director Software User Guide

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

VMware Cloud Director Software

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

WHY STUDY THIS COURSE

In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, 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 ful fill business needs
Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
Configure networking for organisations and vApps with the help of NSX-T Data Center
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 actions
Manage vGPU resources with VMware Cloud Director
Discuss how VMware Cloud Director can be integrated with other solutions

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.

AMANDA NICOL
IT SUPPORT SERVICES MANAGER – HEALTH WORLD LIMITED

Lumify Work
Customised Training
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COURSE SUBJECTS

1. Course Int roduction
   ● Introduct ions and course logistics
   ● Course objectives

2. Software-Defined Dat a Center and VMware Validated Solution
   ● Define software-defined data center (SDDC)
   ● Discuss VM ware offerings for cloud-based services
   ● Discuss the deployment options for VMware Cloud Director
   ● Discuss VM ware Validated Solution
   ● Recognise the design considerations when creat ing 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 the switchover, promote, and fencing options of the VMware Cloud Director appliance
   ● Understand the VM ware 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 VM ware Cloud Director
   ● Configure and manage storage for Virtual Data Centers (VDCs)
   ● Discuss network pools, external networks, and Tier-O gateways
   ● Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware vCenter
   ● Server® and NSX-T Data Center
   ● Describe VMware Cloud Director organisations
   ● Understand organisation policies
   ● Explain how to access an organisation using various portals
   ● Understand organisation VDC
   ● Discuss 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
   ● 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 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 catalogues and how to create a catalogue organisation
   ● Define catalogue management and sharing catalogues inside and between organisations
   ● Explain media in VMware Cloud Director and its usage
   ● Discuss vApp templates
   ● Understand vApp template operations
   ● Describe the purpose and usage of Open Virtualisation Format (OVF)
   ● Discuss organisation VDC templates
   ● Discuss Fast Cross vCenter Server vApp Instantiation Utilising Shared Storage

8. VMware Cloud Director Networking
   ● Discuss organisation VDC networks
   ● List the types of organisation VDC networks
   ● Describe the edge gateway services
   ● Explore the services offered by the edge gateway
   ● Discuss the 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
   ● Explain routing and distributed firewall services
   ● Discuss vApp networks
   ● List the various types of 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
   ● Discuss vGPU in VMware Cloud Director

10. Additional Ul 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 solutions

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?

PREREQUISITES

This course requires completion of the following course:

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V8.x] or equivalent knowledge

The following experience is helpful:

• Working at the Linux command line
• Substantial knowledge of general networking concepts

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

• Lumify Work | Lumify Work AU
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• VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage | Lumify Work AU
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage | Lumify Work AU

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