VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage V10.4 (VCDICM104)

  • Duration: 5 days (40 hours)
  • Date: on request

VMware Cloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage V10.4 (VCDICM104)

This course will help:
  • Gain the knowledge and skills needed to install, configure, and manage VMware Cloud Director10.4
  • Understand the interaction of VMware Cloud Director with other systems, integration and use of VMware vRealize Orchestrator for VMware Cloud Director, with information about the various networks that a system administrator can configure and use when working with virtual machines
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Course syllabus:

  • 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
  • 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
  • Showcase VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware vCenter Server and VMware NSX
  • Describe how the compute resources are provided to VMware Cloud Director
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Discuss provider gateway, external networks
  • Describe edge gateway
  • Discuss organization VDC networks
  • List the types of organization VDC networks
  • e IOPS limitation in VMware Cloud Director
  • Demonstrate VM sizing and placement in VMware Cloud Director
  • Discuss vGPU implementation in VMware Cloud Director
  • Describe the usage and functionality of advisories
  • VMware Cloud Director App Launchpad
  • VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension
  • VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
  • VMware vCloud Usage Meter
  • VMware Aria Operations
  • VMware Chargeback
  • VMware Aria Automation
  • VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions
  • VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
  • VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1
  • VMware vSphere 8.0

You will learn:

  • 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

Pre-requisites:

This course assumes that students have knowledge of the VMware vSphere course: installation, configuration, management [V7.x], experience with the Linux operating system.

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