VMware vCloud Director: Tenant Operations [v10.x]
In this five-day course, you focus on configuring and managing VMware vCloud Director® for Service Providers 10.x Tenant Operations. You learn about self-service provisioning, creating virtual data center networks, vApps and related networks, catalog services including pre-built virtual machines (VMs), and on-demand VMware NSX® networks.
The course covers the integration of VMware vCloud Director® with VMware vRealize® Orchestrator™ and the use of VMware vCloud® Availability. You learn how to manage multi-site and cross-VDC networking for vCloud Director. You also learn how to use the Central Point of Management (CPOM) to define a software-defined datacenter (SDDC) for vCloud Director tenant users. The course also demonstrates how to monitor various vCloud Director objects using VMware vRealize® Operations Manager™.
COD: VCDTO10
CATEGORY: VMware
Teaching methodology
The course includes educational laboratories in which each student will be able to work in order to complete training exercises that will provide practical experience in using the instrument, for each of the topics covered during the course.
Who should participate
Experienced customers of service providers, systems engineers, data center administrators and tenant administrators with experience in a managed services environment
Prerequisites
This course requires completion of one of the following courses:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage
Outgoing knowledge/skills
By the end of the course, you should be able to achieve the following objectives:
- Understand role-based access control and custom roles
- Manage vCloud Director organization VDCs and vApps
- Manage virtual machines using sizing and placement criteria
- Create and share vCloud Director catalogs and vApp templates.
- Describe and use CPOM to view dedicated VMware vSphere® datacenters in the tenant portal.
- Configure networking for organizations and vApps with help from NSX.
- Configure integration with vCloud Availability
- Transfer VM workloads from vSphere to and from vCloud Director sites and between vCloud Director sites for customer onboarding.
- Manage multisite deployment as a tenant administrator
- Know how to integrate vRealize Orchestrator and use existing workflows.
- vCloud Director monitoring with VMware vRealize® Operations ManagerTM
- Understand the new tenant operations features of vCloud Director 10.x
Educational program
1 Introduction to the course
- Introduction and logistics of the course
- Objectives of the course
2 Introduzione a vCloud Director, Service Provider e Tenant Portal
- Explain the concepts of vCloud Director
- Explain the tasks preconfigured by the service provider
- Describe and understand tenant portal use cases.
3 User access control
- Discuss users and groups
- Understand custom roles
- List user roles
- Discuss role-based access control (RBAC)
4 Working with virtual machines
- Create a standalone virtual machine
- Perform operations on virtual machines
- Manage virtual machine properties
5 Work with vApps
- Create virtual machines in a vApp
- Manage catalogues
- Share catalogs
- Discuss vApp templates
6 Organization VDC network
- Understand your organization’s VDC networks
- List the types of organization VDC networks
- Describe edge gateway services
- List the advanced NSX-T features supported by the tenant portal.
7 vApp network
- Create and manage vApp networks
- List the various types of vApp networks
- Discuss vApp shields
- Discuss routed, isolated, and directed vApp networks.
8 Availability of vCloud
- Discuss vCloud Availability and its integration with vCloud Director.
- Migrate virtual machines from cloud to cloud
- Migration of virtual machines from on-premises to cloud
9 Extensibility of vCloud
- vRealize Orchestrator integration with vCloud Director
- Work with swagger, vCloud API, vCD CLI and VMware PowerCLI™.
10 Multisite Deployment and CPOM
- Discuss multisite deployments
- Cross-VDC network configuration
- Definition of SDDC
- Familiarize yourself with SDDC and SDDC proxies
- Use improved CPOM through the tenant portal
11 Monitor and Manage vCloud Director Resources
- Resource monitoring from the tenant portal
- Monitor vCloud Director objects with vRealize Operations Manager
- Understand dashboards, metrics, alerts and reports.
12 vCloud Director 10.x Tenant New feature
- Describe the functionality of the name disk
- Describe the sizing and placement criteria for virtual machines
- Describe the extension of object storage
Duration – 5 days
Delivery – in Classroom, On Site, Remote
PC and SW requirements:
- Internet connection
- Web browser, Google Chrome
- Zoom
Language
Trainer: Italiano
Labs: Inglese
Slides: Inglese
